Bush Administration Should Protect Kids from Porn and Predators

Bush Administration Should Protect Kids from Porn and Predators

MEDIA ADVISORY, May 22 /Christian Newswire/ -- "Protecting children from Internet pornographers and predators needs to be the Bush Justice Department's key priority. Today's indictment of Loren Jay Adams, a fringe member of America's pornography empire, who focuses on human and animal sex, is the wrong strategy," said Patrick Trueman, former chief of the Department of Justice Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section. We need multiple prosecutions of Internet hardcore pornography that can be found in a matter of seconds by kids. The only deterrent pornographers recognize is loss of profits and significant jail time. When the Justice Department limits prosecutions to the most vile and bizarre of material, the porn industry sees a "green light" for all other forms of illegal pornography.

"In nearly eight years of the Bush Administration, we have yet to see one major Internet pornographer indicted," Trueman said. Illegal, hardcore pornography is exploding on the Internet and much of it is accessed by children. Tens of thousands of parents have complained to the Department but their pleas have been ignored. "It is time to make kids the priority and begin vigorous prosecution of the major Internet pornographers who violate U.S. laws. Allowing kids to have ready access to pornography is a form of child abuse."

There is another vitally important reason to prosecute illegal "adult" pornography, Trueman said. "Many males seeking adult Internet pornography will, over time, gravitate to child pornography and this is an important factor in the proliferation of such material. There is no wall on the Internet separating adult pornography from child pornography and very quickly, males looking for pornography will find sexually explicit images of children. Some males will develop a preference for images of children as they consume more and more child pornography. Their deviance is fed by child pornography traders who populate the Internet seeking trading partners. Traders seek original material not readily available on the Internet. Thus, a man wanting to trade will create original child porn by sexually abusing and photographing children, perhaps his own children, his relative's, his neighbor's or any available children," Trueman said.

America's booming child pornography problem will not be solved until the Department of Justice begins to vigorously enforce federal pornography laws, targeting adult pornography and child pornography.

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