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Child Pornography's Forgotten Victims, Audrey Rogers
Child Pornography's Forgotten Victims, Audrey Rogers
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The goal of this paper is to demonstrate that possession of child pornography is not a victimless crime. It will illustrate the problem and explain the harm suffered by its victims. It will then trace factors that may have contributed to the perception that possession of child pornography is a victimless offense. The first factor is the dual nature of the child pornography laws that addresses both actual and future harm. When this duality is applied to possessors, their link to actual harm appears attenuated because the possessor is not involved in the acts of sexual abuse inherent in producing …