3 results for month: 01/2012
Fifth Circuit Decides to Reconsider Restitution Victory
If you're awake and you've been following this blog for any length of time, your probably know that during the past two years, victims of child pornography (represented by the Marsh Law Firm and pioneering attorneys Paul G. Cassell and Carol L. Hepburn ) have been seeking restitution in federal courts throughout the country.
Using a long forgotten passage in the Violence Against Women Act championed by then-Senator Joe Biden in 1994, child sex abuse victims are asking federal judges to award the mandatory restitution guaranteed by this law.
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Unfortunately, the Justice Department has abandoned victims of ...
Sexting Norms Uncovered in Two Studies
In the January edition of Pediatrics researchers explored two issues: The Prevalence and Characteristics of Youth Sexting and How Often Are Teens Arrested for Sexting?
Prior to the research estimates of the prevalence of sexting varied considerably depending on the nature of the images or videos and the role of the youth involved.
A cross-sectional national telephone survey of 1560 youth Internet users, ages 10 through 17, discovered that only 2.5% of youth appeared in or created nude or nearly nude pictures or videos.
However, this percentage was reduced to 1.0% when the definition was restricted to only include images that were sexually explicit ...
New Year’s Resolutions 2012
Like everyone else on the planet, I've been publishing more and more content on the much-maligned Facebook. If you really want to absorb each and everything I publish, flag, highlight, champion, condemn, etc., then please join the Marsh Law Firm Facebook page. There's lots of good stuff there which I routinely post throughout the day when a full-blown blog entry, commentary and analysis isn't warranted or, more likely, when I don't have enough time to delve into the issue.
If you don't have Facebook or completely despise and eschew the site (perhaps based on my oft-repeated warnings and criticisms), then you can follow my Facebook postings by ...