35 results for tag: Child Pornography
Investigation Confirms Wikipedia-Pedophile Connection
According to a FOXNews.com exclusive investigation, inspired in part by this blog's April 20th post Wikipedophilia:
Wikipedia has become home base for a loose worldwide network of pedophiles who are campaigning to spin the popular online encyclopedia in their favor and are trying to lure more people into their world, an investigation by FoxNews.com confirms.
Chat room posts show a clear effort by pedophiles to use Wikipedia, which can be accessed unfiltered in public schools across the country, to further their agenda. Message board posts often include links to specific Wikipedia articles that the participants say need to be edited to "normalize" ...
Sexting Student Sues School
The ACLU filed a federal lawsuit today against Pennsylvania school district for searching a student's confiscated cell phone without probable cause and punishing her for storing semi-nude pictures of herself on the device. The school subsequently turned her phone over to George Skumanick Jr., at the time the Wyoming County district attorney, who threatened to file felony child pornography charges against the girl unless she took a class on sexual violence.
The Third Circuit recently threw out the prosecutor's case.
"Students do not lose their privacy rights at the schoolhouse door," said Witold Walczak, the ACLU of Pennsylvania's Legal Director and ...
Protect NCMEC?
The National Association to PROTECT Children, which describes itself as "a national pro-child, anti-crime membership association. . . . committed to building a powerful, nonpartisan force for the protection of children from abuse, exploitation and neglect," recently issued this rare rebuke of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children:
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) paid its CEO over $1.3 million in salary and compensation in 2008, the St. Petersburg Times reported last week, in an article now drawing fire from the group.
"In 2008, the latest year for which records are available, [Ernie] Allen made ...
Restitution for Child Porn Victims – The Debate Continues
Broadcast today on The Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU in Washington, DC:
Traditionally, courts have punished those convicted of possessing child pornography with heavy jail time. But in a growing trend, victims are demanding that offenders pay restitution too. The approach is generating debate about how far courts can go in punishing people who are caught with pornography, but aren't the direct perpetrators of the crime.
Listen to the re-broadcast here.
Lower Merion Parents Say No to Lawsuit
This just in from Philly.com:
A group of Lower Merion and Harriton High School parents met to discuss ways to derail the possibility that a federal lawsuit over laptop spying could lead to a lengthy and expensive class-action case against their district.
Bryn Mawr resident Michael Boni, one of the organizers, said yesterday: "We have spoken to our neighbors and friends, and it seemed that there was a groundswell of opposition to one family with one lawyer bringing this action on behalf of the community."
He said the parents were "not suggesting there weren't problems" with how the district has handled the laptop issue. "But we don't think [a class-...
Should Possessors of Child Pornography Pay Restitution to the Child?
FindLaw columnist and Cornell law professor Sherry Colb takes on a question involving my client that has sharply divided courts: Should a person who is found to have committed the crime of possessing child pornography be required to pay restitution to each child who appears in those images? The question has been posed very sharply recently, because images of one child victim -- whose pseudonym is "Amy" -- have been at issue in 350 criminal cases across the country. Moreover, the difference in the amount of restitution awarded in those cases is dramatic: Two Florida judges together awarded over three million dollars; a California judge awarded only ...
School District PREYing on Students
The Lower Merion School District recently admitted to activating the webcams on 42 "missing" school-owned laptops without the knowledge or permission of students and their families. Surprisingly, the software that performs this function is not only widely available, it's free and downloadable by anyone.
One such program is called Prey. It's open source and was recently discussed in this TechRepublic video.
Prey is a lightweight program which runs in the background and is completely hidden to the end user. It's built in modules so an administrator can choose whether or not to install certain features like the ability to activate a laptop's webcam. ...