drawn criticism from child sexual abuse campaigners<\/a>.<\/p>\nIn recent posts, he said he felt “abhorrence” towards the offences he committed and admitted to, and stated that his sentence would become spent on 16 September.<\/p>\n
In an entry last month titled On Hatred, he also stated he was “not a child rapist” and that his “crime was to click on files sent to me by someone else”.<\/p>\n
But Cracroft, who says many other survivors have contacted her since she first discussed her own ordeal publicly, believes his crimes were of a serious nature and that he should not have entered the competition.<\/p>\n
“It’s very important for us to realise, as the digital world expands, so does the abuse of children, and Huw was found guilty of accessing paedophilia,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I think he should have reconciled himself to the fact that he has hurt a lot of people and he maybe needs to research it more. When he does something like this it has huge repercussions on their mental and emotional health.<\/p>\n
“Perhaps if he spoke to survivors, it might help him understand the effects these crimes have on victims.”<\/p>\n
She also called on the Eisteddfod to review their entry rules, where poets compete under a pseudonym.<\/p>\n
The National Eisteddfod said: “We have a process in place which ensures nobody, including the judges, know beforehand who has competed.<\/p>\n
“After each Eisteddfod, we have a period of appraisal to ensure our processes are appropriate – this year will be no exception.”<\/p>\n
In a statement – shown by Newyddion S4C to Cracroft, who agreed to it being published in full – Edwards said: “The poem was a tribute to my father. Nothing more or less than that. <\/p>\n
“There was no way on earth I was going to win the competition and I knew that. The poisonous narrative encouraged by the press two years ago needed correcting.”<\/p>\n
Addressing Cracroft’s criticisms, he added: “This wasn’t a poem for the sickeningly self-righteous Welsh speakers – Sera amongst them – who take advantage of every opportunity to speak unthinkingly on every subject under the sun.<\/p>\n
“She and her type are far too willing to ignore the damaging effects of mental ill health. In that, they are loyal to the heritage of London’s tabloid papers.”<\/p>\n
If you have been affected by the issues in this story, help and support is available at BBC Action Line<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newyddion S4C understands Edwards’ attempt fell far short of winning the competition, with his poem placed in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-726654","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\/726654","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=726654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}