1. A two-paragraph press release said the raid was prompted by a complaint that CompuServe was being used to distribute child pornography. 2. Hood, Daufenbach stated, operated GROTTO to distribute child pornography across the country. 3. Hoberman said prosecutors should focus on those who produce and distribute pornography, not those reporting on the problem. 4. Hood operated GROTTO to distribute child pornography across the country. 5. Kemmish was later convicted of distributing child pornography and sentenced to five years in federal prison. 6. There are, of course, many effective laws already on the books for punishing people who make and distribute child pornography in any medium. 7. Those in the business of distributing child pornography have clearly scaled back their operations. 8. Until the new law was passed this year, it was a crime in Massachusetts to produce and distribute child pornography but nothing outlawed possession of the material. 9. Police suspect that the pornography was distributed to clients all over the world via the Internet and from a computer store owned by Ulrich. 10. A Dane has been charged with distributing child pornography through the Internet for an international ring with roots in Belgium, police said Monday. |