Between 1997 and 2010, according to a report by Families Against Mandatory Minimums (“FAMM”), sentences in child pornography cases increased by 500 percent. That report surveyed judges across the country and found that seventy percent of them believed that the…
Category: Illegal Pornography
2019
A search of a New Jersey home last year by federal agents discovered pornographic images of two children believed to be less than one year of age. Determined by forensic review to have been taken in 2015, the images revealed…
2018
Category: Constitutional Law | Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes Against Children
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are collectively known as the Bill Rights. These original amendments guaranteed 8 rights to criminal defendants facing prosecution by the federal government. They are:
Protection against unreasonable search and seizure;
Grand…
2018
Category: Illegal Pornography | Sex Trafficking
Roughly 7 million children are the victims of human trafficking each year. Former President Barak Obama addressed this domestic and global problem when he signed into law the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 (JVTA) on May 29,…
2018
Category: Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes Against Children
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Tor is a service that allows a person to use the Internet anonymously. It has two components:
Software that must be downloaded to provided Internet anonymity; and
A network of volunteer computers…
2018
Category: Appeals | Constitutional Law | Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes Against Children
The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees a criminal defendant the right to counsel at every critical stage of the proceedings against him or her, including the physical presence of counsel during trial.
This fundamental constitutional principle does…
2018
Category: Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children
In a disturbing turn of events, a college-aged anti-sexual violence activist was recently arrested in New York on child sexual abuse charges.
The founder of an organization known as “Youth to End Sexual Violence,” the activist has waged a…
2018
Category: federal Sentencing | Illegal Pornography
Child pornography evokes intense feelings of contempt and bias against those whom such charges are leveled.
Illustrative of this contempt is the 50-year prison term imposed on a Rockwall, Texas man by U.S. District Court Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater,…
2018
Category: Constitutional Law | Illegal Pornography
For most cellphone owners, the pocket-size device has become their address book, photo album, personal journal, bank account, news source, calendar, social network, and a slew of other services. In a recent ruling, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts…
2018
Category: Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children
A Texas father and son were charged with felony child pornography crimes. They now face a total of 70 years in prison.
Earlier this month, police found child pornography on several laptops in the home of the two men,…