New York’s top court ruled that simply viewing child pornography online does not constitute either criminal possession or procurement under state law. I do not agree with this not one bit, no one should be able to watch children get exploited online. Click below to find out more.
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The Court of Appeals dismissed two counts against James Kent, 65, who was a professor of public administration at Marist College, where a virus scan of his computer in 2007 found pornographic images. He was convicted of two counts of procuring and 134 counts of possessing a sexual performance by a child. He began his one- to three-year sentence in 2009.
The Court of Appeals agreed that Kent was properly convicted because he had downloaded, saved and deleted 132 images. But the majority said some images in his computer cache, temporary files automatically stored from sites he viewed, cannot be held against him under state law.
According to the court ruling, emails found in Kent’s computer said he had collected images as part of a potential research project on the regulation of child pornography.
