Thomas Victor O'Carroll (born 1945) is a British writer (with dual Irish/British citizenship) and pro-paedophile advocate. O'Carroll is a former chairman of the now disbanded Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) and was at one time a prominent member of the International Paedophile and Child Emancipation (now known as Ipce). During the 1970s, O'Carroll lobbied for the legalisation of sexual activities between adults and children, as well as against the criminalisation of child pornography, in the United Kingdom. He has been imprisoned for conspiring to corrupt public morals (1981) and distribution of child pornography (2006). In 2016, O'Carroll attempted to join the Labour Party but was expelled. Source: Wikipedia (en)