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As child porn activity grows, efforts to trap offenders do too

By "eAdvocate"

1-16-2011 Virginia: Just six years out of high school, ____ ruined his life for a perverted thrill: He downloaded pictures of children being molested. He knew what he was doing was wrong and illegal. He knew he was risking his rising Navy career. But he couldn't stop. Like many child pornography addicts, he organized his collection like a librarian arranges books, and his fetish grew more bizarre as time passed. And like many offenders, ___ had a sense of relief when he was finally caught. Already dishonorably discharged, he's now serving 12˝ years in federal prison. "I'd just like to say that I'm entirely sorry for what I did," he said at his sentencing. "I never had any intention of harming anybody." His mother wept quietly in the back of Courtroom 2 in Norfolk's U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on January 16, 2011 (boomark / email).