but why are you guys all so upset about that? you voted to make that legal like5 or 6 years ago when bush was in office..

The Jehovah’s Witnesses religion requires TWO WITNESSES to a crime before they will consider it to have happened. How often are there two witnesses of an act of pedophilia?

Settlement with victims of child abuse have required the victim to sign a gag order as documented by NBC.

Please protect your children.

Sexual Abuse/Child abuse issues among Jehovah’s Witnesses
http://www.exjws.net/sexabuse/

Was it a story of him harmlessly kissing a young person on the cheek wishing them a happy birthday, or was it something more sinister such as very seriously harming a child mentally/physically/emotionally/sexually?

I suspect it was truly something disturbing which is why such serious measures were taken to nip it in an early stage.

I’m waiting for the day when “phallometric testing” becomes a routine part of police procedure. Just like a person jailed for internet copyright infringement being forced to provide DNA samples.

The shining ?
A young boy repeatedly exposed to sex and nudity by ‘ghosts’.

I’ll wait and see when his try date is set.

PROTECT YOUR DATA!
Most of these cases you read about have someone like Best Buy or Wal*Mart reporting it to the police.

You’re an idiot if you let some unknown persons access to all your personal data, god knows what can incriminate you these days. (Certainly doesn’t have to be even child porn related anymore as we all know).

People should use something like Windows bitlocker (or a free alternative) if they MUST let someone untrustworthy have physical access to their computer.
Nothing would of came to this if there was an encrypted volume involved, nobody would know what was in it.

I remember hearing a story in art history class last year that was truly ridiculous. An artist had been charged and had his work confiscated from a gallery for displaying pornographic drawings of children in his gallery exhibition. But here’s the thing: The drawings in question were based on real-life testimonies from adults who had been sexually abused as children, and had given the artist full permission to display the images in hopes of raising awareness about the issue. So he was actually trying to protect kids by bringing more attention to the problem, and ended up facing accusations of being a pedophile.

What if someone tells another person or group an erotic story involving sex with, say, a 17 year old – orally from memory – with nothing written down on a piece of paper. Would that person be violating the law as well? If so, then the state is very literally criminalising thought itself.
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indeed this is true

see here:
Your Obscene Printed Manga is Illegal….
U.S. Manga Obscenity Conviction Roils Comics World

* By David Kravets Email Author
* May 28, 2009 |
* 12:00 am |
* Categories: Crime, The Courts, porn

In an obscenity first, a U.S. comic book collector has pleaded guilty to importing and possessing Japanese manga books depicting illustrations of child sex abuse and bestiality.

Christopher Handley, described by his lawyer as a “prolific collector” of manga, pleaded guilty last week to mailing obscene matter, and to “possession of obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children.” Three other counts were dropped in a plea deal with prosecutors.

The 39-year-old office worker was charged under the 2003 Protect Act, which outlaws cartoons, drawings, sculptures or paintings depicting minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct, and which lack “serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.” Handley’s guilty plea makes him the first to be convicted under that law for possessing cartoon art, without any evidence that he also collected or viewed genuine child pornography. He faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.

Comics fans are alarmed by the case, (.pdf), saying that jailing someone over manga does nothing to protect children from sexual abuse.

“This art that this man possessed as part of a larger collection of manga … is now the basis for [a sentence] designed to protect children from abuse,” says Charles Brownstein, executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. “The drawings are not obscene and are not tantamount to pornography. They are lines on paper.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/manga-porn/
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I don’t understand how this guys is a sex offender but the people that made Saw walk-free.

This ruling sickens me, it should never have happened. But if you say think of the children then due process and rational thought are out the window.

Also, whats innocent about you reading more than a couple of lines of his private works on this persons PC (which is like a diary these days) as you pass by?

Were people arrested for what their private thoughts they wrote in their diaries/journals and shared with no one? This normal? Normal for you to innocently rummage through it? Or is this trespassing on someones privacy?