Talk:Robert Black (serial killer)

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This article needs a few names of places in there. Where was he from etc?

i changed 'renowned child killer' to 'infamous'...i dont think renowned is really the appropriate word.....

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I feel like this article needs some editing, specifically at the following points:

• "James Dreger was his bitch lover for life." (Early Life, end of 1st paragraph)
• "He developed an interest in seeing little girls undressing" (Early Life, second paragraph)
• "Black eventually got his first proper girlfriend" (First Crimes, second paragraph)

The article's tone just seems to be deliberately provocative, some points seem to be sensationalized and, in particular, the above lines have what seems to be a derisive tone to them. There is also no explanation of how this person got from Mobile, Alabama to England. One remains slightly confused on this point. I'll try to do some research and see if I can update this article, but it would be really great if someone who knew more about this than I could at least glance over it and see if most of the stuff in here is correct. Submitting to the clean-up list.

Una sola 07:14, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wyre?

"...Black told Wyre..." is the only mention of Wyre anywhere in the article. Who? —Tamfang 17:49, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Ray Wyre is an expert in Child Protection, director of Ray Wyre Associates an Independent Child Protection consultancy that tries to rehabilitate paedophiles. This section looks like it was cut and pasted from the Crime Library article. --Epocalypse2 10:18, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Claimed sexual awareness

"Black developed a sexual awareness at an early age. He claims to have compared genitalia with a girl about the age of five."

Now that's normal for kids! I think it's ridiculous to put that in here. 61.17.202.175 17:06, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

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