Child Groomer, Sexual Predator
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Leave them the **** alone..
Turing was prosecuted in 1952 for
homosexual acts. He accepted hormone treatment with
DES, a procedure commonly referred to as
chemical castration, as an alternative to prison. Turing died on 7 June 1954, 16 days before his 42nd birthday, from
cyanide poisoning. An inquest determined his death as a suicide, but it has been noted that the known evidence is also consistent with accidental poisoning.
Following a public campaign in 2009, the British Prime Minister
Gordon Brown made an
official public apology on behalf of the British government for "the appalling way [Turing] was treated".
Queen Elizabeth II granted a posthumous pardon in 2013. The term "
Alan Turing law" is now used informally to refer to a 2017 law in the United Kingdom that retroactively pardoned men cautioned or convicted under historical legislation that outlawed homosexual acts.
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