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…
Category: Sex Crimes Against Children
2018
Category: Child Abuse | Sex Crimes Against Children
The mere allegation of a sex crime against a child carries immediate and lasting consequences:
Arrest
Conviction
Sentence
Fines
Restitution
Imprisonment
Possible civil commitment
Post-imprisonment supervision
Sex offender registration
These consequences do not include probable divorce, lost or…
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 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: Sex Crimes Against Children | Sexual Abuse
Statutory rape is sexual intercourse with a person under the age of consent. In colonial-era America, the age of consent was 10 in some states, while 12 in others. This remained the case until the 1890s when a coalition of…
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: Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children
In the summer of 1982 D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Brett Kavanaugh was17 years of age and Christine Blasey Ford was 15 years of age. She attended the private all-girls Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland while Kavanaugh attended private…
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: 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,…
2018
Category: Illegal Pornography | Sex Crimes Against Children
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…