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The use of digital artifacts in child sexual abuse material prosecutions
Prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt not only that child sexual abuse material () existed on a device but that the defendant both controlled it and was aware of its nature — the statutory ...
Courts and prosecutors routinely treat a wide range of —recent‑use records, system shortcuts, app logs, and carved media remnants—as circumstantial evidence supporting “possession” or “dominion and co...
Available reporting indicates that while law enforcement identification of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has risen sharply, prosecutions for creating and distributing CSAM have not grown at the s...
Media practices and orchestrated publicity—both by survivors and by defendants or their teams—reshape which become “headline” cases, how evidence and narratives are evaluated, and the legal and reputa...
Unverified audio recordings have repeatedly reshaped public impressions in high‑profile abuse cases by converting “” narratives into visceral soundbites that prompt strong reactions from judges, jurie...
Prosecutors corroborate network logs in digital CSAM prosecutions by treating logs as one piece of a multilayered evidentiary mosaic: creating forensically sound copies, aligning timestamps and metada...
A federal jury in Manhattan found Donald J. Trump civilly liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll and for defaming her, awarding Carroll $5 million, and that judgment was later upheld on appeal . ...
Eyewitness and third‑party accounts can place a person at a computer, describe online behavior, or recount statements about viewing material, but decades of psychological and legal research show that ...