9 results for tag: Restitution


Restitution for Child Pornography Victims – what the government must do

Thanks to Professor Paul Cassell for this post on The Volokh Conspiracy involving one of my cases: Yesterday U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz of the District of Minnesota issued an interesting order regarding a restitution application in a child pornography case. In his order, found here, Judge Schiltz chastises the government for failing to pursue restitution for child pornography cases in his district, even though Congress has made restitution mandatory in such cases. Judge Schiltz wrote: This Court has recently handled a number of other child-pornography cases in which the United States Probation Office has identified victims who are ...

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 pornography, but had no actual contact with any of the victims. Since October, ...