Prominent Florida attorney who led his law firm’s sexual abuse and sex trafficking team is arrested for possession for CP
It is with no pleasure that we report on this particular case. We all know too well the feeling of regret at the time of the arrest; how we would give anything to be able to go back and have never committed the crime, if indeed it was committed. From the moment of the arrest, most perpetrators of a sex crime determine that they will live the rest of their lives trying to make up for that terrible mistake they made.
But unfortunately, this is never good enough for many in our society. This attorney has probably entered a way of life that he never truly understood existed in the United States of America where we have always been taught that everyone deserves a chance at life.
“This attorney has been interviewed many times across the country about child sex abuse,” according to the New York Post. Additionally, he “advocated for the repeal of all statutes of limitations in child sexual battery cases.”
This attorney probably did nothing to try to rectify the horrible statutes/ordinances that are forced on the tens of thousands of law-abiding registrants living in Florida—Florida, which is considered by many to have the most heinous conditions in the nation for people on the registry.
Again, the registry did nothing to prevent this alleged crime.
If this attorney is eventually found guilty of the charges brought against him, could he be the legal mind that so many FAC members have been waiting for to join our efforts in abolishing the registry? As horrible as this story is for the victims of these pictures and videos, could there be a silver lining in it for registrants living in Florida?
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I wonder,, What or why is the reason these child porn websites are even there? All the technology in the world at law enforcement’s finger tips free of charge can not figure it out? BS. Oh, i wonder though, Just a thought mind ya. what if Law enforcement does take them down as fast as they appear? Law enforcement/Government/prisons/civil commitment.
would not need billions of dollars any more.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/founder-of-protect-our-kids-first-arrested-for-allegedly-downloading-child-sex-abuse-material/ar-AA19CxNb
Some more details came out
Hey, did y’all know that Michael Dolce was Lauren Book’s attorney and is prominently featured on the Lauren’s kid’s website? Not even joking!
hXXps://laurenskids.org/advocacy-in-action-fighting-for-justice/
In 2002, young Lauren Book sat in a Broward County courtroom and revealed the horrors she endured at the hands of her live-in nanny for the past six years of her childhood. She took heart knowing her lawyer, Michael Dolce, not only believed her, but understood her plight all too well…
The very definition of irony.
Ha. Didn’t her pediatric doctor also get arrested for the same stuff. Registry not keeping her kids or her safe from potential danger is it?
Here is a point that hasn’t been made yet in these comments. CP as we know is among the fastest growing offenses in America today. It’s no wonder Mr. Dolce got caught up in it because (a) he was after all molested as a child and (b) his entire legal career has been built on sex offense cases – by now he knew exactly where to go looking for it on line when he began to succumb to its temptations.
Now here comes law enforcement, only too happy to swoop in an arrest him, the person downloading CP. But I’ll bet my life’s fortune that those same law enforcement agents are doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to go after the websites flooding the world with this stuff, to try to shut those websites down or arrest those running those sites.
Surely if it’s illegal for Mr. Dolce to download those images, it must be illegal for those website operators to post them?!
But no … stop making sense!
Federal sentencing guidelines for distributors— including website operators— are higher than guidelines for what Michael Dolce is charged with. The fact that people are still committing the crime of running such websites, does not mean that the laws against them are not enforced.
The people responsible for running these websites are rarely caught and as such, rarely prosecuted. Law enforcement is cutting the tail off the snake, but doing zero to go after the head. There are very powerful people making hundreds of millions of dollars off of abusing kids [moderator’s note: citation needed]. They won’t be stopped because of the power they have
The problem with that reasoning is that the feds are the ones running and keeping the sites up [moderator’s note: citation needed]. They’ve been doing it since they took over Backpage umpteen years ago. I’d bet the NCMEC has a degree of involvement with that as well.
“The agents caught him actively downloading images onto his Samsung laptop, according to the news outlet.”
I have never heard of someone being caught in the act of downloading CP. That would probably mean that his internet was being monitored in real-time and/or they had placed a keylogger on his computer, and they were already outside his door.
Our police state has no trouble tracking down pornographers, but can’t stop school shootings and gang violence. Misplaced priorities?
My thoughts exactly. Talk about real v imagined threats to children. If child safety was a true concern to these hacks, I wonder why preventing children massacres isn’t being addressed
Can we all at least agree that child pornography is a real threat to children?
Nothing about enforcement of child pornography laws is causing any child gun deaths. That’s just a false dichotomy.
Yes, we can all agree that CP is truly harmful and heinous. However, can we agree that school children being blown to pieces seems to be okay with our lawmakers, yet they do zip about it and yet turn their wrath on non contact offenders. They should be hunting down the producers of CP instead of the customers. Looking at CP is an illness. Producing and distribution is done because it pays. Don’t think that there aren’t some very powerful and prominent people behind the production and distribution business.
[moderator’s note: The Federal sentencing range for distribution of child pornography is 5-20 years; for production, 15-30 years].
Yes, CP is a threat to children. But the physical, mental, or emotional damage is caused by those that produce it, not those that viewed it.
If viewing CP is as detrimental to those depicted as we have been led to believe, then the same argument must apply and subsequent charges must also be brought against every LE officer, prosecutor, judge, jury member, ICAC and NCMEC employee that ever had involvement with a CP case or “operation” (i.e., sting) – they’ve all viewed the same CP as the defendant in any given CP case.
To say viewing with intent to investigate or prosecute is different than intent to sexually gratify is like saying that an LE officer who hits a child with a car going 55 mph on his way home after being relieved of duty obviously injures or kills the child, but hitting one answering, say, a domestic violence or armed robbery call somehow leaves the child unscathed. The logic is completely absurd. This is not to diminish the effects of CP on its victims. Rather, it’s pointing out the true source of those effects.
No one person or group )like a legislature) can solve a problem if they can’t or won’t correctly identify it. It’s problematic when the same government that the public expects to fix this particular problem has an interest in the problem’s continued (perceived) prevalence.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/u-s-court-rules-documents-in-sanford-case-must-be-unsealed-1.6345965
Hopefully he doesn’t escape Justice like this might have done.