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Child Pornography Prosecutions Down by Half (TRAC)

by Viviane on 12/07/2007

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TRAC is the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, maintained at Syracuse University. In August 2007, there were 62 federal prosecutions of child pornography, according to timely enforcement data from the Justice Department. Though unchanged from the previous month, filings in this category are down by about half (49.7%) from the previous year, and down 20% from five years ago. These declines follow a period of rapid growth for federal child pornography prosecutions which began after President Bush took office.

For reports on the latest enforcement trends, go to:

http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/bulletins/

In addition to providing counts of the child pornography prosecutions and convictions that occurred in August, similarly timely information is available for many other categories of enforcement such as terrorism, white collar crime, official corruption, drugs, etc. Free reports are also available for major agencies such as the DEA, FBI, IRS and DHS.

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House Overwhelmingly Passes SAFE Act on Obscene Images (Engadget)

by Jefferson on 12/06/2007

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Look, kiddie porn and terrorism are bad. Obvious. But what better way for a government to push through controversial legislation quickly than to harness their emotive properties? After all, what self-respecting member of the US House of Representatives would vote against legislation called Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online, or SAFE? Only two, it turns out (Rep. Paul Broun from Georgia and Rep. presidential candidate, Ron Paul), with 409 members voting yesterday in favor. The new bill requires everyone (that includes you and Starbucks) offering an open WiFi connection to the public to be on the lookout for report known “illegal images” and “obscene” cartoons and drawings. The reporting requirement extends to cover social networking sites, ISPs, and email providers. Failing to dutifully report what you’ve seen (or haven’t seen but are unwittingly complicit in) could leave your data seized and in debt from fines of up to $300,000. This isn’t a call to arms, however . . .

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Supremes hear oral argument in child porn case

by Viviane on 10/31/2007

in child porn,legal

from the WSJ Law Blog:

The provision of the statute at issue deals with the pandering of material as child pornography. It targets the person who “advertises, promotes, presents, distributes or solicits . . . any material or purported material in a manner that reflects the belief, or that is intended to cause another to believe” that it is child pornography. The Eleventh Circuit struck the statute down as overly broad.

From the get-go, the justices assaulted Solictor General Paul Clement with all sorts of hypotheticals. For instance, the justices struggled with whether the statute could apply to movie reviewers who wrote about depictions of teen sex in movies like “American Beauty,” “Traffic” and “Lolita.”

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Buck Angel (Outrate)

by Jefferson on 03/28/2007

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buck3 Buck Angel (Outrate)

Buck Angel has made history as the world’s first female-to-male transsexual (FTM) Porn Star.

He’s an entrepreneur with a look and style all his own. Angel has gone from pioneering an entirely new adult industry genre (FTM Porn), to appearing in mainstream press on the Howard Stern Show, to working with major production companies including Titan Media.

Recently, Angel signed a major distribution deal with one of Europe’s largest DVD Distributors, Shots Video. International demand has led him to exclusive management by FL Promotions in Europe. In 2007, Angel made history again, when he became the first FTM to win the prestigious Transsexual Performer of the Year Award from AVN.

Currently, Angel is preparing for an upcoming European tour and release of a ground-breaking adult feature Buckback Mountain.

More information on Buck can be found at his website, www.buckangel.com

Buck spoke with Mark Adnum via email in March 2007.

MARK ADNUM: Love the name. How’d you choose it?

BUCK ANGEL: I love the name too! Thanks. Well I wanted a very butch name to go along with my super-masculine porn image and “Buck” is such a great macho name. It is not all that common, so it seemed just right. As for the Angel part, well, that’s my wife’s last name. She happens to be one of the most amazing and lucky people I have ever met. So I put those two names together and bam! It was perfect.

Everyone comments on what a great name it is, and I think it sticks in peoples minds. One interviewer said it was “the perfect mix of masculine and feminine,” but I had never thought of it that way before. Though I have to agree I think it is. Not that I am in any way feminine. But I guess having a pussy makes people think of feminine (funny how that works, huh!)

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Teens Prosecuted for Racy Photos (ZDNet)

by Jefferson on 02/15/2007

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What: Teenagers taking risque photos of themselves are prosecuted for violating child pornography laws.

When: Florida state appeals court rules on January 19.

Outcome: A 2-1 majority upholds conviction on grounds the girl produced a photograph featuring the sexual conduct of a child.

What happened, according to court documents: Combine unsupervised teenagers, digital cameras and e-mail, and, given sufficient time, you’ll end up with risque photographs on a computer somewhere.

There’s a problem with that: Technically, those images constitute child pornography. That’s what 16-year-old Amber and 17-year-old Jeremy, her boyfriend, both residents of the Tallahassee, Fla., area, learned firsthand. (Court documents include only their initials, A.H. and J.G.W., so we’re using these pseudonyms to make this story a little easier to read.)

On March 25, 2004, Amber and Jeremy took digital photos of themselves naked and engaged in unspecified “sexual behavior.” The two sent the photos from a computer at Amber’s house to Jeremy’s personal e-mail address. Neither teen showed the photographs to anyone else.

Court records don’t say exactly what happened next–perhaps the parents wanted to end the relationship and raised the alarm–but somehow Florida police learned about the photos.

Amber and Jeremy were arrested. Each was charged with producing, directing or promoting a photograph featuring the sexual conduct of a child. Based on the contents of his e-mail account, Jeremy was charged with an extra count of possession of child pornography.

Some more background: Under a 1995 ruling in a case called B.B. v. State, the Florida Supreme Court said that a 16-year-old could not be found delinquent for having sex with another 16-year-old.

“The crux of the state’s interest in an adult-minor situation is the prevention of exploitation of the minor by the adult,” the majority said at the time. The court ruled that a Florida statute punishing sex between teens was “unconstitutional as applied to this 16-year-old as a basis for a delinquency proceeding.”

The same applies to Amber and Jeremy. Even though he is a year older than her, he is still a minor in Florida.

In other words, under Florida law, Amber and Jeremy would be legally permitted to engage in carnal relations, but they’re criminals if they document it.

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