Not Baltimore but... can you imagine having your job be to look at child pornography all day? Gah! I wonder what Julie Drake does to not go insane. Related: child sex offender George H. Jones Jr. was convicted Wednesday for attacking his 10-year-old stepdaughter.
The man shot by police on Cold Spring Lane was not wielding a knife, but a "knifelike object." He's been identified as Sheron Jackson, 21, and for the first time in years the BPD has identified the officer: Michael Gordon, 25.
Testimony has begun in the re-trial of the Johnson twins, accused of setting a pit bull terrier on fire.
A 15th suspect has pleaded guilty to fraud and identity theft charges in a scheme that stole credit card numbers from people who owed money to the Johns Hopkins School of Business. Here's a business question, who has to suck up that $880,000?
A decade in prison for a NJ guy who brought cocaine bricks to MD in a rental car.
Tweeted by Fenton: a court opinion defines "rough ride."
Yeah, I know I already blogged this story about the House passing a bill that will retroactively make the no-bid contracts for the $tate Center projects legal. But I am still pissed off so I'm posting it again.
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If you are traveling down the road with 13 kilos of coke in a duffel bag I just don't understand why you wouldn't observe the speed limit, wear your seat belt and keep your hands on the steering wheel in the 10 and 2 position.
Here's a perfectly nice transportation specialist in a rental car that is going to be doing 10 years because he just couldn't observe a few simple rules of the road. And for the love of God, if you do have a big pile of contraband, keep your cool and hand Mr. State Trooper your drivers license and registration, and accept your ticket graciously. That sweating and shaking gets a person into all kinds of trouble.
Not only is this guy going to do 10 years but he still owes the drug dealer 13 kilos of coke.
I find THIS disgusting:
“I might look for young women,” Mr. Schiefen said.
“And if they’re under 18, you still find them attractive and you look at them,” Mr. Esposto said.
After an hourlong interview, Ms. Weyl talked with Mr. Schiefen’s wife, who tearfully asked, “Is this really happening?”
Mr. Schiefen was arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography and taken to jail.
Later, thinking about Mr. Schiefen’s wife, Ms. Weyl said, “Wouldn’t you rather hear that your partner was a drug dealer than someone looking at child pornography?”
This police woman is mentally ill, and so is the policeman. Or maybe I should say they just love to rationalize their work.
For one this guy isn't accused of PRODUCING child pornography, but instead, most likely LOOKING AT TEENS (not preadolescents) that it is legal to look at in other countries, and was, until not so long ago, legal to look at here.
For two, he's only a suspect at this point, so it's nice they put his name out there so his reputation can be ruined.
For three, I'd rather those two gimps be out there on the street busting actual pimps, murderers, and drug dealers AND actual, you know, child pornographers than wasting money trying to ruin some guys life for looking at a few boobies or some such on a computer screen.
For four, I bet you have no idea just how wide the definition of child pornography has become. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_cartoon_pornography_depicting_minors#United_States
One of your links is about the actual rape/molestation of a child. I find preventing/punishing that to be far more important than policing what people look at on the internet.
Regardless, in this state, Maryland, it is legal for a 40 year old man to have consensual sex with a 16 year old. That the federal government, on the other hand, might prosecute me for having a naked picture of an old girlfriend from when I was a teen is just obscene.
Clarence
Well, to each their own
Clarence.
But honestly I say two tears in a bucket for people "suspected" of looking at child pornography. These officers are not on some wild goose chase looking for people with pictures of old girlfriends, their looking for people who view, and oftentimes redistribute pictures of prepubescent children.
Figuring out whether a girl in a photo is 17 or 18 is not the MO of these officers. Their trying to find people who produce child pornography, and in todays internet age, going after them through the internet is the easiest way to stop these people. The police can't simply go out on the streets and "hunt for a child molester" These people don't tend to advertise themselves.
People who watch child pornography are much more likely to molest a child then those who don't, it's simple logic. If you can get these guys when they're watching the stuff, you can then (hopefully) prevent them from actually molesting a child
It is pretty horrifying that the NYT published this guy's name, when right now he's just a suspect. But for him to be found in this sting, he was not just looking at some pictures of old girlfriends, but probably nabbed after deliberately downloading a cache of pictures/videos labeled as child pornography. I don't think it's the kind of thing one can stumble upon by accident-- someone needs to seek out specific servers. And looking/buying isn't a victimless crime, because it creates the demand that leads to the production of more.
That said, it does seem like some people are just hardwired to be attracted to children, and throwing them in jail doesn't in any way solve that problem. But I guess it's all we've got.
Lol, Cham, 10 and 2 position.
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