A 44 year old man from Dundalk, Maryland, is facing 11 charges for child pornography offenses, five counts of receipt of child pornography, five counts of transportation of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography. He got caught in an FBI investigation that targeted sharers of child porn on P2P networks. Project Safe Childhood was created by Attorney General Alberto ... [ read the full article ]
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Remove them from the gene pool? Rot in prison? I just don't get it. The people being nailed to the stake may very well be the children of yesterday that you once defended, that are screwed up because they themselves were abused. Maybe it didn't affect them to the extent that they go out and perform the same acts on other children. They go as far as downloading pictures and get their jolly's in private. Can that lead to action? Yes, probably. Which is why if caught with pictures, something should be done as a preventive measure, other than incarceration. Therapy, or have a court order to keep them off the internet. Save the severe punishment for that person if he/she decides to act on those debased cravings. Make them realize that there are consequences for continued viewing and obtaining. Many people may go for years without getting caught. In most cases of troubled and abused people, the reality of what is wrong sets in when it is brought to light and shown in their face. These harsh punishments for thinking the wrong way do society no good. It's elitist and pigheaded to believe that anyone who doesn't think like you should be punished. The world is too diverse and the reality of may peoples lives are too severe to think that way. There are too many crimes committed against people and too little compassion. The fact that people are thrown into prison for viewing anything is troubling. Viewing is not the same thing as acting. If people were not viewing, I guarantee that the violent acts against children would still go on. Just fewer people may know about it, including the authorities.
Now I can understand if there was evidence that he was tied to an inner circle that actually did the abusing. Anyone who abuses anyone else in any form should be punished. And with a child, it should be severe IMO. If I found out that my neighbor abused my child, I would personally beat him to a bloody pulp and gouge his eyeballs out with a spoon. But I agree with Zippy. The punishment has to fit the crime. I don't defend this guy specifically, since I don't know the inner details of the case, but my opinion is that viewing should not hold the same weight as acting in such a debased way.
Quote:therefore should be removed from society if for no other reason than to stop him from distributing this kind of perverse material to others.
What others is he distributing to besides other pedophiles? The average person does not stumble on chld porn and become addicted. IMO, if someone is out looking for it, then the people who have it are just like him/her. If someone like that did not have internet access, they would probably be getting their jolly's alone somewhere.
Originally posted by tonywilson: Did this man harm... Was this man creating... Did this man profit... [then] what exactly is the crime?
He was perpetuating a behavior per-designated by our society as being illegal. Then judged by a jury of his peers & summarily ruled to be guilty of all counts in violations there of. Had it just been HIM, no one else, deplorable as our society deems it, the attention to his behavior would have gone unnoticed & rendered your argument somewhat valid.
Given that adults in compromising sexual poses (in most part) are compensated & doing so under their own free will, children in these case are most certainly NOT. We in this case don't know all the details (I'm not so sure I want to know, I've worked a few child abuse cases) & can certainly find no reason on this planet to justify objectifying children for this kind of gratification.
Thus, it wasn't the "Thought Police" that arrested him. It was the Kiddy Porn patrol that arrested him. Pedophiles will justify their behavior in the most convincing manner imaginable & strikingly by berrying under layers of removed guilt. I.e., if you hadn't built that grade school 50 years ago in front of me I wouldn't have molested those 15 kids when I moved in here last month.
Originally posted by tonywilson: Did this man harm a child? Was this man creating the images by photographing or video taping someone harming a child? Did this man profit from or finance from the distribution of the pornography? If the answer to these questions is no, than what exactly is the crime?
If looking at pictures of an illegal activity is a crime, wouldn't it be a crime to buy an issue of "High Times"? Wouldn't it be a crime to see videos of violence and assault on the local news everyday? When someone could go to jail for looking at a picture, what's next - arresting someone for "bad" thoughts?
every time someone downloads or views child porn they are harming children.do you think that if no one had anything to do with it it would be as big as it is? that children would be bought and sold and exploited as they are? you may not be harming them directly but there is no difference in my eyes.
