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  Child pornography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term "child" is normally defined clearly by each country's child pornography laws, however the definition of "pornography" varies dramatically, and is open to vast ranges of interpretation, even within a single jurisdiction.
Some convicts who claim to have viewed child pornography out of curiosity are in fact shown to not be attracted to children after being examined in a psychosexual evaluation or plethysmograph.
She wrote: "I was scorned by my friends, accused of child pornography and fired from my teaching job after exhibiting photographs of my son, my husband and my father in law in the nude." (14850 magazine, March 1994).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Internet_child_pornography   (5702 words)

  
 Child Pornography on the Internet
The very existence of child porn is considered 'contraband,' or illegal because the very act of photographing a child in any sexual context is abusive." The Internet has become an increasingly vast area where those involved in child pornography have found their niche.
Pornography, especially child pornography, is used by pedophiles for three reasons: (1) to stimulate themselves; (2) to destroy the consciences and lower the inhibitions and resistance to sexual activity in their intended child victims; (3) to teach a child what to model in the sexual encounter with the adult.
This report on child pornography by Nancy Burnett is broken in three parts: understanding the problem, empowering the parents, and reporting child pornography on the Internet.
lrs.ed.uiuc.edu /wp/crime/childporn.htm   (1300 words)

  
 Articole -Internet Child Pornography
Child pornography is also forbidden because in many cases pedophiles and child molesters use them to make the idea acceptable to their victims (“look, this is something usual”).
Child pornography possession may enforce on the long run the erroneous belief that sexual activity with children is acceptable.
When a child pornographer chooses to manufacture electronically his representations, the harm cause to the child represented in the picture is a moral one, as his appearance, taken from a harmless picture, was used to create pornography, and his physical features were altered.
www.legi-internet.ro /child_pornography.htm   (5525 words)

  
 Federal Bureau of Investigation - Congressional Testimony
In short, child pornographers, who consisted of 49 of the 62 subjects, were responsible for the vast majority of the 1,433 victims reported for that group.
The child pornography typically depicts a child of the same age as the Agent's cover having sexual acts with an older man. The purpose behind this is clearly to lower the inhibitions of the person the offender believes is a child and to convince the child that the activity is fun and acceptable.
Therefore, despite the overwhelming probability that images of child pornography do come from real children, the inability of an expert to state as a matter of scientific certainty that a given image seized from a defendant's computer is a picture of an identifiable child, will severely undermine our ability to bring these perpetrators to justice.
www.fbi.gov /congress/congress02/heimbach050102.htm   (3846 words)

  
 Child Pornography Defenses
Child pornography lawyer and attorneys, possession of child pornography in Minnesota
In the internet context, often the strongest defense is that the person accused did not have the requisite "intent." In other words, the person possessing the material did not know that he/she possessed it, did not know the character of the material possessed or did not know that the pornographic material involved minors.
Internet child pornography is a growing offense across the nation.
www.nvo.com /beaulier/customhtml1   (982 words)

  
 Danger online: The Internet and child pornography
Victims, meanwhile, spend their lives with the memory of child sexual abuse; the sense that adults are hurtful people who cannot be trusted, rather than loving caregivers; and the knowledge that photos or video of their abuse still circulate worldwide.
Pedophilic child molesters are so focused on having sex with children that they may pursue this compulsion to the exclusion of other activities, such as going to work.
Later in life, the victims of child sexual assault are more likely than others to be victimized again, have troubled relationships, engage in prostitution and — in something like 14 percent to 33 percent of all cases — sexually molest children as adults.
pressherald.mainetoday.com /specialrpts/danger/danger.htm   (3564 words)

  
 New DOJ Report: Child Pornography on the Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
However, pornography in the modern sense began with the invention of the camera in the early nineteenth century.
However, the advent of the Internet in the 1980s dramatically changed the scale and nature of the child pornography problem, and has required new approaches to investigation and control.
Internet child pornography is only one of a number of problems related to either child abuse or the Internet.
communitydispatch.com /artman/publish/article_5188.shtml   (344 words)

  
 Child Pornography And Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Child pornography on the Internet is real child abuse.
Children used for pornography are often being groomed for future and further abuse.
Child sex rings and prostitution happens to children/individuals who are vulnerable, perhaps related to institutions as clients.
www.m-a-h.net /library/abuse/article-childporn.htm   (1335 words)

  
 Center for Problem-Oriented Policing
Because of the volume of Internet child pornography crime, police forces need to prioritize their efforts and concentrate on the most serious offenders, particularly those actually involved in abusing children and producing pornographic images.
It has been noted that success in combating child pornography is too often judged in terms of the number of images recovered, rather than by the more significant criterion of whether the crimes the images portray have been prevented.
One of the concerns about Internet child pornography is that children may inadvertently access material, or may have material sent to them either as part of a grooming process or by cyber-stalkers.
www.popcenter.org /Problems/problem-childporn_p4.htm   (2524 words)

