Sexting Victim is also the Perpetrator

More on the criminal prosecution of the 14 year old NJ girl who posted 30 nude images to her MySpace account: A key hurdle for prosecutors is that technology has outpaced the legal system. Most states don't have laws specifically addressing teens who transmit explicit images, a practice sometimes referred to as "sexting." The only New Jersey laws applicable to the Clifton case are those designed for sexual predators and child pornography traffickers, said Parry Aftab, executive director of the nonprofit group WiredSafety.org. Nonetheless, the consequences could be ...

Sexting Students Strike Back

Whether it's just a fad or something more, the sexting issue continues to make headline news. Here's an interesting twist to the teen craze from where else but Pennsylvania. Today, child porn advocates from the ACLU of PA will ask a federal judge in Scranton to issue an injunction to protect three teenage girls from the threat of criminal charges for using their cell phones to take and send semi-nude images of themselves. The suit accuses the Wyoming County DA of violating the three girls' First Amendment rights and seeks a court declaration that the images "are not child ...

ExOb (Child Porn Allegations in Rural Indiana)

Rural Indiana babysitters create child porn video showing them raping children between ages of 2 months & 6 years Link

Express Observation (Pedo-Polanski Whitewash)

Great piece on Salon.com called Whitewashing Roman Polanski on why pedo-Polanski should not be given leniency Link

A New Frontier for Victims of Child Pornography

Lest anyone think that all I do is sit around and pontificate all day, our law firm has actual clients with some groundbreaking issues. Yesterday, a federal judge in Bridgeport, Connecticut established a "new frontier" in favor of exploited children when he ordered a wealthy former Pfizer executive to pay about $200,000 to our client, a girl whose images the executive had obtained through the Internet from another collector of child pornography. The ruling, the first of its kind in the country, comes against Alan Hesketh, a man who downloaded, viewed and traded child ...