The United States statute passed in 1996 outlawing the possession of child pornography does not make the distinction between real and virtual porn. First Amendment advocates state that the child pornography law is infringing upon the right to free speech. H. Lewis
Sirkin, a First Amendment lawyer, was able to get the Child Pornography Protection Act in California declared unconstitutional in federal court. However, similar interpretations of the law were not upheld in two other federal court cases. Ultimately, this issue will have to be determined by the Supreme Court.
Kevin Carney, 48, a city councilman and former sheriff’s child-abuse investigator pleaded innocent at his arraignment in Los Angeles Municipal Court and is being held on $2 million bail. Carney turned himself in to authorities today after he was charged with molesting four girls over the past decade, according to prosecutors. He is accused of 17 counts of child molestation and one count of possession of child pornography. According to the felony complaint filed in Los Angeles Municipal Court, the crimes occurred between April 1990 and October 1999. The former
Emily Smith, 15, was reported missing by her father several months ago. Law enforcement acted on an anonymous tip leading them to Phoenix, Arizona where they apprehended 31 year old, Jon Jeffrey Shoemaker, who was due in court to answer charges of molesting Emily. Investigators also discovered Emily’s mother, Catherine, at the same hotel room as Shoemaker. Catherine Smith pleaded innocent to contributing to the delinquency of a minor on October 28th. The molestation charges against Shoemaker detailed for a ten week period, Shoemaker and two of his friends engaged
A web site has been set up to help parents know, yes or no only, if a pedophile has moved within a 2 1/2 mile radius. If so they can then go to local police for information.
Durke G. Thompson, a Circuit Court Judge said it takes two to tango when he noted that an 11-year-old girl who was sexually molested by 23-year-old Vladimir Chacon-Bonilla was not free of fault because she had invited the man into her bedroom. Immediately coming under criticism for Thompson*s remarks, Montgomery State’s Attorney Douglas F. Gansler said the 18 month jail term given to Chacon-Bonilla was more appropriate for a shoplifter and said the judge’s comments about the girl being partly to blame for the sex acts were inappropriate. This was
The Reverend Edward Lawrence Ball, an Aurora priest, is expected to return to California to face molestation charges from two former altar boys now in their late 20’s. He already was convicted for similar crimes (fondling three altar boys when living in Texas).
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