Is Child Porn Hysteria Rising, Again?

Yesterday, I posted on the subject of “child porn,” titling my thoughts Arrested for “Playing Doctor” in the 21st Century.  It seems I must address the subject again today, after reading the following.

An Illinois National Guard soldier in Afghanistan has been charged by the U.S. Army with possessing child pornography over pictures of a young relative his mother says she sent him.

Terri Miller of Galesburg says she sent her son, Specialist Billy Miller, pictures of the little girl to help him get over his homesickness.

The pictures show the child in a swimsuit playing a wading pool and sitting on a truck. In one, the girl is wearing a swim suit and part of her buttocks are exposed.

Can you imagine, photos of a “child in a swimsuit playing a wading pool (sic) and sitting on a truck. In one, the girl is wearing a swim suit and part of her buttocks are exposed?”  How depraved, photos of sights you see in backyards and on beaches across America on a daily basis during the Summer months.

The actual depravity in regards to this story though is being perpetrated against Specialist Billy Miller.

The Army says Miller will stay in Afghanistan until his court martial. His unit came home last August. Miller faces jail time, if convicted.

So, because Billy Miller’s Mom sent him some photos of a young girl in a swimsuit, one of which photos shows the young girl’s buttock, Billy Miller sits in Afghanistan, awaiting court martial, while the rest of his unit is, and has been since August, back in the States.

I’ll let this 65 year old Grandma’s comment on the story end my post.

Absolutely rediculous!!! (sic) What will they do next arrest parents for taking pictures of their child in the tub? I am a 65 year old Grandma with 6 grandchildren and I have pictures of them all in the bathtub and running around the house in their birthday suit and I have emailed them to uncles and aunts because they are cute not sexy. So arrest me.

From a Chicago Breaking News Center story titled Mom defends soldier accused of having child porn via Weird Universe.

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  1. The following letter is one that I wrote, that was published in the Northern Iowan, the student paper of the University of Northern Iowa, on October 14, 1988. In that letter, published over 21 years ago, I pointed out that the then-proposed law, which would criminalize “possession” of so-called “child pornography,” could be used as a trick to imprison political dissenters.
         
    Gerald Baker letter of October 14, 1988
    Through that link, you can also read any one of around 90 other letters I published in the Northern Iowan, over the years, if you happen to be interested.

    One of those letters, published on Nov. 20, 1987, was about an entrapment program, carried out by the US government, to sell “child pornography.” Its name was “Operation Looking-Glass.”
    I contacted some of the people who’d been entrapped, after getting their names from news stories. One of them, Kent Jacobson, was a retired Army man, of Newman Grove, Nebraska. He fought his case up to the Supreme Court, and got the charges dismissed. There was an item about it, on either “60 Minutes” or “20-20,” around 1993.
    Gerald Baker

    Posted by Gerald Baker  on  01/19  at  10:23 PM

  2. Gerald,

    Thank you for your comment.  I made the link you provided a clickable link for others who may stop by and read this post, your comment, and who may desire to read your 1988 letter to the editor on this same subject.

    Posted by John Venlet  on  01/20  at  07:44 AM

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