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Frank Merlott wrote in alt.fan.yardbird on Wednesday 03 June 2009 19:53 in
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>> Someone recognized the girls and was able to anonymously notify the
>> authorities and the girls were rescued.
>
> If he was arrested then he could not have been that anonymous...
I don't recall where the original poster said anyone was arrested...
>> Unfortunatly LEA does not want any help from the public in ths
>> matter. In fact if one tries to be a good citizen and report something
>> like this they wind up being arrested and charged too.
The situation gets even more bizarre, however. In some jurisdictions,
like Manitoba, one is now required by law to report any child pornography
they encounter.
One is between a rock and a hard place here; you can you can potentially
face prosecution if you don't report what you may have seen, and you
potentially face prosecution if you do report what you have seen.
One is led to wonder how this will work; if you don't report what you
may have seen, how are they going to know that you have it in the
first place? I suspect that these provisions will be used to prosecute
people who, upon discovery, claim accidental/unintential possession.
> The law is very clear over this, nobody can INTENTIONALLY and legally
> view child porn images unless it is a law enforcement officer during
> the course of his work.
The law in Canada is even more draconian in this regard -- one is forbidden
to even /search/ for any illegal materials. The only good thing about that
is that it keeps out groups like Peverted Justice and others of a similar
ilk.
> When some people use a password to encrypt child porn, they are making
> it very hard for someone to view those images accidentally, anyone with
> the aim of "helping the police", would have to download suspected child
> porn files first, from a suspected child porn group and then
> deliverately enter the password to view what he believed will contain
> child porn, it would extremly hard to prove in court that the images
> were viewed by accident and that persorn would end up prosecuted too if
> his computer is ever taken away.
Excellent point. I hadn't thought of it in those terms.
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