Playpen operated a “dark web” site that served, until it was shut down by the FBI, as a Walmart for child pornography. The clandestine website required a “mask” before a user could access the computer housing the site. That mask…
Category: Illegal Pornography
Mar.05
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Cyber Crimes | Illegal Pornography
The dark web is a mysterious place that is open to nefarious and illicit human behavior. In an April 2017 Stanford Law Review article titled Searching Places Unknown: Law Enforcement Jurisdiction on the Dark Web, Boston University Law Professor Ahmed…
Jan.29
2018
2018
Posted By: Staff Writer
Category: Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children
Larry Nassar was once a prominent physician with USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University Athletics. His complete fall from grace occurred recently when he was sentenced to 40-175 years in prison for sexually assaulting hundreds of young female patients over…
Dec.07
2017
2017
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes
Section 1466A(b)(1) & (d)(5) of Title 18, United States Code, makes it a criminal offense to knowingly produce, distribute, receive, or possession with the intent to distribute a visual depiction of any kind, including a drawing … that … (1)(A)…
Nov.08
2017
2017
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes Against Children
Congress and the federal courts have long adhered to the premise that child pornography websites cause “significant social harm.” The U.S. Supreme Court in 1982 said that the use of children in the production of child pornography was a “serious…
Oct.28
2017
2017
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes Against Children
Robert Mapplethorpe was a well-known, albeit controversial, American photographer who is renowned for his ”stylized black and white photography,” including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes and a controversial series documenting the underground BDSM scene in New York City. One…
Sep.16
2017
2017
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Illegal Pornography
According to a January 2017 report by The Pew Charitable Trusts, the number of federal offenders serving a period of supervised release—post-prison community monitoring similar to state parole supervision—reached an all-time high of approximately 115,000 by end of 2015. By…
Apr.16
2017
2017
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Illegal Pornography | Indecency With A Child
There was a time when federal sentencing was rather straightforward. A convicted defendant, either through a guilty plea or a jury verdict, appeared before a judge to face sentencing. The judge would consider a pre-sentence investigation report, entertain suggestions made…
Apr.12
2017
2017
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Illegal Pornography | Internet Sex Crimes
Vicki is a victim of child pornography. It began when she was 10 years of age. Pictures and videos depicting her bound, raped and sodomized was, and continues to be, widely distributed on the Internet. Her pornography became known in…
Mar.22
2017
2017
Posted By: Staff Writer
Category: Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes
Most people think of “distributing” child pornography as a large-scale operation that allows viewers access child pornographic images and videos either by hosting files on a website or through using a file-sharing service.
In reality, though, it takes a…
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