Child p*rnography is illegal even if the pictures are drawn, a federal appeals panel said in affirming the nation's first conviction under a 2003 federal law against such cartoons.
Dwight Whorley of Richmond is serving 20 years in prison, convicted in 2005 of using a public computer for job-seekers at the Virginia Employment Commission to receive 20 Japanese cartoons, called anime, illustrating young girls being forced to have s*x with men. Whorley also received digital photographs of actual children engaging in s*xual conduct and sent and received e-mails graphically describing parents s*xually molesting their children.
A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld his conviction.
Wits are already putting disclaimers on stick figure comics, asserting that all stick figures, even the short ones, are over 18 years old. The capital letter "H" is also under suspicion for child p*rn. |