Tag Archives: Topic: Child Pornography

The AP reports: “Police in Newark, Ohio, have arrested a 15-year-old girl on juvenile child pornography charges for allegedly sending nude cell phone photos of herself to classmates.”  The report indicates that charges are also being considered for the recipients …

The AP reports: “Under a new Illinois law, computer technicians must report to law enforcement any customers whose computers contain child pornography.”

The September 2008 edition of the Community Defense Reporter is now available online via the Community Defense Counsel.

LifeSiteNews.com reports: “A 34 year-old man in southern Sweden, who had been convicted of rape and child pornography charges after he filmed himself having sex with a 14 year-old girl, has been awarded 157,000 kronor, the equivalent of Cn $24,170, …

The BBC reports: “Spanish police have arrested 121 people in what they described as the country’s largest ever operation against internet child pornography.”

The 10th Circuit has issued a ruling in U.S. v. Schene, No. 07-6177 (10th Cir. Sept. 30, 2008) that begins: Defendant Jay Martin Schene was convicted by a jury of five counts of knowingly possessing material that contained an image of …

The AP reports: “. . . The House on Friday passed by 418-0 a measure clarifying that images obtained over the Internet were subject to federal interstate commerce laws. The bill was in response to a federal court ruling that …

Fox News reports: The founder of the movie review company Movieguide has joined the growing ranks of protesters calling for a box office boycott of two films that feature sexually explicit scenes involving young girls. “Hounddog,” starring 14-year-old Dakota Fanning, …

The Blog of the Legal Times reports: “Charles Rust-Tierney, the former president of the Virginia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, was disbarred today by the D.C. Court of Appeals. On July 1, 2007, Rust-Tierney, 52, pleaded guilty to …

A British vicar in the Welsh town of Beguildy says he did possess more than 55,000 child pornographic photographs.

The AP reports: “A former San Francisco radio talk show host and former Roman Catholic priest was sentenced to more than seven years in prison Thursday for distributing child pornography.”

An auto body shop worker was convicted and swiftly sentenced to life in prison Thursday for grooming children as young as 5 to perform in sex shows at a small-town swingers club.

The AP reports: Authorities say a California sheriff’s deputy and an attorney were among 55 men charged with possessing child pornography after an eight-month investigation.

Part V will examine whether sexual conduct between avatars, one of whom is a child, is covered by the holding of Free Speech Coalition and can be regulated at all.

The East Valley Tribune reports: The Phoenix Police Department is looking into whether it should open a criminal child pornography investigation into photographs shot by a Tempe artist and published last week by a Valley newspaper . . . The …

A former U.S. Olympic official has asked a Connecticut court for a special form of probation that could lead to dismissal of child pornography charges.

We’ve reached the point where we blindly ignore gross and horrific child abuse. And we’ve become so comfortable in our upscale communities that we don’t want to acknowledge what the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) calls “the seedy and sophisticated underworld” of child porn.

State legislators will be asked to consider a bill that would require computer repair technicians to report to police any content they find on a customer’s computer that might involve child pornography or abuse.

Part III considers the rights of the defendant under the Constitution and federal statutes, finding that the refusal of discovery in child pornography cases is a clear invasion of the defendant’s rights.

It’s not often that you see a conviction reversed because of evidentiary error, much less on plain error review. But that’s exactly what happened to one of the four child pornography counts of which Baker was convicted

The AP reports: “New York’s attorney general says several more Internet service providers have agreed to limit access to child pornography.”

The AP reports: A woman prosecutors say helped make a graphic videotape of her two visiting grandchildren has pleaded guilty in a Texas child pornography case. The U.S. attorney’s office said Friday that 51-year-old Denise Ward of Overland Park, Kan., …

The 8th Circuit has issued a unanimous panel ruling in United States v. Zastrow, No. 07-3139 (8th Cir. July 23, 2008). The opinion begins: Emory James Zastrow (Zastrow) pled guilty to one count of producing child pornography, in violation of …

Findlaw has forward this summary of the ruling in United States v. Duane, No. 06-6536 (6th Cir. July 17, 2008) (Opinion on Findlaw): A sentence for receiving and possessing child pornography is affirmed where: 1) the use of the 2005 …

The Christian Post reports: “Pat Truman, special counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, said that the recent move by AT&T and AOL was a major milestone, and would help to spur other providers to join the bandwagon in combating child …

The AP reports: “Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says two of the nation’s largest Internet providers have removed newsgroups that featured child pornography.”

A McAllen man facing child pornography charges entered a guilty plea Wednesday. In an appearance before the 139th District Court, Jack Arnold Heflin, 30, pleaded guilty to three counts of child pornography promotion and a single count of possession.

CBS reports: Last week, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown jointly called on California Internet service providers to “follow the lead of Verizon, Time Warner Cable and Sprint by “removing child pornography from existing servers and blocking …

The Washington Post reports: The decision yesterday by three Internet service providers to block access to online child pornography is the latest in a series of steps by companies and government officials to curb the distribution of such materials. But …

The AP reports: A Nantucket man who admitted he filmed himself sexually assaulting at least 30 young girls during annual trips to Southeast Asia over more than a decade was sentenced Tuesday to a 25-year prison term. U.S. District Court …

The AP reports: Internet providers Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to block access to child pornography and eliminate the material from their servers, New York’s attorney general said Tuesday. The companies also will pay $1.1 million to …

In the Northern District of California alone, four child porn targets have committed suicide over the past nine months, according to government court filings in two separate cases. One additional defendant tried to kill himself in February . . .

