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Articles on Child Exploitation
"Let's Fight This Terrible Crime Against Our Children"
by Andrew Vachss, PARADE Magazine (Feb. 2006) This powerful look at the issue of child pornography had major national influence
"Parents Seek More Funds for Child Pornography Victims" by Wendy Koch, USA Today (Feb. 2008) Includes state-by-state suspect count
"Limited Funds Hinder Child Porn Fight" by Wendy Koch, USA Today (April 2008)
"From Fantasy to Reality : The Link Between Viewing Child Pornography and Molesting Children" by Candace Kim, American Prosecutors Research Institute (2005)
Studies, Reports
"Child Pornography Possessors Arrested in Internet-Related Crimes," UNH, NCMEC, OJJDP (2005) Detailed findings on nature of child pornography, characteristics of possessors and incidence of "dual offenders"
"Child Pornography: Model Legislation and Global Review," International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (2006) "95 Countries have no legislation at all that specifically addresses child pornography."
"Sexual Exploitation of Children Over the Internet," U.S. House Energy and Commerce Staff Report (2007)
"Child pornography: images of the abuse of children," by Susan J. Creighton, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (2003)
Promise to Protect Backgrounder: "What is the Magnitude of Child Exploitation in the U.S.?"
Congressional Testimony
Andres Hernandez, PhD, "The Face of the Predator and Other Issues," Testimony Before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee (2006) "...Internet child pornographers are far more dangerous to society than we previously thought."
Andrew Vachss, Testimony Before the United States National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (1998) "...We can increase radically our protection of children without trampling on the First Amendment"
Grier Weeks, Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee , Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs (2008) "Law enforcement is now providing you with information that can lead
authorities, very predictably, to tens of thousands of locations within
the United States where children are in immediate danger and waiting
for help."
Grier Weeks, Testimony Before the U.S. Judiciary Committee (2007) "By the end of the Megan’s Law decade, America ended up with an enormous surplus of rhetoric about sex offenders and a severe deficit of resources to do anything about them."
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