[Nate]

My theory is that paedophiles had a screwed up childhood so they want to relive it by 'loving' a vicarious replacement. But what do I know, I'm just an engineer.

I did once have a conversation with a prison psychologist and she said one thing that stuck in my mind. If you take a few paedophiles and put them in a room with kids, they'll all head towards the same one. It's like they're wired up to spot the kids who can be exploited and (for want of a better word) seduced.

I did once stumble across a kiddie porn site, I don't remember how. It was just plain creepy, thinking what must have been done to convince these boys to strip off in front of a camera. And when I saw an adult (...) with a kid that couldn't have been older than six, I just felt ill. What made it worse is that the kid had a huge grin on his face, as if it were all one big game.

I closed the browser straight away and deleted everything from my Temporary Internet Files folder. I was terrified that I could have been tracked and one day I'd get a knock on the door from the cops with a warrant for my hard drive. To make it worse, about a year later I ran an undelete program that searched my hard drive for any deleted jpgs (long story) and it came up with those same pics, still hiding back there after all that time.

Dino, you did the right thing reporting the sites to the police. I've found out since that it's actually a law in Australia that you have to report any paedophilia site you find but I'd be buggered if I knew who to report it to.