Pornography
Research on teens and Internet pornography is mixed
CHICAGO -- Internet porn became a fleeting campaign issue last week when GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, calling the Obama administration soft on enforcing obscenity laws, claimed that children were being harmed by online smut.
Date: 03/27/2012 | Nation & World
Former police chief sentenced for child pornography
HARTFORD, Conn. -- A former police captain was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for amassing what authorities said was one of the largest and most disturbing child pornography collections they've ever seen in Connecticut, one that included images of infants and toddlers.
Date: 02/12/2012 | Nation & World
Facebook used to lure teens for sex
PITTSBURGH -- A married father used phony Facebook profiles to pose as two different Florida surfers to solicit sexually graphic messages and photos from seven teenage girls in Pennsylvania, and two of the girls eventually agreed to meet for sex with the surfers' middle-aged "friend" -- yet another...
Date: 02/11/2012 | Nation & World
Silent camera apps open door for unsavory photos
TOKYO _ Cases of smartphone users secretly photographing unsuspecting targets have been on the rise, thanks to applications that silence the camera shutter sound. But there is no legal impediment to creating and selling these software programs, even as the apps are tied to complaints of...
Date: 12/20/2011 | Business
Performer retests HIV-negative; porn production to resume
LOS ANGELES — An adult film performer who tested positive for HIV and caused the porn industry to shut down production as a precaution has been retested and the actor does not have the virus, a porn industry trade group said Saturday.
Date: 09/03/2011 | Nation & World
Appeals court orders trial in porn case
SPOKANE -- A federal appeals court on Thursday reversed a decision granting immunity to State Patrol investigators who wrongly accused a Spokane firefighter of possessing child pornography, and ordered a trial to determine if investigators lied in obtaining search and arrest warrants.
Date: 08/25/2011 | Northwest
72 charged in probe of child sexual abuse network
WASHINGTON — Seventy-two people have been charged with participating in an international child pornography network that prosecutors say used an online bulletin board called Dreamboard to trade tens of thousands of images and videos of sexually abused children.
Date: 08/03/2011 | Nation & World
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