Swiss Cheese and loopholes

A new law went into effect on July 1st in Tennessee. One of the law change advocates was Senator Diane Black. She felt there were to many loopholes to the previous law on the books.



When an authority figure, such as a teacher, is convicted of statutory rape when the victim is at least 13 years old, but less than 18, and the offender is at least four years older than the victim, he or she will receive a minimum three year jail sentence with a maximum of 15 years.

When, Pamela Rogers, a teacher from McMinnville, received only a six-month sentence for having sexual relations with one of her students.

Why do the laws vary so much by state? Is a teacher molesting a child in one state less of a crime then one in another state?

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View from the hill

According to NCMEC, in FY 2005 there were 7,000 reports of endangered runaways and 774 reports of children involved in or suspected of being involved in child prostitution.

Currently between Jan 1, 2005 and Dec 31,2005 there are 240 endangered runaways listed on the NCMEC site.

Were the other 6,760 endangered runaways found, de-listed, or move to some other category?

Congressional testimony

Statement of Chris Swecker, Acting Executive Assistant Director, Law Enforcement Services. Federal Bureau of Investigation Before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations April 6, 2006.

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Did you know that if child porn is detected, by the Internet Service Provider (ISP), they are required to report the case to the missing children's center for further investigation, under federal law.

The article link discusses approaches to battle child porn images. Part of the plan is to create a unique mathematical signature for each one based on a common formula. Emails would then be scanned for any matches.

What the plan seems not to address currently are the social networking sites, photo sites and non email related distribution of these images. Will the ISP’s scan their entire sites for any matches to the mathematical signature regardless of where the image reside or just emails and possibly IM’s?

Internet Providers to Battle Child Porn
By Anick Jesdanun 06/27/06