philstar.com MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) - President Arroyo has signed Republic Act 9775 or the Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009 which seeks to make Filipino children less vulnerable to the illicit trade by imposing stiff penalties on anyone found guilty of any form of involvement in child pornography and enjoining private entities to help in the effort, [...]
Twenty years ago the United Nations adopted the Convention of the Rights of the Child. The CRC or UNCRC, is an international treaty setting out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of children. Nations that ratify the UNCRC are bound to it by international law.As of December 2008, 193 signatories have ratified it, including every member of the United Nations except the US and...
Associated Press - November 20, 2009 9:25 PM ET LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A veteran from Tennessee who admitted sending child pornography on the Internet and asking two Kentucky women to help set...
The Pope has appointed a new bishop to a Nova Scotia diocese shaken by allegations that its former religious leader was in possession of child pornography.
The Roman Catholic Church has appointed a replacement for Bishop Raymond Lahey, of the Diocese of Antigonish, N.S., who is facing child pornography charges.
A registered sex offender faces 23 counts of possessing child pornography and one count of lewd and lascivious molestation after he was found having sex with a girl younger than 16, Indian Shores police say.
TSA exceeded its administrative search authority by searching for child pornography in defendant's luggage. Whatever authority TSA had to search photographs for "sheet explosives," this search was not for that purposes by the way it was conducted. United States v. McCarty, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 107387 (D. Haw. November 16, 2009): Despite the testimony indicating that the TSA employees searched...
ADAMS - A veteran Adams police officer accused of viewing child pornography on a computer in the evidence room at the police station has resigned. The North Adams Transcript...
RUTLAND, VT—A Vermont resident has been sentenced to 151 months in federal after his guilty plea to charges that he produced child pornography at his residence, located at 21 Royce Street in Rutland. Because Allan Edward Patrick, 58, used his residence to facilitate his criminal conduct, the District Court ordered the defendant to forfeit that residence [...]
Nexus to defendant’s home was shown by defendant’s possession of physical child porn images and downloaded them. If he downloaded them, it logically would be at home. United States v. Potts, 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 25130 (10th Cir. November 16, 2009).* Applying these factors to the circumstances of this case, we hold that the magistrate judge had a substantial basis for determining probable...
A 30-year-old man was arrested after a search of his home turned up kiddie porn on his computer Thursday. Detectives said they found a laptop computer which contained several images of child pornography.
A former respected Toronto Fire captain who hid his private world of "depravity" was sentenced yesterday to 45 months for child pornography, weapons and marijuana convictions.
A former Grosse Pointe South High School hockey coach pleaded guilty Thursday to child pornography charges in federal court in Detroit. Robert Bopp, 53, of Taylor faces a minimum of 15 years in prison for the three charges, stemming from an investigation of the sexual assault of a Farmington Hills boy.
A Northport man was sentenced in U.S. District Court earlier this week on charges of receiving or possessing child pornography. Darrell Dwayne Thrasher, 50, was sentenced on Wednesday to eight years and one month in prison, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Birmingham.