Hello, my name is Chris Morales I’m a criminal defense attorney in San Francisco, California. I’m a board certified specialist in criminal law. Today I want to talk about Child Pornography. The authorities, the Feds and also the state and local police are cracking down more and more on possession of Child Pornography. The way that they find people who have Child Pornography on their computers is by using high technology. So the police are able to find out who is using certain type of file sharing software
on their computer. Then they can actually go into that computer from the police station and find out what search terms are being used by the operator of that computer and what photos and videos they are downloading. With that initial information they can go to a judge and get a search warrant. They can get permission to go into that person’s house and seize or take their computers and hard drives and bring them back to the police station for a more thorough search. So, that is how one gets caught with child pornography on their computer it’s because
they are using file sharing software. Once someone is arrested for child pornography the laws are very strict and Federal laws are even stricter than local and California law. The more videos you have on your computer and the more photos of children under age who are engaged in some sort of sexual activity the more years you will spend in prison. So if you have 0 to 100 videos of a child or children engaged in a sexual activity, then you will do 4 to 6 years. If you have between 100 and 1,000 videos or photos you will do more years and it goes
on from there. Now the police determine that the children on the video and photos are under 18 by the use of doctors, pediatric doctors who will come in and examine the bone structure and the physical bodies of the images and they will form an opinion as to what age those children are and sometimes it is quite clear if they are 6,7,8, 9, 10 years old that they are under 18. It’s a closer call when they are more teenagers as to whether it’s actually child porn or not, but the bottom line is that it all starts with file sharing programs.
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Child Pornography
Criminal Defense Attorney – Christopher Morales
Practice Area: The San Francisco Bay Area, California
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