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The steady stream of child porn sentencings

By Douglas A. Berman

I continue to find notable how many seemingly upstanding citizens find there way into federal prison for downloading kiddie porn.  For example, the San Francisco Chronicle reports here that a "former aide to U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer was sentenced Friday to five years in federal prison for receiving child pornography."  Similarly consider these local articles here and here reporting on men who are 71 and 59 years old now getting long federal prison terms for obtaining child porn. I sure hope that anyone on-line looking for kiddie porn finds this blog post and realizes that the punishment for this activity is severe.  General deterrence is the strongest argument to support why seemingly law abiding persons who merely downloaded kiddie porn pictures should get such lengthy prison terms for their first offenses...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 02, 2009 (boomark / email).