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If you want to feel good about the Williams ruling...

By Douglas A. Berman

check out this stunning article by Jamie Satterfield writing in the Knoxville News about efforts to combat child porn producers. The article is titled, "Local, national and global efforts track sex offenders who prey on children," and it highlights how the Internet has changed the dimesions of this problem:For as long as humans have existed, there have been those among us who view children, even babies, as objects of sexual desire.... But the advent of the Internet has, in the words of a veteran federal prosecutor, "exploded" the crime into a societal issue so huge that it requires a host of agencies and a litany of initiatives to combat. "I think we're certainly more aggressive in prosecuting these cases, but there's no doubt in my mind the Internet has exploded this," Knoxville Assistant U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 19, 2008 (boomark / email).