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International standards and national laws regarding the definition of a child in child-pornography rules
Illinois law expressly criminalizes sexual conduct with animals, and state statutes and practice treat sexually explicit depictions involving minors or other prohibited categories with severe penaltie...
U.S. courts have long drawn a line between protected speech and criminal content—routinely holding that child pornography is unprotected and that possession or viewing can be criminalized—yet the mate...
Briefly visiting a clear‑web nudist website by itself has not been shown in the provided reporting to be a routine basis for arrest; legal Q&A sources consistently conclude that accidental or momentar...
International instruments and model laws pushed a clear standard—“child” = anyone under 18—for sexual‑exploitation and child‑pornography rules, but national statutes vary in wording and scope; the EU ...
Producing or distributing pornographic content involving persons legally defined as children typically triggers severe criminal consequences—imprisonment, fines, mandatory reporting and cross‑border c...
Federal prosecutions under 18 U.S.C. § 2252 and § 2252A require the government to prove a small set of core elements: that a defendant knowingly engaged in a proscribed act (possession, receipt, distr...
Japan raised its national age of sexual consent from 13 to 16 in 2023, bringing the statutory baseline closer to many Western countries, while a patchwork of prefectural bylaws and separate statutes r...
Mere online access to an image can in some circumstances be charged as possession of illegal content, because U.S. federal statutes and many state laws treat electronic receipt, storage, or “accessing...