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Child Pornography: Police
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Child pornography charges can arise from Internet searching activities that seem completely legal, on the surface. Every year hundreds of adults face child pornography charges after getting caught in Internet sting operations set up by police. Conviction requires an intent to commit the act, or mental state. If you were be sent pornography and did not know it, you did not intend the act and cannot be properly convicted.
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A Houston man has been charged with making and sending child pornography on the Internet to a police investigator posing as a teen-age girl. Jack Newton Tuller, 59, was arrested by federal authorities on Aug. 15, Aiken County Lt. Michael Frank said. An Aiken County investigator, who posed as 13-year-old girl, made contact with Tuller in July in an Internet chat room, Frank said. Tuller then engaged in sexually explicit conversation and transmitted child pornography to the investigator.
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[I]f you pose as a pedophile in an internet chatroom, your conversations could be used as evidence against you if you are found in possession of child pornography. Moreover, pretending to be a pedophile in an internet chatroom could disrupt a legitimate police "sting" operation. If you wish to monitor the internet and chatrooms for child pornography, be careful to keep an entirely passive role and report what you see to the police, FBI or ISP.
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Richmond's newly hired town planner has been charged in his hometown in Connecticut for possession of child pornography, a felony. George Russell, 54, of 25 Ridgewood Drive, Vernon, Conn., was arrested last Thursday after a months-long investigation by Vernon police and Connecticut State Police turned up 179 sexually explicit images of children and hundreds of stories of adults having sex with children.
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Police in nine European countries and the US have arrested about 25 people for allegedly violating child pornography laws. A police spokesman said arrests have been made in Britain, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark. He declined to name the other four European countries.
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Those who are arrested on charges of possession or distribution of child pornography generally receive lighter sentences and shorter parole periods than sexual abusers. They do not fit any criminal stereotype; recent arrests have included politicians, police officers, teachers and businessmen.
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