Child Pornography

Janice’s Journal: Child Pornography Laws Should Protect, Not Prosecute Children

·August 29, 2019
·27 Comments

The highest state court in Maryland ruled yesterday that a teenage girl could be prosecuted for distributing “child pornography” because she shared a one-minute video in which she was engaged…

General News

United States v. Moorehead

·January 10, 2019
·12 Comments

The FBI accessed Playpen and verified that the website contained child pornography, then executed a search warrant at a North Carolina server hosting company that owned the IP address. The…

General News

RIT study: More than half of child pornography probationers had sexual contact with kids

·January 5, 2019
·30 Comments

More than half of the men on federal probation in western New York for child pornography possession had instances of "sexual contact with children that were previously unknown to legal…

National

Trump signs Hatch-sponsored child pornography victim assistance law

·December 10, 2018
·15 Comments

[deseretnews.com - 12/7/18] Child pornography victims could have better access to federal restitution under a bipartisan bill President Donald Trump signed into law Friday. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a key…

General News

PSA Child Porn Warning

·October 11, 2018
·28 Comments

A public awareness campaign to educate our young people as to what constitutes child pornography must begin now. The lives of too many young adults are being ruined due to…

National

MI: Man’s prison-made drawings of child sex acts qualify as pornography

·July 5, 2018
·19 Comments

A prisoner's hand-made drawings of child sex acts qualify as child pornography, according to a state Court of Appeals ruling. Full Article Opinion Opinion

National

OH: Man Faces 30 Years in Prison on Child Porn Charges for Taking Sexy Photos of 17-Year-Old Girlfriend When He was 20

·July 5, 2018
·8 Comments

A 27-year-old Cleveland man faces between 15 and 30 years in prison for allegedly producing child pornography. But no children were harmed by his actions: The man merely took consensual,…

General News

ACSOL Conference: Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Fellow to Speak

·May 20, 2018
·2 Comments

Guy Hamilton-Smith, a fellow at the Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Research Institute, will speak at the ACSOL conference on both June 15 and June 16. As a speaker, he…

International

Brazil: Arrests hundreds in massive crackdown on child porn

·May 18, 2018
·5 Comments

In just one day, Brazilian authorities went after 578 people on warrants for crimes of child pornography and sexual exploitation of minors. The massive raid is the largest ever in…

National

RI: My Turn: John R. Grasso: Destroying lives for childish mistakes

·April 19, 2018
·0 Comments

[providencejournal.com 4/18/18] Quicksand. That's what the Internet is for young people. It looks like solid ground but it isn't. It blends into the surroundings as though it was always there…

National

NJ: How the new ‘child erotica’ law might help stop sex predators

·March 16, 2018
·22 Comments

[nj.com] A new law that further defines child pornography and more heavily prosecutes those who distribute and possess it went into effect recently, and law enforcers are hoping it’ll help…

National

Unjust Sexual Offense Laws: Insanity and Hope

·March 11, 2018
·2 Comments

[criminallegalnews.org] Unjust Laws Over the past 25 years, the U.S. has developed a pernicious system of sexual offense laws, including increased sentences and public registries of offenders. Based largely on…

National

NJ: NJ child porn kingpin pleads guilty, experts say Megan’s Law cannot prevent sex abuse

·March 10, 2018
·8 Comments

[trentonian.com] TRENTON >> An Ocean County man who possessed over 36,000 videos and images of child pornography pleaded guilty Tuesday to distributing child pornography online. Anthony White, 31, of Lakewood,…

National

Best Buy defends practice of informing FBI about child porn it finds

·March 7, 2018
·4 Comments

[arstechnica.com] years Nearly 200 pages of documents released Tuesday by the Electronic Frontier Foundation show that Best Buy’s top officials have "enjoyed a particularly close relationship" with the FBI for…

International

In Denmark, Viral Video Sparks Wave Of Child Pornography Prosecutions

·February 8, 2018
·8 Comments

[npr.org] A video that went viral in Denmark three years ago is now the basis for a wave of prosecutions. More than 1,000 young people, many of them teenagers at…

General News

Thousands of Users Shared A Child Pornography Video on Facebook Messenger

·February 7, 2018
·32 Comments

Police departments and local news stations across the nation are reporting that a child pornography video depicting a young girl and adult man began spreading to thousands of Facebook messenger…

National

Washington Post: How an Arizona couple’s innocent bath-time photos of their kids set off a 10-year legal saga

·January 24, 2018
·13 Comments

[floridaactioncommittee.org] Lisa and A.J. Demaree’s decade-long legal ordeal started with, by all accounts, an utterly innocent family moment. In 2008, the couple took their three daughters, then ages 5, 4…

General News

New DOJ Report Demonstrates Stunning Disingenuity on Cases Involving Sexual Exploitation of Children

·January 17, 2018
·12 Comments

A recent bombshell report from the Department of Justice claims that the number of people prosecuted in federal court for commercial sexual exploitation of children roughly doubled between 2004 and…

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