Can Child Pornography Prevent Child Sex Abuse?

A controversial study published today in the Archives of Sexual Behavior suggests that free and legal child pornography can prevent child sex abuse. University of Hawaii professor Milton Diamond reviewed a study finding that the rate of child sex abuse fell dramatically in the Czech Republic when child pornography was legalized in 1990. Apparently researchers observed a similar phenomenon with the decriminalization of child porn in Denmark and Japan. According to Diamond, "in those three countries where child porn is legal the sex abuse against children is very low and it has gone down compared to when it was illegal." Diamond said child pornography ...

Wikileaks on Masha Allen

Long before Wikileaks founder and editor Julian Assange became the planet's most hunted man for releasing hundreds of thousands of military and diplomatic documents, he published a eerily prescient exposé on Masha Allen entitled One Child's Unending Abuse - From Disney World Girl to Drifter In March 2008, Assange and business reporter Christopher Witkowsky, released what would become journalism's epitaph on what had been an international story influencing everyone from Senator John Kerry to Oprah to President Putin. Masha's rapid ascent to worldwide fame in 2005 and 2006 was followed by an equally quick descent into oblivion. Assange and Witkowsky ...

70% of Child Prostitutes are Foster Children

According to FBI agent Gregory Christopher--who was recently named the State/Federal Law Enforcement Officer of the Year--"about 70 percent" of child prostitutes in the Tampa area are foster children. "A lot of these kids are foster kids, runaway kids. There's not a lot of people looking out for them. I'd say about 70 percent or so are foster kids." Last year, 22 children were removed from their pimps in Hillsborough and Pinellas county Florida. According to Christopher, "I have no doubt there's a lot more out there. I get at least two or three leads a week. We can't act on everything. There's no way." For the complete interview of Agent Christop...

International Perspective on Public Access to Juvenile Proceedings

Longtime contributer to this blog and internationally known social work expert Daniel Pollack has just published a fascinating article in the International Social Work Journal entitled Opening Juvenile Proceedings to the Public and the Media: An international Social Work Perspective. According to Professor Pollack, for youth offenders around the world, any contact with their country's juvenile justice system is serious business. In this concise legal note, Pollack discusses whether there should be a presumption that juvenile proceedings to be open or closed to the public and the media. Similarly, the article challenges the reader to consider how we ...

Amazon Presents a Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure

There simply are not enough hours in the day to smack down all the pedo material on Wikiepdia, Facebook and now Amazon. For once the mainstream media scooped this blog by reporting on a recently listed self-published e-book entitled The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct by "I-am-not-a-pedophile" author Philip R. Greaves II. There's lots to digest in this story which MSNBC has been following closely. I'm not sure where the story first originated, but needless to say it has spread quickly around the globe. According to this excellent story on MSNBC: The book, The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a ...

Facebook (STILL) Promoting Child Pornography

Infamous child pornographer Richard Steve Goldberg whose trademark r@ygold is a longtime, well-recognized tag for hardcore child pornography, has a Facebook interest group with almost 300 fans. Unfortunately, there's lots more thanks to an anonymous reader of this blog who assembled a damning cornucopia of profiles and links to such Facebook interest groups as "incest," "preteen hardcore," "our little group," and "lolita." Favorite activities ranged from "spanking kids," to "preteen hardcore lover," "incest," and "I like chubby boys." The well known East European child pornography studio, "LS Magazine," is also a frequently listed activity along ...

Judicial Stupidity – It’s Okay to Sue a Four Year Old Child

Justice Paul Wooten of State Supreme Court in Manhattan presumably doesn't have children. He also apparently doesn't have any common sense because he recently ruled that: Infants under the age of 4 are conclusively presumed incapable of negligence, Juliet Breitman, however, was over the age of 4 at the time of the subject incident. For infants above the age of 4, there is no bright-line rule. Juliet was 4 years 9 months old when her tricycle when she struck an 87-year-old woman who was walking in front of the building. Judge Wooten added that any “reasonably prudent child,” who presumably has been told to look both ways before crossing a ...

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