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You can find the article here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/child-pornography-legal-new-york-porn-possession-james-kent_n_1505916.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false

"It is now not illegal to view child pornography on the internet in New York.

The state's Court Of Appeals ruled Tuesday that simply looking at child pornography online does not constitute criminal possession or procurement of the images.

"Rather, some affirmative act is required (printing, saving, downloading, etc.) to show that defendant in fact exercised dominion and control over the images that were on his screen," wrote Senior Judge Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick in a majority opinion of the six-judge ruling, according to MSNBC. "To hold otherwise, would extend the reach of (state law) to conduct — viewing — that our Legislature has not deemed criminal."

Judge Victoria A. Graffeo simplified things, writing, "The purposeful viewing of child pornography on the internet is now legal in New York."

[View the complete ruling here.]

And how did this all come about? Meet 65-year-old James Kent, a former professor at Marist College whose computer was found to contain pornographic images in 2007. From The New York Daily News:

[Kent] was convicted of two counts of procuring and 134 counts of possessing a sexual performance by a child. He began his one- to three-year sentence in 2009.

The Court of Appeals agreed that Kent was properly convicted because he had downloaded, saved and deleted 132 images. But the majority said some images in his computer cache, temporary files automatically stored from sites he viewed, cannot be held against him under state law.

The ruling absolved the professor of two of the counts against him, Reuters reports. As for the rest of the counts, Kent is still guilty. According to emails documented in the ruling, Kent may have been collecting the images for a potential research project into child pornography regulation.

Kent claimed, according to MSNBC, that he "abhorred" child pornography, and that someone else must have put the images on his computer.

According to the ruling, one subfolder found on Kent's computer, "contained approximately 13,000 saved images of female children, whom Investigator Friedman estimated to be 8 or 9 years old, dressed in lingerie or bathing suits and many with their legs spread open."

On Wednesday, Republican State Senator Martin Golden and Democrat Assemblyman Joseph Lentol said they will introduce legislation that will make illegal "knowingly accessing" child pornography."

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And so it begins. . . .

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Unbelievable. I don't even know what to say.

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Unbelievable. I don't even know what to say.

Agreed,

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This can't be true :(

I am shocked!!!!

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I can't even form a coherent thought about this.

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This is what happens when you kick God out ...

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Relax folks, the sky is not falling" YET

Computer geeks out there should be able to back this statement up. { this is not a link}

FYI:

Most of everything your computer comes across is stored on your computer in a temporary Internet file, if a website, redirected your computer to a known bad site, all those pictures they had on their front page are now on your computer.

By the letter of the law, if you deleted those pictures you were destroying evidence, yet, many programs run by spammers can connect your computer to these site without "you" the person really wanting to go there. But by law, they can convict you of have those pictures on your computer and then deleting them.

Also, you know those pictures of the kids we have in the tub, and running around the house with no cloths on, in some states will get you 10 to 20 years. That family album from the 50's that had "YOU" as a kid running around the lake shore nude, even though it was you as a child, today you the adult, could be by law charged.

But the majority said some images in his computer cache, temporary files automatically stored from sites he viewed, cannot be held against him under state law.

Check your own state laws covering this issue, you may find it very eyeopening.

~~~Dennis

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Relax folks, the sky is not falling" YET

Computer geeks out there should be able to back this statement up. { this is not a link}

FYI:

Most of everything your computer comes across is stored on your computer in a temporary Internet file, if a website, redirected your computer to a known bad site, all those pictures they had on their front page are now on your computer.

By the letter of the law, if you deleted those pictures you were destroying evidence, yet, many programs run by spammers can connect your computer to these site without "you" the person really wanting to go there. But by law, they can convict you of have those pictures on your computer and then deleting them.

Also, you know those pictures of the kids we have in the tub, and running around the house with no cloths on, in some states will get you 10 to 20 years. That family album from the 50's that had "YOU" as a kid running around the lake shore nude, even though it was you as a child, today you the adult, could be by law charged.

But the majority said some images in his computer cache, temporary files automatically stored from sites he viewed, cannot be held against him under state law.

Check your own state laws covering this issue, you may find it very eyeopening.

~~~Dennis

Yes, Dennis, a site does download images in your temp file and install cookies on your system, which is different than the temp files. As a network administrator, I also know there there are programs you can purchase that will not allow you to be redirected to a site you don't want to go to. plus stop you from going to bad sites. The owner sets the controls themselves. If a person has a lot of cookies or images on their system from child porn, there is an overwhelming chance they went there on purpose. Those who are redirected to a site will very quickly leave once they know where they ended up. I have had people quickly shut their computer off and call me, worried they will be in trouble or they have a virus.

I am not in favor of what this court said.

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