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DayDreamer
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posted February 27, 2007 05:11 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here are just a few February 2007 news stories on Child Porn in America...

Ex-ACLU president accused of child pornography http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idarticle=8128


National Speaker Pleads Guilty to Transporting Child Pornography http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-2 6-2007/0004534920&EDATE=


Navy Officer Accused In Child Pornography Case http://www.nbc4.com/news/11117593/detail.html


Pediatrician Sentenced to 15 months in Prison for Child Porn http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070227-9999-1m27porn.html


Man Accused Of Watching Child Porn At Library http://keyetv.com/national/topstories_story_058110049.html


Principal in child porn probe http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/NEWS/702250475/1008/NEWS02[/ URL]


Man indicted on 149 child pornography counts [URL=http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/NEWS02/702250347/1009]http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/NEWS02/70 2250347/1009


Arlington Youth Coach Charged With Child Porn Possession http://www.nbc4.com/news/11097991/detail.html

U.S. judge sentenced in child-porn case uncovered by Canadian hacker http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=cfdc2358-7342-4f 3f-a675-caf690ee5c98&k=37956


Doctor pleads guilty in child porn case http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=42628


Former Komen Foundation head admits possessing child porn http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/laworder/story /8B6E2685B8731FB88625728A005E5C6F?OpenDocument

Lawyer charged in church child porn case http://www.thestamfordtimes.com/stamford_templates/stamford_story/364622890719703.php[/UR L]


Child porn printed at library: Hingham police notified; Level 3 sex offender from Norwell arrested [URL=http://www.patriotledger.com/articles/2007/02/21/news/news03.txt]http://www.patriotledger.com/articles/2007/02/21/news/news03.txt


Former Professor Pleads Guilty To Child Porn http://cbs3.com/topstories/local_story_052080637.html


Foster Parent Faces More Child Porn Charges http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_047094652.html


Teacher arrested for child porn http://www.waltontribune.com/story.lasso?ewcd=797ac09831eb1c85

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Dulce Luna
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posted February 28, 2007 09:26 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dulce Luna     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yeah, but somehow we are now going to tie it to America because if it happens here...then all Americans must be Kiddie porn addicts, right DD?

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jwhop
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posted February 28, 2007 10:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What is the common unifying theme running through all these individual cases?


Busted and prosecuted
Ex-ACLU president accused of child pornography
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idarticle=8128

Busted and prosecuted
National Speaker Pleads Guilty to Transporting Child Pornography

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-2 6-2007/0004534920&EDATE=

Busted and prosecuted
Navy Officer Accused In Child Pornography Case

http://www.nbc4.com/news/11117593/detail.html

Busted and prosecuted
Pediatrician Sentenced to 15 months in Prison for Child Porn

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070227-9999-1m27porn.html

Busted and prosecuted
Man Accused Of Watching Child Porn At Library

http://keyetv.com/national/topstories_story_058110049.html

Busted, put on administrative leave and investigated
Principal in child porn probe

http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/NEWS/702250475/1008/NEWS02 [/ URL]

Same case as above...Pfeil...principal on administrative leave facing indictment and prosecution
Man indicted on 149 child pornography counts

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/NEWS02/70 2250347/1009

Same case as first case listed..former ACLU President...Busted and prosecuted
Arlington Youth Coach Charged With Child Porn Possession

[URL=http://www.nbc4.com/news/11097991/detail.html]http://www.nbc4.com/news/11097991/detail.html

Busted, indicted and entered guilty plea..sentenced to prison
U.S. judge sentenced in child-porn case uncovered by Canadian hacker

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=cfdc2358-7342-4f 3f-a675-caf690ee5c98&k=37956

Busted, indicted, entered guilty plea, facing sentencing
Doctor pleads guilty in child porn case

http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=42628

Busted, entered guilty plea, awaiting sentencing
Former Komen Foundation head admits possessing child porn

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/laworder/story /8B6E2685B8731FB88625728A005E5C6F?OpenDocument

Busted, indicted, entered guilty plea, awaiting sentencing
Lawyer charged in church child porn case

http://www.thestamfordtimes.com/stamford_templates/stamford_story/364622890719703.php [/UR L]

Busted, in jail awaiting next court date
Child porn printed at library: Hingham police notified; Level 3 sex offender from Norwell arrested

http://www.patriotledger.com/articles/2007/02/21/news/news03.txt

Busted, plead guilty, awaiting sentencing
Former Professor Pleads Guilty To Child Porn

[URL=http://cbs3.com/topstories/local_story_052080637.html]http://cbs3.com/topstories/local_story_052080637.html

Busted, in jail, facing additional counts
Foster Parent Faces More Child Porn Charges

http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_047094652.html

Busted, charged and awaiting trial
Teacher arrested for child porn

http://www.waltontribune.com/story.lasso?ewcd=797ac09831eb1c85


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jwhop
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posted February 28, 2007 11:49 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
ACLU exec busted for child porn in court today
Former Virginia chapter president accused of downloading graphic assault videos
Posted: February 28, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
WorldNetDaily.com


A former American Civil Liberties Union executive, who once argued that Internet filters in libraries that limited children's access to pornography would interfere with their ability to learn and communicate, is facing a federal court hearing today on charges he possessed child pornography.

