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The criminalization of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) under federal and state laws in the United States, including possession, distribution, and viewing, with updates to include AI-generated material.
No — not every person who possesses or distributes child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is caught; detection and prosecution rates lag behind the volume and complexity of the problem, and the evidence b...
To charge someone with child sexual abuse material (CSAM), prosecutors must assemble evidence that proves the material depicts minors and that the defendant knowingly possessed, produced, or distribut...
Defenses in CSAM receipt prosecutions commonly claim lack of intent by arguing files were unknowingly downloaded, hidden in archives, automatically synced from cloud services, or created by others who...
Laws governing unintentional exposure to child sexual abuse material (CSAM) differ significantly across federal and state lines: many jurisdictions historically treated possession as a strict liabilit...
Yes. Federal law makes possession and even “access with intent to view” child sexual abuse material (CSAM) a crime (18 U.S.C. §§2252, 2252A), and state laws overwhelmingly criminalize possession and o...