admitted to accessing 41 images of children<\/a>, including seven of the most serious type, and was given a six-month sentence, suspended for two years.<\/p>\nOn Wednesday, he launched a Substack blog offering “commentary and analysis” on issues such as current affairs and mental health.<\/p>\n
But Edwards has been criticised by some for “lacking remorse”.<\/p>\n
Responding to the criticism, Edwards said “those exercised by the piece might have missed the intent expressed” on the blog.<\/p>\n
Edwards, who was also placed on the sex offenders’ register for seven years, told the BBC he had expressed “sincere regret and remorse” in court in 2024, and in a public statement issued in March.<\/p>\n
Emma Jane Taylor, a campaigner and founder of grassroots charity Project 90-10, said: “To think he can simply return to a public platform and be received as though nothing has happened shows a staggering lack of awareness.”<\/p>\n
The 53-year-old, who is a survivor of child sexual abuse, works full time in the fitness and wellbeing sector and runs the organisation on a voluntary basis because she believes there is a need for “better awareness, better safeguarding, and better training”.<\/p>\n
Reacting to Edwards’ blog, she said: “I am deeply frustrated by this. Because of my personal trauma, I decided to speak out in my 40s. So many people are so afraid to have this conversation, so we don’t.<\/p>\n
“If it was the bloke next door, everyone would be up in arms about it. And I don’t doubt people will be, but some will say he deserves a second chance.<\/p>\n
“He is on the sex offenders’ register \u2013 that should not entitle him to a blog. We don’t want to hear from you, Huw,” she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Child sexual abuse campaigners have criticised disgraced ex-BBC News presenter Huw Edwards for his “inappropriate and disrespectful” choice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-660457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}