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Crackdown on Child Pornography - Federal Action, Focused on Internet, Sets Off a Debate By Jerry Markon - Washington Post Staff Writer 12/15/07 Page A01 But an increase of Internet-fueled child pornography has triggered a new federal crackdown. Cybercrime, the majority of which involves child pornography, is now the FBI's third-highest priority, behind counterterrorism and counterintelligence. In the past 11 months, federal prosecutors in Virginia and Maryland have helped convict or send to prison on child pornography charges the former head of the Virginia American Civil Liberties Union, an Ivy League professor, a sheriff's deputy, a Transportation Security Administration employee, an Army sergeant, a former Navy cryptologist, a contractor working at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a National Institutes of Health researcher and a U.S. Capitol Police officer. "The problem is as bad as it appears," said Arnold E. Bell, unit chief of the FBI's Calverton-based Innocent Images National Initiative. "There are not enough badges out there to cover all the people to be had in terms of offenders."....Many defendants obsessively collect huge numbers of images -- the FBI recently seized a computer with 1.5 million images suspected to be child pornography -- and many have molested children, officials say. People who download the images once or twice, possibly by accident, are unlikely to be prosecuted, officials said....Michael Seto, a Canadian researcher, said he thinks that an "invisible population of pedophiles" has lived in society all along but remained mostly hidden until the Internet offered relative anonymity and a community of like-minded people....The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's CyberTipline received about 4,500 reports of children being victimized it its first year, 1998. This year the center, which works closely with law enforcement officials, has collected nearly 100,000 reports, more than 75 percent for online child pornography. But an increase in federal cases -- a 28 percent spike in fiscal 2007 compared with the year before -- could partly be due to a rise in the number of agents attacking the problem....The frequency at which people who view child pornography also molest children is a highly controversial issue and has been the subject of little research. The only federal agency that tries to track the correlation, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, says that about one-third of the 2,713 people it has arrested since 1997 on child exploitation charges, primarily for trafficking in child pornography, also committed "contact offenses" against children. A recent study of 155 federal inmates in North Carolina convicted on child pornography charges suggests that the number is higher. It found that 85 percent admitted molesting children. The study's co-author, Andres Hernandez, told Congress last year that "these Internet child pornographers are far more dangerous to society than we previously thought." But some people who treat sex offenders say the risk is often minimal. "There are a large group of individuals whose lives and families are absolutely being devastated because they looked at these images," said Fred Berlin, a psychiatrist who runs the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma, affiliated with Johns Hopkins University. "They had absolutely no idea how severe the consequences would be and had no interest in doing anything other than viewing images." _http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121402257.html_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121402257.html) Articles on the Wenatchee Case Doctor confirms abuse in sex-ring case - Associated Press - 12/5/96 One girl showed definite medical signs of sexual abuse and it could not be ruled for two others, a defense witness testified (Dr Deborah Harper)...in the child rape and molestation trial of a Pentacostal preacher and his wife ... Prosecutors allege unordained pastor Robert "Roby" Roberson and his wife, Connie, has sex with children at the East Wenatchee Pentacostal Church of God House and Prayer and at their home. _http://abusearticles.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/doctor-confirms-abuse.jpg_ (http://abusearticles.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/doctor-confirms-abuse.jpg) Consultant finds no fault in sex ring probe - 2/22/96 - Tri-City Herald - AP - “A consultant hired by the city's insurer to look into the way Wenatchee police conducted child sex-abuse investigations said...the cases were properly handled....A Justice Department Investigation...found no evidence of civil rights violations.” _http://abusearticles.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/consultant-finds-no-fault.jpg_ (http://abusearticles.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/consultant-finds-no-fault.jpg) **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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