A WOMAN whose nine-year-old son was attacked by a paedophile has joined calls for the introduction of what is being called a 'Sarah's law'.
The calls follow the kidnap and murder of eight-year-old Sarah Payne, a crime for which 42-year-old convicted sex attacker Roy Whiting was this month jailed for life at Lewes Crown Court, East Sussex.
The mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said convicted paedophiles should be forced to serve longer prison sentences, and that people living in the area they would go to on release should be given advance warning of the release dates.
"I can see the police point of view that some people might be hounded as a result," she said.
"But let's face it, Whiting was already on the sex offenders register and it didn't do any good did it? Something better than that is required."
Her son was a victim of 31-year-old paedophile Andrew Compton, of Lawrence Road, Chesterton, Cirencester, who in August was jailed for 10 years for acts of what Gloucester Crown Court Judge Gabriel Hutton called "the most appalling and disgusting depravity" against three children.
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