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: Sex Crimes Against Children
2018
Category: Child Abuse | Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children
A sex offender’s conviction is overturned because a Texas judge decided to administer electric shocks to him.
What happened?
The details are too surreal to be made up.
In 2014, Terry Lee Morris, 54, was convicted for…
2018
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…
2017
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…
2017
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…
2017
Category: Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children | Sex Offender Registry
A conviction for a sex crime carries heavy penalties in Texas, but did you know that Halloween comes with its own set of additional requirements if you are on the sex offender registry?
If you are a registered sex…
2017
Category: Prosecutorial Misconduct | Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children
Some prosecutors, at both the state and federal level, find it almost irresistible to engage in misconduct when prosecuting child sexual abuse cases. Those rogue prosecutors, who have no scruples about the rule of law, might argue that the end…
2017
Category: Sex Crimes Against Children | Sexual Abuse
According to by Sen. Paul Bettencourt, the state of Texas has a “plague” in its school system—improper relationships between educators and students. Reportedly, this plague has been spreading since 2010.
In a January 2015 article, the Washington Post reported…
2017
Category: Human Trafficking | Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes Against Children | Sex Trafficking | Sexual Abuse
Crimes against children, especially sex offenses, receive more significant law enforcement attention that other criminal offenses. Texas is on the precipice of establishing a special unit specifically designed to handle child sex and human trafficking cases.
Last month Texas…