The Democratic gubernatorial candidate discussed how his office has used «hash values» (basically a collection of numerical data from the internet) to help create a
database of child pornography.
Under s. 163.1 (6), the Code states that a person can not be convicted
of a Child Pornography offence if the alleged act has (a) a legitimate purpose related to the administration of justice, science, medicine, education or art, and (b) that it does not pose an undue risk of harm to persons under 18 years old.
In an interesting case, Dennis v. Gray, the court was asked to determine whether a family with young children should be allowed to go ahead with their damages claim against the seller who failed to tell them one of the neighbours had been
convicted of child pornography offences.
Borden said he asked for more than the minimum sentence of six months for possession
of child pornography because Acheampong had a previous conviction in Maryland in 2004 for conspiracy to traffic heroin.
The bill was somewhat amended in Committee, notably to tie the
definition of child pornography more closely to the Criminal Code definition (though it's still not identical).
A former Rochester man was indicted on two
counts of child pornography charges on Friday according to the United States Attorney's Office of western New York...
To believe otherwise is to accept that the Supreme Court of Canada has endorsed, at various times, pornography of different varieties (including, in the Sharpe case, certain
forms of child pornography), certain forms of hate speech, children's advertising, I could go on.
As reflected by the recent controversy
of child pornography involving under - aged students in at least 70 public and private schools throughout Australia, the increased rate at which the use, and misuse, of technology in schools has generated a multitude of new legal issues surrounding the use of social and other digital media that most could not have anticipated a few short years ago.
According to the press release, cryptocurrencies might figure into cases of financial fraud in which «individuals entice unsuspecting people to purchase fake bitcoins,» the
purchase of child pornography, the bribing of public officials, money laundering, and terrorist financing.
Citing the
rise of child pornography and sexual tourism, he concludes that moral standards in society at large have broken down.»
Attorney General Andrew Guomo announces a new initiative to enable social networking sites to eliminate images
of child pornography Thursday at the YMCA in Fayetteville.
Banner said agents did find evidence that suggested Feldman was using a peer - to - peer program called eMule to exchange files with titles
suggestive of child pornography.
A Law Society of Ontario tribunal has rejected an interlocutory motion to suspend the licence of a lawyer
accused of child pornography offences.
At trial, Katigbak admitted that he possessed child pornography but he claimed he was going to create an educational / artistic exhibit with it to raise awareness of the
effects of child pornography and sexual abuse on children.
Fact of the matter seems to me to be that there is so much sexualization of young girls in our society generally that any steady gaze at advertising, for example, is bound to uncover many examples that would meet the
criterion of child pornography.
14; R. Michaels, «Criminal Law — The Insufficiency of Possession in
Prohibition of Child Pornography Statutes: Why Viewing a Crime Scene Should Be Criminal» (2008), 30 W. New Eng.
The
nature of child pornography related to a criminal conviction is relevant at sentencing because the more the nature of the content depicts violence or harm towards children, the more aggravating it will be for sentencing.
If you are convicted of the felony
offense of child pornography or aggravated child pornography you will be deemed to be a sexual predator and required to register with the state Sex Offender Registration.
The Court of Appeal held that the independent
material of child pornography found on a computer was not privileged and in its reasoning invoked the need to protect Art 3 (inhuman and degrading treatment rights) of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention).
The court in Dreyer struggled with the
discovery of child pornography by a naval officer on a file - sharing network, who confirmed that this person was not a member of the navy and then conveyed the information to local law enforcement.
A divided three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued an interesting ruling today in an appeal in which a criminal defendant challenges the search that discovered the
presence of child pornography on his computer.
1 Is Canada's law banning the possession
of child pornography constitutional or, conversely, does it unjustifiably intrude on the constitutional right of Canadians to free expression?