The preliminary hearing is scheduled in court in the Eastern District of Virginia for Charles Rust-Tierney, 51, of Arlington, Va., who has been held in custody in the case since his arrest. According to report on the case, Rust-Tierney admitted to investigators he had downloaded videos and images from child pornography websites onto CD-ROMS, which reportedly depicted graphic forcible assaults on young girls.

Rust-Tierney, who served as president of the Virginia ACLU chapter for several years, was the lawyer who argued against Internet filters in libraries in the early 2000s when the ACLU was opposing the Children's Internet Protection Act, which later was approved by Congress.

Donna Rice Hughes, president of Enough is Enough, a website dedicated to protecting children from the dangers on the Internet, had worked on CIPA, and then served as an expert witness for the defendant when Tierney and the ACLU sued over the filters.

"That Mr. Rust-Tierney, a leading proponent of unrestricted access to the Internet, has now been arrested for receiving and possessing graphic child pornography should serve as testimony to the injudicious and baleful outgrowth of the legal challenges launched by the ACLU questioning the constitutionality of important legislation that protects children from Internet exploitation and content harmful to minors," the organization said in a statement released by Enough is Enough spokeswoman Cris Clapp.

"When Mr. Rust-Tierney argued before the Loudoun County Library Board that unrestricted access to the resources of the Internet was essential for our children's ability to learn and communicate, and when groups like the ACLU contend that acceptable use policies alone are capable of protecting children online, they fail to acknowledge the tragic and devastating effects to children and families of both intentional and unintentional access to online pornography," the statement said.

CIPA was stricken by a lower court, but that decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003, providing what Enough is Enough describes as "a landmark victory for child Internet safety protection."

The investigation that resulted in Rust-Tierney's arrest was conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, as well as Arlington County police as part of the Northern Virginia and District of Columbia Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

The explicitness of the offending videos is evidenced by the reports that in one of the scenes a prepubescent girl is "seen and heard crying" and another is described as "bound by rope."

Rust-Tierney's arrest was announced after his initial appearance before United States Magistrate Judge Barry R. Poretz, who ordered him held until a subsequent hearing.

Rice Highes had advised Congress on the CIPA proposal, but her organization confirmed that an analysis shows that still more than 20,000 images of child pornography are posted on the Internet every week.

"Studies have demonstrated that early exposure to pornography is related to greater involvement in deviant sexual practices, particularly rape. Additionally, studies have confirmed that among child molesters incited, over half deliberately used the stimuli of pornography as they prepared to offend," the group said.

"The addictive qualities of pornography combined with the fact that habitual consumption of pornography can result in a diminished satisfaction with mild forms of pornography and a correspondingly strong desire for more deviant and violent material poses a direct threat to the safety of our children," the group said.

The group also noted that the fact Rust-Tierney "was serving as a youth sports leader is highly concerning."

"Groups like the ACLU, which in the ACLU Policy Number 4 ascribes to the belief that child exposure to explicit material and juvenile delinquency have never been carried to the point of definitive proof, and which ultimately propounds the legality of child pornography, represent an incredibly radical and malevolent agenda that clearly results in the exploitation of our children," the group said.

Rice Hughes is an internationally known Internet safety expert and advocate, and a leader of national efforts to protect children from sexual predators and Internet porn. Her book, "Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace" was called a "powerful tool for parents" and has been translated into Spanish and Korean.

The Washington Times reported that an ICE agent said in a sworn affidavit that Rust-Tierney had subscribed to various child-pornography web sites in recent years.

The overall national ACLU's stance on pornography was made clear when in 1985 Barry Lynn told the U.S. Attorney General's Commission on Pornography that child pornography was protected by the First Amendment.

A StopTheACLU website notes that the organization still represents such groups as the North American Man-Boy Love Association and John Roberts, of the ACLU's Boston branch, said, "Mere possession should not be a crime."

