SIR,

I am the eldest of four children, aged 15, 14, 10 and seven, and we have grown up reading the Monmouthshire Beacon. We often have an issue on the kitchen table to read over breakfast, and it is, of course, available in shops all over town. Monmouth's news is, in general, pleasant to read.

Therefore upon reading last week's issue (Wednesday 17th July) I was absolutely disgusted to find that you had not only published, on the front cover, explicit details of a man's abhorrent offences, but also essentially advertised a website dedicated to them.

I do not want my seven-year-old sister to know that such things as (and forgive me, but apparently they are appropriate to publish, and describe) oral sex, bestiality and child porn, exist. Nor do I want my brothers or sister Googling the website you mentioned.

In publishing these details you have potentially opened a child's eyes to things they need not know about for many years yet. I am 15 and I am aware of his repulsive world, but I look back with joy that my childhood was untainted by the knowledge of anything remotely sexually perverted.

Ellie Ashton

(Monmouth)