The digital age has made the internet a central part of daily life. This has been beneficial in countless ways, but it has also opened the door to new types of criminal activity. Among the most serious offenses are federal…
Category: Internet Sex Crimes
Aug.29
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Internet Sex Crimes | Sexual Harrassment
It has always been indecent, and criminal, for anyone in Texas to expose their anus or any part of their genitalia with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person. An underlying component of the…
Apr.22
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Illegal Pornography | Internet Sex Crimes
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…
Apr.26
2018
2018
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Internet Sex Crimes | Sexual Harrassment
In 2015, at the behest of State Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, the Texas Legislature enacted Texas Penal Code, Section 21.16(b)—more commonly known as the “revenge porn” statute. In short, § 21.16(b) creates four elements that constitute a violation of the…
Aug.03
2017
2017
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Constitutional Law | Internet Sex Crimes
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children reports that there are roughly 747,000 registered sex offenders in the United States. The Parents for Megan’s Law says that more than 46,000 of these offenders are registered in Texas.
Over…
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…
Feb.20
2017
2017
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Internet Sex Crimes
Sentencing disparity in child pornography cases is an infectious virus undermining the integrity of the federal judiciary. We discussed this problem as far back as 2010. The problem has gotten worse.
This horrific federal sentencing problem was created, and…
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…
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…
Sep.27
2016
2016
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Internet Sex Crimes
The FBI has a sordid history of being cavalier about the Constitutional protections guaranteed the people of this country, a reputation that lingers since the days of J. Edgar Hoover. This famed “crime-fighter” believed a citizen’s constitutional protections, especially to…
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