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The Internet and Sex Crimes

The Internet and Sex Crimes

The federal government has taken an active interest in people's activities on the Internet. As we learned from a Dateline investigation, the federal government has more than 800 employees tracking the flow of images (child pornography) and conversation (child sex solicitation) over the Internet. Every U.S. State Attorney's office has a law enforcement task force whose sole objective in these backroom sting operations is to log into chat rooms as decoys and engage in sexual banter.

They pose as teens and their goal is to determine if you are a juvenile, or an adult trying to lure a juvenile into sex talk about them or another juvenile. With the click of a key or two, exchanging sexy pictures over a Web cam and engaging in suggestive conversation, you can expose yourself to prosecution for several federal and state sex crimes.

The feds can build a very strong case that's hard to defeat in court, but the skilled and experienced defense attorneys at the law office of Patrick Artur & Associates have been able to defend many of these cases to a verdict of "not guilty".

Contact an attorney if you're facing criminal charges for:

* Online child pornography, production, dissemination, or possession of child pornography

* Violation of local obscenity ordinances

* Sexual solicitation of a minor, online child sex solicitation, and sending sexually explicit materials to children

* Sex with a minor

The feds have a well-coordinated and aggressive strategy, working hand in hand with local police and Internet service providers, to crack down on Internet child solicitation and the downloading of child pornography. With over 850,000 registered child pornography images compiled at a centralized federal service, service providers can send notification any time multiple, registered images are transferred over the Internet. The federal service in turn provides details to local authorities giving them probable cause to obtain a search warrant for your house, apartment, or business.