Legal Question in Criminal Law in Texas

I was surfing porn as I do on occasion and some how found a site advertising lite pedophile out of curiosity, like seeing a car wreck with dead people mangled you know you should look away, but I did go deeper and deeper in the worst pedophile sites up to maybe 20pages worth in morbid curiosity. Fist time I ever did that. Only surfed had no interest or desire to download, but should I now be expecting police at my door any day now?


Asked on 2/03/16, 11:42 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Edward Hoffman Law Offices of Edward A. Hoffman

If you're asking whether you committed a crime, the answer is probably yes. (Whether you did will depend on what images or videos you looked at and what information you had when you clicked the various links.) If you're asking how likely it is that you will get into trouble for it, there's no way to give you a good estimate. It will depend on many factors. The risk will increase if you do it again.

Don't forget that there's a good reason why looking at child porn is a crime. The children involved are scarred for life. The less demand there is for child porn, the fewer children will be victimized. Put differently, the more of it you look at, the more incentive producers will have to make more of it.

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Answered on 2/03/16, 11:53 am


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