Child porn and legal issues.

[JohnnyO]

Not that I'm for child porn, but 1335 years in prison? Warrants for people not in this country? If the actual images was hosted in Russia or Indoesia, what US laws were actually broken?

What's next? Arrest everyone in Costa Rica because the age of concent is like 13?



FORT WORTH -- A Fort Worth couple accused of running an Internet child porn business from their home were sentenced to hefty prison terms today, U.S. Attorney Richard Stephens said.

U.S. District Judge Terry Means sentenced Thomas Reedy, 37, to 1,335 years in prison on 89 counts. Reedy has been in custody since December 2000, when he was convicted on charges including sexual exploitation of minors and distribution of child pornography.

The company provided a credit card verification service that admitted customers into Web sites featuring pictures and movies of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Landslide charged each customer about $29.95 per month for access.

Warrants have been issued for the arrest of foreign webmasters who ran the porn sites, and the United States will seek extradition. R.W. Kusuma and Hanny Ingganata of Indonesia and Boris Greenberg of Russia were charged with sexual exploitation of minors and distribution of child pornography in the April 2000 indictment.

 

[JohnnyO]

I don't know what the actuall pics were, but say for instance I can go to Demark or Germany and get videos of 16 year olds. Not illegal there, the age of concent is 16.

So if I invest and profit from the German company that markets and exploits 16 year olds, I'm liable to go to jail?

I'm just leary that the actual dirty work was done in a different country, but we're sentencing based on US laws.

 

[Shrebly]

MONEY IS MADE OFF OF CHILDREN EVERY YEAR.
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY IS NOT OVERLY WRONG.
LETS SAY 18 IS THE AGE.
WHATS THE DIFFERENCE IN A 17 YEAR OLDS BODY WHO TURNS 18 THE NEXT DAY?

AND WHY CAN THEY SHOW NAKED BABIES ON TV?

STEEL BEAST brings up a good question about naked kids on tv.

The real issue here is that the kids are performing sexual acts in the movies, however some of the websites have photo galleries.

Using a credit card service to charge for access breaks a few laws, as does knowingly providing access to websites that have either child porn stills, streams or recordings.

There is a world of difference between a 17 year old posing nude [which breaks laws in most states] or performing [Traci Lords was an exception - she falsified records and stated that she was over 18] and a child of six or seven posing nude or performing.

About seeing naked kids on tv - those ads run less and less these days due to pressure from different groups. But still, there is a difference between having them advertising diapers / pull up's or toilet paper and porn.

On a side note - if you post pics of your kids on the internet use a script that prevents right clicking or saving the image to someones hard drive. Several NAMBLA members were busted and were found to have catalogs of kids photo's that they downloaded from various childrens beauty pagents.