联邦当局打算逮捕儿童色情制品者和性贩运者。如果被告被定罪，将面临长期监禁。 重罪，并且通常在此之后将其报告为性犯罪者的虚拟寿命。但是，法律没有充分区分儿童色情的实际生产者与互联网上此类材料的被动用户。
An Illinois man was recently indicted 通过 a federal grand jury on child pornography charges. The indictment was generated 通过 the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, along with a special agent in charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and 首页land Security Investigation (HSI) in Chicago. The charges are three counts of 运输 child pornography over the internet.
每项指控的最低刑期为五年，最高刑期为20年，被告可能面临长期徒刑。这位27岁的男子显然没有被指控制造儿童色情制品或与儿童进行私人接触。指控的声音令人震惊，这名男子似乎被指控在互联网上查看此类材料并将其下载到硬盘上。在某些情况下，通过互联网访问照片的行为足以满足以下条件：“transporting” child pornography.
By the nature of internet transactions, a person accessing a single photo may traverse several different states to get a file from a distant server. That may be called 运输, but it may not qualify under statutory interpretations. It appears that the accused here is not charged with dealing or distributing child pornography. In addition, at this point, it is not even known whether the material in dispute would even qualify as child pornography.
看来他实际上没有生产材料。在任何一种情况下，伊利诺伊州的联邦当局都会提出更严重的重罪。尽管儿童色情制品的情况令人发指，但经验丰富的辩护律师必须提供有侵略性的代表，以使被告人陷于不合理的深度和严重性的诉讼中。
资源： ice.gov，“联邦大陪审团以儿童色情罪名起诉伊利诺伊州男子“, Jan. 11, 2017
