Ian Buruma: Why I'm wary of child porn prosecutions

Last week, the Dean of Reading, Michael O'Kelly, was jailed for nine months after being found in possession of a vast collection of child pornography. Few people will feel sorry for him. Yet there is something disturbing about at least some of the child pornography cases in our courts.
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e I have a ton of comments on this but as I fear saying anything that could be mis read as advocating child pornography I will keep it short. I enoyed this article and agree with many points, it is nice to see a perspective that allows for a little understanding of those that commit no actual abuse to a child rather they are abusing themselves. I have heard some people say that a person starts with looking at picures of this sort then may ove on to bigger and worse habits like with drugs but there are people that i am sure use images of young children to simply stifel thier urges and go abou tthier life. For these people I have pity not hateful drive to place them in jail. For the people that move on to actually taking the pictures or abusing children well... they should be in jail or atleast a hospital of the mental sort. thats all thanks for the good read. 8/10/2006
Hana Witch hunting is all it is. Its anti homosexual prosecution 7/31/2006
Fima Fimovich I would like to send you some links to publications about my
criminal case. I worked for Mitsubishi Electric Automation in Vernon Hills, IL, USA.
My case are getting public attention now as an example of miscarriage
of justice. I could not defend myself, because I did not have enough
money for computer expert.
I was forced to confess for possession of child porn. I got browser
hijackers while browsing the web. I was redirected to illigal sites
against my will. Some illigal pictures were found on my hard drive only after
recovering in unallocated clusters, without dates of files
creation/download.
I do not know how can courts press widely on people to convict them,
while whole Internet is a mess.
This is publication in Wired news

http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,63391,00.html

This is publication in Theregester

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/13/browser_hijacking_risks/

Article in ZDnet
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5344831.html

This is article in Washington Times, May 22, 2004
There is information about my case.

http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20040521-084242-5633r.htm

This is publication in Globe and Mail

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040617.
gttwhijac17/BNStory/Technology/


This is my story in www.inquisition21.com

http://www.inquisition21.com/article~view~7~page_num~3.html

Article in Crime research center:

http://www.crime-research.org/news/07.22.2004/506/

Article in search security:

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci994463,00.html

The same case overturned:

http://www.mnsun.com/story.asp?city=apple_valley&story=139174
You may contact me at
estrinyefim@yahoo.com

 10/11/2004
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