Fox News' Bill O'Reilly called it a "horrifying" case. And he noted that the two "biggest left-wing outfits in the country – the New York Times and NBC News – ignored the story entirely." CBS News, CNN and most of the big city liberal newspapers also failed to cover the Rust-Tierney arrest, Fox said.

"Now the failure of most media outlets to cover this colossal embarrassment to the ACLU contrasts vividly with the coverage of preacher Ted Haggard, which embarrassed conservative Christians. You remember when Haggard was accused of immorality by a male prostitute, the story was all over the place."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54471

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nattie33
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posted February 28, 2007 03:30 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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DayDreamer
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posted February 28, 2007 08:44 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That's very scary Nattie...Hope justice prevails.

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nattie33
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posted February 28, 2007 09:53 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thank You. We are coming up on a year since this happened. We decided to move out of maine. This has been a very bad place for us.

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TINK
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posted February 28, 2007 10:20 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thank God we deported that Canadian pediatrician. We need to put up a fence and keep those perverted Canadians out. ASAP.

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DayDreamer
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posted March 07, 2007 11:41 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ex-con guilty in Fla. girl's slaying

By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer

MIAMI - A sex offender was found guilty Wednesday of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl and burying her alive in a case that led to a crackdown around the country on people convicted of sex crimes. Jurors deliberated about four hours before returning the verdict against John Evander Couey in the slaying of Jessica Lunsford, who was snatched from her bedroom in February 2005 about 150 yards from the trailer where Couey had been living.

Her body was found in a shallow hole, encased in two black plastic trash bags. She had suffocated and was found clutching a purple stuffed dolphin.

Couey, 48, was found guilty of first-degree murder, sexual battery on a child, kidnapping and burglary. The jury next must decide whether he should get death by injection or life in prison.

Couey stood staring straight ahead and swaying slightly as the verdicts were read. Jessica's father, Mark Lunsford, who has helped push efforts for tougher monitoring of sex offenders, showed no emotion.

Outside the courtroom, Mark Lunsford said that he believed all along "that justice would prevail" in his daughter's murder but that the case wasn't complete until a sentence is imposed.

"This is only the first part. We've still got the second part," he said.

Circuit Judge Richard Howard will ultimately decide whether Couey should be sentenced to death. He is not required to follow the jury's recommendation, but judges give the recommendation great legal weight.

Couey admitted to investigators shortly after his arrest that he committed the crime, but the confession was thrown out because he did not have a lawyer present as he had requested.

"I felt confident that we had an overwhelming amount of facts we could present to the jury," said Brad King, chief prosecutor in the case, outside the courthouse after the verdict.

The evidence at trial included DNA from Jessica's blood and Couey's semen on a mattress in his bedroom, as well as Jessica's fingerprints in a closet in the trailer.

Jail guards and investigators testified that Couey repeatedly admitted details of the slaying after his arrest and that he insisted he had not meant to kill the third-grader but panicked as police searched for her.

Couey had a record as a sex offender. In 1991, he was arrested on a charge of fondling a child. In 1978, he was accused of grabbing a girl in her bedroom, placing his hand over her mouth and kissing her.

But authorities had not known that Couey was living near the Lunsford home even though he was required to tell them he had moved.

Jessica's killing prompted Florida and a number of other states to pass new laws cracking down on sex offenders and improve tracking of them through databases and satellite positioning devices.

Sentencing is to begin Tuesday. A psychologist testified for the defense that Couey has signs of mental illness and mental retardation, mitigating circumstances that could help spare him the death penalty.

Couey spent much of the trial drawing with colored pencils.

The trial was moved from Citrus County in central Florida to Miami because of intense local media coverage.

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Mirandee
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posted March 08, 2007 01:29 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
They should all get the death penalty or be put away for life somewhere.

Sorry but I have no compassion for anyone who does any kind of harm to a child.

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Dulce Luna
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posted March 08, 2007 07:20 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dulce Luna     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I watched about that Florida case last night.....how sick of that guy to bury a girl alive (let alone rape her).

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Eleanore
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posted March 08, 2007 07:45 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Eleanore     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
There is no excuse for that. There just aren't words to express the kind of searing anger and pain this causes.

Where ever Jessica may be, I hope she's found peace. I pray her family and friends also find peace and keep pushing forward in their lives despite this monster's horrendous actions against such a beautiful, innocent child.

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nattie33
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posted March 08, 2007 04:37 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
it is awful. this is a very scary world we live in. We have to try so hard to keep our kids safe. Taken from her bedroom. Kids should be safe in there own home. my heart goes out to her Father.

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nattie33
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posted March 08, 2007 04:38 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Sorry i pressed disable smiley in this post. it didn't go through.

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