Posts tagged “child abuse”

I predicted the Economist's position on Britain's child pornography laws before they published it. Smug? Maybe. But the issue matters: criminalizing computer-generated images punishes thought, not action, and statistics suggesting pornography availability correlates with declining abuse rates raise questions worth taking seriously.

A convicted child molester killed a man who discovered his abuse, then manipulated the man's two young sons into confessing. A year later, Chavis walked free and the kids were convicted. The same prosecutor argued both cases. The legal system is broken.