Section 4 - Any person found producing (in anyway making child pornography) will serve 15-25 years and $200000. Sentence depending on co-operation with the police, identification of accomplices, purchasers and identification of victems.
Actually, if we took the bill literally, a 17-and 17-year old couple could get arrested for that. It just says 'any person' not any person over the age of X. Of course, we don't want 17 year olds to be able to legally produce the really bad type of child porn, but a 17 year old taping him/herself with another 17 year old getting 15-25 and a $200k fine seems a tad ridiculous.
While I think that this bill has very good intent, it needs some revision for some of the wierder cases.
Well, in reality, as long as these people didn't broadcast this tape on the internet, sell it to friends or what have you, nothing would really happen to them. It is unlikely that the FBI would ever discover it. Should I write a special provision providing for... such cases?
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It gets even worse...how do you define "in any way making"? Does that take hold of the persons caught on film? In other words, would we have to lock up the children themselves?
I'd advocate researching into the current legal situation in the US. What are the current penalties? What are the current definitions? (I think R.Kelly has a tale to tell on the subject, btw.)
Only then can we see if any new legislation is needed and what it would have to look like.
