Posted in child porn, crime on Dec 7th, 2007
TRAC is the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, maintained at Syracuse University. In August 2007, there were 62 federal prosecutions of child pornography, according to timely enforcement data from the Justice Department. Though unchanged from the previous month, filings in this category are down by about half (49.7%) from the previous year, and down 20% from [...]
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Look, kiddie porn and terrorism are bad. Obvious. But what better way for a government to push through controversial legislation quickly than to harness their emotive properties? After all, what self-respecting member of the US House of Representatives would vote against legislation called Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online, or SAFE? Only two, it turns out (Rep. [...]
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Posted in child porn, legal on Oct 31st, 2007
from the WSJ Law Blog:
The provision of the statute at issue deals with the pandering of material as child pornography. It targets the person who “advertises, promotes, presents, distributes or solicits . . . any material or purported material in a manner that reflects the belief, or that is intended to cause another to believe” [...]
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Buck Angel has made history as the world’s first female-to-male transsexual (FTM) Porn Star.
He’s an entrepreneur with a look and style all his own. Angel has gone from pioneering an entirely new adult industry genre (FTM Porn), to appearing in mainstream press on the Howard Stern Show, to working with major production companies including Titan [...]
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Posted in adolescence, child porn on Feb 15th, 2007
What: Teenagers taking risque photos of themselves are prosecuted for violating child pornography laws.
When: Florida state appeals court rules on January 19.
Outcome: A 2-1 majority upholds conviction on grounds the girl produced a photograph featuring the sexual conduct of a child.
What happened, according to court documents: Combine unsupervised teenagers, digital cameras and e-mail, and, given [...]
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