Lawsuit: State operation to catch sex offenders entrapped innocent men to boost arrest numbers

Quentin Parker believes the sting operation that identified him as a “dangerous child predator” in 2019 failed its mission. Though charges against him were ultimately dropped, he claims in his recent lawsuit against Washington State Patrol that dishonest detectives manipulated him and “forever tainted and destroyed” his life for their own financial gain. According to the suit filed in Thurston

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Matt Gaetz pushed for sexual predator legislation. How will that work out for him?

In 2014, long before he became the subject of a federal sex-trafficking investigation, Matt Gaetz pushed Florida to enact what he called a “scorched-earth” policy toward sexual predators. Gaetz, then 31 years old, served as the chairman of the Florida House of Representatives’ Criminal Justice Subcommittee. He cosponsored legislation that increased the mandatory prison time for convicted sexual offenders, calling

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How the War on Porn Distracts Us From the Realities of Child Sexual Abuse

The following is an excerpt from this article that points out just how misguided the perceptions are when it comes to who the perpetrators of sexual offenses are. Minors coerced into sex for money, minors coerced to perform in pornographic content are part of our current world. But the preparators, in most cases, hide behind a familiar face. One study

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Appellate Brief filed in “Ex Post Facto Plus I” case.

Yesterday, the Does’ Brief was filed in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in the “Ex Post Facto Plus” challenge. The appeal raises the following two issues: Whether the district court erred in refusing to apply the continuing violation doctrine to plaintiffs’ claims against the cumulative effects of 21 years’ worth of increasingly restrictive and mutually-aggravating amendments to FSORNA 2018,

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Reddit faces lawsuit for failing to remove child sexual abuse material

A woman has sued Reddit for allowing an ex-boyfriend to repeatedly post pornographic images of her as a 16-year-old. The lawsuit applies controversial measures instituted in 2018 under FOSTA-SESTA to a site that’s drawn particular criticism for child sexualization. The resulting case will test the limits of platforms’ legal shields amid ongoing efforts to pare back the law behind them.

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