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"New legal issue: Payment for child porn victims"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new AP piece, which effectively reviews the robust legal and policy debates over whether restitution orders should be a big part of federal child porn sentencing proceedings.  Here are excerpts: The issue of criminal restitution in child pornography possession cases emerged last February in Connecticut when a federal judge said he would order a man convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography to pay about $200,000 to Amy.  The judge said it was the first criminal case in which someone convicted of possessing illegal images ? but not creating them ? would be required to pay restitution.  (The case settled for $130,000 before the judge issued his final order.) Since then, requests for restitution have picked up as more victims are identified ? and as a couple of victims, including Amy, have hired attorneys, said Meg Garvin, executive director of the National Crime Victim Law Institute in Portland, Ore...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 08, 2010 (boomark / email).