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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Internet Child Porn, Second-hand Viewers, and Victim Restitution

As a guardian ad litem (GAL) and domestic relations mediator in New Mexico, I take special interest in unusual court cases involving children.  In the September 2012 ABA Journal, Lorelei Laird details the plight of several young women in their 20s who were sexually abused as small children by predators who then put pornographic images of the abuse on the Internet for others to access and enjoy.  Laird poses the question of "should those who download child pornography pay the victims and, if so, how much?"