Many of these pictures are falling into the wrong hands – or worse, everyone’s hands, via the Internet – and leading to criminal charges.

How Appealing links to the ruling: U.S. v. Rowan, No. 05-30536 (5th Cir., June 5, 2008).

Francis Eugene Giberson was convicted in the United States District Court
for the District of Nevada of the receipt and possession of child pornography.

The Wall Street Journal has this report: Modern Art, Denuded. It begins: Telling the truth about morally repugnant art apparently isn’t allowed in Australia. When Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called suggestive photographs of naked underage teenagers at a local art …

“Parents are in an unprecedented time. They are in cyber parenting and no one before them ever had to do this,” says the President and CEO of the San Diego Police Foundation Wenda Alvarez.

Justice Scalia explained that when a ban on child pornography is challenged on “overbreadth” grounds, complainants must demonstrate not merely that they can come up with some clever Romeo and Juliet-type example of a chilling effect

A Caldwell County grand jury returned a 22-count indictment Tuesday against Lockhart resident James Archie Wells, III, 49, for possession of child pornography.

“THE FIGHT against child pornography got a welcome boost this week when the Supreme Court upheld a law that makes it illegal for anyone to peddle or solicit explicit images of real children.”

This time, the court upheld the law by a 7-to-2 vote. That creates a bizarre contradiction. Fake child pornography is protected, but marketing fake child pornography is not. As Justice David Souter noted in dissent, it makes no sense to criminalize proposing to sell items that are themselves constitutionally protected.

The Wisconsin teenager is facing felony child pornography charges for allegedly posting naked photos of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend on his MySpace page. When contacted by police about the two images, Phillips, 17, balked at removing the pictures of the girl.

SCOTUS Blog has this commentary on yesterday’s ruling. This case involved a challenge to a federal criminal statute which prohibits offering or receiving child pornography.

Today, the United States Supreme Court upheld a federal statute that prohibits solicitation of child pornography . . . Offers to engage in illegal transactions are categorically excluded from First Amendment protection.

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court justices considered whether a person looking at a book in a library is analogous to a person downloading files from the Internet and whether, in either circumstance, the person is in “control” of the material.

The AP reports: “A New Hampshire man has been handed a 41-month prison sentence after pleading guilty in U.S. District Court in Bangor to possessing child pornography on his computer.” He faced up to 20 years.

Corliss faces 10-20 years in prison.

Technological advances in recent years have been such that an untrained eye simply cannot easily distinguish a photograph of a real person from a virtual image by merely eyeballing the photographs in question . . .

A former school teacher has been sentenced in a child porn case investigated and prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office, announced Attorney General Jim Hood today.

An Internet safety expert says while child pornography has become a multi-billion dollar commercial business, there’s insufficient funding for law enforcement officers who are attempting to track down child pornographers and pedophiles . . .

“We’re losing,” Mueller said bluntly when asked about the issues of computer crime and child pornography on the Web by Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz.

Police say one video shows a 4-year-old girl having sex with a man and the other gives advice and examples on how to sexually abuse minors . . .

OneNewsNow reports: Pro-family attorney Pat Trueman says it’s outrageous that a Pennsylvania college professor will spend only 30 days in jail after being sentenced on three counts of possessing child pornography . . . He argues that the college professor’s …

Officials at a Surprise charter school say they were shocked to learn that a fifth-grade teacher who also taught an after-school program had been distributing and receiving child pornography on the Internet for years.

Davenport’s simultaneous conviction for both receipt and possession of child pornography violates the Fifth Amendment’s prohibition on double jeopardy.

Librarians across the United States should report child pornography to law enforcement despite their supervisors’ reluctance to protect children, said Campaign for Children and Families, a leading California-based pro-family organization.

Police have used a law intended to keep pornographic magazines away from children as the basis for arresting four middle-school students accused of using cell phone cameras to snap nude photos of themselves and exchanging the images.

. . . husband refused to allow police to search his computer for child pornography. Police then went to husband’s home and asked his wife for permission. She consented. The majority ruled that her consent was sufficient.

Twelve U.S. men were indicted with participating in a global child pornography ring that distributed more than 400,000 pictures and videos of children engaged in sexual activities.

Via The Windsor Star: The same evolving computer technology used by music lovers to share tunes is being used for its versatility and anonymity by those plying the Internet for child pornography, a Windsor trial heard Tuesday.

Joe Seelig reports at Tampa Bay Online: A Lake Placid man remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $643,000 bond Monday, arrested on 215 counts of child pornography. Jonathan Robert Drake, 45, of 223 Boren Ave., was booked on …

“The production and distribution of obscene images of people under 18 is already illegal under a 1999 law, but there is no law banning individuals from possessing such material.”

Mobile firms from across the world have launched a new alliance which aims to block paedophiles using phones to send or receive child sexual abuse images.

Court of Appeals, State of Arizona, Division One – In an opinion filed on January 15th, Judge Kessler upheld the conviction of Michael Jensen on one count of sexual conduct with a minor, one count of sexual indecency to a …