Federal Child Pornography Offenses – Report to Congress
This report is the result of a multi-year process in which the United States Sentencing Commission (“the Commission”) examined cases of offenders sentenced under the federal sentencing guidelines and corresponding penal statutes concerning child pornography offenses.
The purpose of this report is to contribute to the ongoing assessment by Congress and the various stakeholders in the federal criminal justice system regarding how federal child pornography offenders are prosecuted, sentenced, incarcerated, and supervised following their reentry into the communi...
Child Pornography: A Modern Day Childhood Gonorrhea Epidemic
I am reading a fascinating book by Lynn Sacco, an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, entitled Unspeakable: Father-Daughter Incest in American History.
Unspeakable is an excellent book which explains how cultural mores and political needs distorted attitudes toward and medical knowledge of patriarchal sexual abuse at a time when the nation was committed to the familial power of white fathers and the idealized white family.For much of the nineteenth century, father-daughter incest was understood to take place among all classes and ...
Justice Shouldn’t Expire – HBO Documentary
HBO Films presents: MEA MAXIMA CULPA: SILENCE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD
The Price of a Stolen Childhood
The New York Times Magazine has a feature article about the Marsh Law Firm's groundbreaking work over the past eight years to obtain restitution for child pornography victims. The story was over a year in the making. It’s a remarkable piece written by noted journalist Emily Bazelon and tells the tragic yet hopeful tale of two victims of child pornography and their quest to rebuild their lives.
The article appears here and will be included in this Sunday's New York Times.
Hildebran Elementary School Child Pornography Teacher Sex Abuse—Additional Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed
In an ever-widening child sex abuse case which started with an email to the Marsh Law Firm from a parent who was concerned about child pornography in her child's elementary school, an additional lawsuit claims the former principal was notified of the abuse years ago but took no action to protect students.
The family of another young child who attends Hildebran Elementary School in Burke County, North Carolina, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court sitting in Asheville, North Carolina.The lawsuit names as defendants Burke County Public Schools Board of Education, ...
Child Maltreatment 2011 – The Report
On February 7, 2013, at 1 p.m. E.T., the Children’s Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will host the 1-hour Webinar, Child Maltreatment 2011—Key Findings and Expanded Discussion to expound on the findings reported in Child Maltreatment 2011. The report presents national data about child abuse and neglect known to child protective services agencies during fiscal year 2011.
During FFY 2011, an estimated 3.4 million referrals, were received by CPS agencies. The national
estimate of 3.4 million ...
The trail of an international child-porn ring led to a tiny house in the woods outside St. Louis
This excellent article by journalist John H. Tucker appeared in a St. Louis paper, the Riverfront Times, last year. It's well-worth reading and illustrates how Internet technology facilitates the spread of criminal child pornography networks to even the smallest towns and villages.
The newspaper's cover story provided an account of the FBI's recent dismantling of "Lost Boy," an international, members-only online bulletin board operated by about three dozen child pornographers. The federal crackdown represented, at the time (in 2009), the largest disruption of a child ...