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…
Category: Illegal Pornography
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…
Feb.05
2017
2017
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Law | Illegal Pornography | Internet Sex Crimes
Texas Penal Code § 21.15(b)(1) made it a crime to photograph someone “without the person’s consent” and “with intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person.”
In 2014, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Ex…
Jan.20
2017
2017
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Illegal Pornography
The FBI has paid informants in every nook-and-cranny in American society. But who would have thought that one of the nation’s leading retailers, Best Buy, would have its Geek Squad technicians on the payroll of this country’s top law enforcement…
Jan.20
2017
2017
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes
Two Texas men with prior histories of possessing child pornography started the New Year out with 30-year federal prison terms that will keep them incarcerated until 2047.
On January 3, 2017, U.S. District Court Judge Reed C. O’Connor, sitting in…
Nov.14
2016
2016
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Illegal Pornography | Internet Sex Crimes
Aaron Wikkerink had an extensive criminal history that included a conviction for a sex offense (aggravated incest that had resulted in an eight-year prison sentence) when he was arrested again in February 2014 in Shreveport, Louisiana on 41 counts of…
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