State Senate Passes Child Porn Prevention Measure
The bill creates more severe punishment for child porn possession and distribution.
The State Senate passed a bill designed to prevent child porn Monday. The legislation, which still requires approval from the State Assembly, would widen the definition of child porn to cover all victims under the age of 18 and create more severe penalties for possession and distribution with mandatory prison sentences, according to a release from Sen. Kevin O’Toole (R-Bergen, Essex, Morris, Passaic), the bill's primary sponsor. It would also make file sharing on peer-to-peer networks count as distribution instead of possession, impose lifelong parole for convicted offenders and prevent a possession conviction from being expunged from an offender’s record. “This legislature has the duty to pass one of the most important initiatives in …
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21st century concerned citizen
11:41 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
Great work by our law enforcement personnel!! What these men did was absolutely criminal and they deserve to be behind bars for years, and not walking the streets. Also glad they have their identities and pictures in the press. Absolutely disgusting more ›