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Outstanding local media coverage of the crime, prosecution and punishment of kiddle porn downloaders

By Douglas A. Berman

As regular readers know, I find the modern debates surrounding the law, policy and practice of child porn downloading offenses to be extremely interesting, important and challenging.  Consequently, I am always grateful when the media gives sustained attention to these issues, which defy simple characterizations and can be too readily misunderstood by simplistic reporting.  In turn, I am eager to praise both The Virginian-Pilot and the (Wilkes-Barre) Times Leader for outstanding coverage of these issues in two pairs of stories that ran this past weekend.  All the stories are must-reads. The two pieces from The Virginian-Pilot ? headlined "As child porn activity grows, efforts to trap offenders do, too" and "Leniency often granted in child porn cases" ? do a terrific job examining and reviewing the nature of the offenders who get involved in child porn downloading and the ways in which officials catch, prosecute and sentence these offenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 19, 2011 (boomark / email).