  
 JOLT: Notes
While child pornography is generally illegal throughout the world, enforcement from a US standpoint encounters two problems: (1) determining whether the content in question is indeed illegal and (2) ineffective methods of uncovering Lolita sites.
Despite the ambiguity under the 1st Amendment, the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 amended the definition of child pornography under 18 U.S.C. ยค2256 to include not only the depiction of sexual conduct by real minors but also the depiction of sexual conduct by what appears to be minors.
While the internet is no longer in its infancy, the law applying to it is. As real world law is translated and applied to the unique characteristics of cyberspace, and developments in technology allow better identification of the parties involved, governments will be better able to actively address the Lolita problem.
www.lawtechjournal.com /notes/2002/07_020819_hwang.php   (1503 words)

  
 Virtual Reality Child Pornography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Internet child pornography has been outlawed and federal child exploitation statutes have been amended to include computer technology.
Child pornography encourages ill behavior and has negative effects on its direct innocent victims, on others, and on society as a whole.
First, the law should regulate virtual child porn, since it puts children in situations society finds inappropriate, whether the child image is real or virtual, the effect on the end user is the same, even if the generation of the image did not involve the actual child.
www.bethel.edu /~gossett/ges329k/VirtualChildren/ReedSchneider.html   (579 words)

  
 CYBER CRIME: COMBATING INTERNET CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
The Internet has dramatically increased the access of the preferential sex offenders to the population they seek to victimize and provides them greater access to a community of people who validate their sexual preferences.
A major operation is the establishment of a law enforcement presence on the internet as a deterrent to subjects that exploit children.
In addition, the IINI works to identify child victims and obtain appropriate services and assistance for them and to establish a law enforcement presence on the Internet that will act as a deterrent to those who seek to sexually exploit children.
www.michnews.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/193/6294/printer   (934 words)

  
 Model Jerry Hall defends Pete Townshend over accessing Internet child pornography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
From this story and the fact that no child that we know of has come foreward to say Pete molested him I doubt he is guilty of anything more than research for his book.
I believe he sincerely despises pornography and was drawn to that site through rage and disgust, as well as his suspicions that he was similarly abused as a child.
Child pornography is awful, but so is destroying the reputation of an innocent man.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/822088/posts   (2147 words)

  
 E-Commerce News: Internet: Child Pornography a Growing Global Problem
Child pornography on the Internet is a growing problem for countries around the world, new research suggests.
Internet pornography of all varieties is also a problem in the emerging market of China.
According to Li Jiaming of the Internet Society of China, 68.2 percent of the 127,010 complaints the organization received in 2005 concerned pornography.
www.ecommercetimes.com /story/49186.html   (623 words)

  
 Telenor and KRIPOS Introduce Internet Child Pornography Filter
"Child pornography on the Internet is a serious problem, and we want make a contribution to the fight against it," said Berit Kjoll, Director of the Consumer Market at Telenor.
The child pornography filter comes free-of-charge, and Telenor will be happy to share its experience and its technology with other Internet suppliers.
If other Internet suppliers in Norway and abroad are willing to enter into this partnership, this could be a serious blow to commercial distributors of child pornography.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/09-21-2004/0002255282&EDATE=   (1237 words)

  
 U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Financial and Internet Industries to Combat Internet Child Pornography"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Child pornography has become a multi-billion dollar commercial enterprise and is among the fastest growing businesses on the Internet.
The Internet has enabled instant access to child pornography by thousands and possibly millions of individuals around the world.
If members of the public have knowledge of a child pornography web site they are encouraged to report it immediately to the CyberTipline managed by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (www.cybertipline.com or 1-800-843-5678).
releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=62397   (664 words)

  
 LawyerIntl.com - Articles - Cyber Law - Child Pornography And The Internet
As a result, a person accused of such crimes will require a lawyer well versed in the intricacies of the internet and how such temporary files may be unintentionally transferred to computer records.
This is often the case where multiple images downloaded from web sites come bundled together or where information is automatically downloaded to a computer with computer software from newsgroups or other unscreened public areas.
A person convicted of child pornography or other "serious child sex offenses" may not subsequently engage in any occupation or participate in any volunteer position that requires him or her to work or interact primarily and directly with children under 16 years of age.
lawyerintl.com /modules/AMS/article.php?storyid=2054   (760 words)

  
 Cybertelecom :: Child Pornography
Child pornography can legally be considered obscenity - and therefore have no First Amendment protection.
Child pornography is also a policy issue on the grounds of protecting the welfare of children who are abused and mistreated in the creation of child pornography.
According to the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 (CPPA), content that appears to use children (individuals under the age of 18) engage in sexual conduct is illegal, regardless of whether such images have any scientific, literary, or artistic merit (in other words, regardless of whether it is obscene).
www.cybertelecom.org /cda/cppa1.htm   (1609 words)

