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Tag Archives: child pornography

Nov 11 2012
Mark Twain, probably

Ohio attorney creates fake child porn for case, now must pay $300,000

Ohio attorney creates fake child porn for case, now must pay $300,000

Cyrus Farivar on Ars Technica:

In case it wasn’t clear, you can definitely be busted for digitally manipulating photographs to make them look like child pornography—or as it’s sometimes called, child abuse imagery. And even if it wasn’t against the law, it’s certainly a terrible idea. Still, that didn’t stop an Ohio lawyer and former state prosecutor—who has often been called upon as an expert witness to testify that child porn laws are so overbroad that they cover fictional, digitally altered photos—from doctoring up his own.

On Friday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled in favor of a district court in Ohio that had previously found Dean Boland, a self-described “qualified computer expert,” liable to pay $300,000 to the families of the two girls that brought suit against him.

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Oct 09 2011
Mark Twain, probably

Police arrest man for child pornography after tipoff from burglars

Police arrest man for child pornography after tipoff from burglars

Kim Hutcherson, CNN:

A central California man has been arrested for possession of child pornography, thanks to a tip from burglars who robbed the man’s property, authorities said.

Last month, a juvenile and a 19-year-old illegally accessed the property of Kraig Stockard, 54, of Delhi, California, according to a statement from Deputy Tom MacKenzie of the Merced County Sheriff’s Department. They broke into Stockard’s barn and stole approximately 50 CDs they believed were blank.

Stockard filed a police report on the incident on September 12, according to MacKenzie.

But the young people who stole the CDs were in for a surprise. When they began putting the discs into their computer, they discovered that some of them contained pornographic images of children, the statement said.

Despite having obtained the CDs under decidedly shady circumstances, the pair decided to report Stockard to the police.

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