Tag: CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

The New Jersey Assembly passed a bill yesterday that essentially decriminalizes teen 'sexting,' by allowing the courts to send teens to a diversionary program, rather than strapping them with a criminal record. As sexting among teens grows increasingly popular -- the bill's sponsor, Assemblywoman Pam Lampitt, notes that 20-percent of teens surveyed have sent explicit images -- the legislation ...

Share 4Chan has landed itself in the middle of yet another FBI investigation. This time, though, the site is cooperating with authorities after a Michigan-based member named Ali Saad posted threats to go on a shooting rampage at his community college. Saad insists that his postings were in jest, but his claims that he could top the "high score" of Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho set off ...

Matthew White, of Sacramento, California, has found himself in a rather unfortunate situation; he's been accused of downloading child pornography. On the advice of his public defender, White is pleading guilty in hopes of cutting his potential 20-year sentence down to three and a half years. After serving his time, White will have to serve 10 years of probation and register as a sex offender. ...

Malware and viruses have a lot of tricks up their sleeves -- from stealing passwords and harvesting credit card information, to simply destroying data and crashing PCs. But of all those nasty abilities, the worst and most confounding is the ability to secretly load a PC with child pornography. It's difficult to understand the motives for dumping boatloads of child pornography on the hard drives ...

While repairing a Fairfield, Connecticut man's computer, an Apple Store employee discovered something horrible hidden on the hard drive. No, it wasn't the new Jonas Brothers album. That's only enough to bring shame, but the images discovered on the Power Mac G5 brought an arrest. According to the Stamford Advocate, 36-year-old Raymond Miller was arrested at the Stamford Town Center Apple Store ...

Despite their cute and cuddly LOL Web antics, cats can be cruel and vindictive creatures, frequently toying with their nearly dead and battered prey before finally dispatching it. According to Thursday's report in the TCPalm, a Florida man recently learned this lesson in feline sociopathy when his pet cat allegedly framed him for downloading child pornography The patsy, Keith Griffin, had ...

The FTC and a California district court judge are doing their parts to make sure the Internet is a safer place by last week shutting down the ISP and Web-hosting company Pricewert LLC -- also known by the aliases 3FN, Triple Fiber Network, APS Telecom and APS Communications. Pricewert has made its mark in the Web site hosting world by allegedly soliciting business from and shielding criminals ...

The practice of sexting is all over the news right now as more and more teens are getting caught sending provocative images to each other via cell phone messages. In a few cases, some of these teens are even being punished as child pornographers and being forced to register as sex offenders. One professor thinks that the scandal is being blown out of proportion, and frankly, we agree with him. ...

This week, University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center released a new study (PDF) of online child predators, and some of its findings may surprise you. While the report tends to get a bit technical, it has some interesting facts, which we've broken down for you below. First off, even though the study estimates that there were approximately 3,715 arrests of online ...

There is a warrant out for the arrest of 64-year-old, retired business man, Robert Zuelsdorf. The Poinciana, Florida resident sent in his PC to Information Technology and Data Solutions -- a computer repair service in Kissimmee -- to be serviced. When the technician was trying to transfer files from Zuelsdorf's PC, he spotted what appeared to be child pornography and called the police. Law ...