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…
Category: Illegal Pornography
2017
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…
2017
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…
2017
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…
2017
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…
2016
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…
2016
Category: Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes
The state of Texas has many dubious distinctions. It leads the nation as being the “worst” or near the bottom of the “worst” in many categories, like being the worst in nursing home care. But one of the state’s more…
2016
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Illegal Pornography | Internet Sex Crimes
There is this rule of law—dating back to 1932 when the U.S. Supreme Court first pronounced it—that the Double Jeopardy Clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibits multiple punishments for the same criminal offense.
Double Jeopardy
The double jeopardy…
2016
Category: Federal Sentencing | Illegal Pornography | Internet Sex Crimes
LimeWire is a file-sharing program that uses “peer-to-peer” (P2P) technology. LimeWire allows its users to share digital files through an Internet-based network called the “Gnutella network.” A LimeWire user can download any files located by LimeWire. When a user downloads…
2016
Category: Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes
The first federal child pornography law, Sexual Exploitation of Children Act, was enacted in 1978. Years of legal development have made any sexual exploitation a serious federal and state violation
This development began following the 1982 U.S. Supreme Court…