  
 Dozens Charged in International, Internet-based Child Pornography Investigation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Seven child victims of sexual molestation have been identified as a result of the investigation, and four alleged molesters are among the 27 defendants charged to date in the continuing investigation.
In Chicago, three defendants were charged with conspiracy to possess, receive, solicit and distribute child pornography in a seven-count indictment returned yesterday by a federal grand jury in the Northern District of Illinois.
The conspiracy count alleges that on Feb. 11, 2006, Sweezer distributed two video images of child pornography to an individual whom he believed was a participant in the chat room, but who in fact was an ICE agent who had assumed the identity of a chat room participant to conduct the undercover investigation.
ojjdp.ncjrs.org /enews/06juvjust/060320.html   (1000 words)

  
 Internet crimes: child pornography
Child Pornography and allegations of sexual misconduct over the Internet
A special FBI program aimed a curbing perceived internet stalkers, sexual predators and owners of child pornography has resulted in 407 searches and 192 convictions.
Much of the alleged child pornography is legal and widely available on the internet.
www.cybercrimelawyer.com /pages/childpornography.html   (207 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Technology | US steps up fight on child porn
The proposals were announced by US Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, who said that the net had created an "epidemic" of child pornography.
In response, he announced proposed changes in the law under the Child Pornography and Obscenity Prevention Amendments of 2006.
"The investigation and prosecution of child predators depends critically on the availability of evidence that is often in the hands of internet service providers," he said.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/technology/4929578.stm   (439 words)

  
 HOUSE BILL 1333 P.N. 3184   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
24 (2) For purposes of this subsection, an Internet service 25 provider, or the person designated by the Internet service 26 provider, shall be notified in writing by the Attorney 27 General within three days of the Attorney General's receipt 28 of an application by a district attorney.
Upon 19 receipt by the Attorney General, such order shall be 20 forwarded to the Internet service provider, or the person 21 designated by the Internet service provider, within three 22 days of its receipt.
23 "Internet." The myriad of computer and telecommunications 24 facilities, including equipment and operating software, which 25 comprise the interconnected worldwide network of networks that 26 employ the transmission control protocol/Internet protocol, or 27 any predecessor or successor protocols to such protocol, to 28 communicate information of all kinds by wire or radio.
www.legis.state.pa.us /WU01/LI/BI/BT/2001/0/HB1333P3184.HTM   (1736 words)

  
 Coalition Launched To Fight Child Pornography - Internet News by InformationWeek
The Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography includes credit card companies, banks, and Internet companies that will work with law enforcement and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Mar 20, 2006 12:00 AM Internet technology and E-commerce helped transform the small, seamy back-alley business of peddling child pornography into a global, $20 billion-a-year criminal enterprise.
Nearly a quarter million Web sites are involved in child pornography, and the take could grow to $30 billion in five years, authorities say, exploiting the Internet's perceived anonymity.
www.informationweek.com /internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=183700705   (742 words)

  
 U.S. Postal Inspection Service and Operation Avalanche
After reviewing volumes of seized evidence and subpoenaed financial records, the Reedy’s were indicted in federal district court on 89 counts of conspiracy to distribute child pornography and possession of child pornography.
Investigators obtained and served search warrants, seized huge volumes of child pornography images and materials, identified child molesters, and rescued victimized children from further sexual abuse.
Few cases that originate on the Internet remain in the same jurisdiction—nearly all cross state lines and involve multiple jurisdictions at federal and state levels, with extensive interagency collaborations.
www.usps.com /postalinspectors/avalanch.htm   (735 words)

  
 Federal Bureau of Investigation - Innocent Images National Initiative and Online Child Pornography Program
Investigation revealed that computer-sex offenders utilized the chat rooms to contact children as a child does not know whether he or she is chatting with a 14-year-old or a 40-year-old.
The ECAP uses national and international media exposure of unknown adults featured in child pornography and displays their face on the “Seeking Information” section of the FBI’s website at www.fbi.gov/mostwant/seekinfo/seekcac.htm in hopes someone can identify them.
This sense of anonymity encourages pedophiles to openly share as much of their child pornography to as wide an audience as possible.
www.fbi.gov /publications/innocent.htm   (2833 words)

  
 Internet Crimes: child pornography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Taken from Law and the Internet, Significant Decisions Concerning the Internet, The New York Law Journal Sept.30, 1996.
The defendant came to the attention of the FBI during a nationwide investigation conducted by that agency into trading child pornography on the computer bulletin services of America On-Line.
The court rejected the defendant's argument that the forfeiture was excessive, because the relevant statute and the fine scheme established by the Guidelines explicitly empowered the court to impose a total fine well in excess of the defendant's $88,737 equity interest.
www.cybercrimelawyer.com /pages/childporno/forfeiture.html   (290 words)

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