Hmmmm I know down hear the victims get big pay outs but on top of that they can also sue the person that offened to them and leave them with nothing sad but true.
But I must say I've never hard of something like this happening before its just plan crazy.

I totally agree oneofthem.

from what i read, it doesnt sound like it is going to fly. hope we find out how it turns out

if i was the judge i would threw this out and look at these people like there idiots

Insane - but this is a perfect example of why living restrictions make no sense. Obviously he was allowed to return to his home as an eligible address but it is in the same neighborhood as his victim - but I bet he is not allowed to live near a park! Really dumb! And how can they force his relatives to buy the house? They are not responsible for the crime! Absolutely crazy!

You know I got to thinking if this guy is forced to buy the house his got him self a nice little nest egg and some income coming in if he rents it

The guy across the street from me murdered his wife and then committed suicide. Should I sue his estate for bringing murder into our neighborhood? Just glad I'm not planning to move anytime soon.

Actually, I think its interesting that the only person who thinks this kind of suit is justified is a survivor. Its such a complex issue. People want to believe that there is "an eye for an eye" justice, but there is a quote attributed to Mahatma Ghandi saying something like, if we all got an eye for eye justice, we'd all be walking around blind.

There is not going to be any real resolution to most types of sex offense cases until we start to understand that punishment doesn't work. You can't keep piling it on. Nothing returns a child's innocence, but the way we treat sex offense just piles on the pain. Why do we see destroying lives of the families of offenders AND the survivors and their families as justice? Why? Are we as a society that insane? Perhaps that is why they call this a "hysteria". It is insane.

I agree Peekachu - 100 percent

To add to this, I'm not sure if you all have read or skimmed through the link that Rew posted last week, when I asked him for the link to the Sentencing Commission's Report.
I know its a long document, but I did read alot of it so far, and I had found some amazing & distressing parts to it.
Somewhere in this massive document, it talks about the notification factor. Now, I know alot of us are up on the "neighborhood notification" crap, but this was different. It states that when the FBI has verified a victim of child pornography (i.e.-the person in the picture or video has been identified), that the FBI EVERY TIME they find that same video or picture uploaded or find it during an investigation, that they MUST notify the victim that it has been uploaded again. Can you believe this? Now, I know most of us here are defending our loved ones against oppressive sentences and registry, but wow, this really hit me on the victim's point of view. How would you like to be notified EVERY time a pic or video that you had no control of shows up on the net, or on someone's computer?? Sometimes, 10yrs down the road?? Talk about re-victimizing the victim over & over....incredible!! Apparently, their is an "opt-out" provision somewhere, but its so complicated, most cannot complete it....again, just goes to show how excess legislation and changing rules and regulations have doomed everyone....

Wow..can we blame Obamacare, Sandy Hook & the destruction of the rain forest on SO's also??
Stay tuned.....I'm sure that's coming soon......

jmjh,

They notify the victim in the case of child pornography so that the victim can sue the downloader for "proximate damages" of her distress over the years. Law enforcement must do this as a matter of law.

What this does is re-victimize the victim over and over again----but, hey, that is OK as long as they have a chance to file a lawsuit against some guy looking at naughty pictures of them when they were young. Anything to cause more pain for some guy rotting in prison who did nothing but LOOK at a naughty picture.

A couple of young ladies, formerly know in the child pornography world, as "Vickie" and "Amy" have hired a high powered attorney from New York. Every time a child porn suspect is caught with either of these two girls pictures in their possession, the victim is notified. They then file a civil suit against the downloader claiming that the downloader is the cause of their anguish and misery. Usually they ask for some unGodly amount of damages, usually in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for their suffering.

The courts have been divided on this matter of restitution for damages for the victims of child pornography.

About half the courts will not award damages because they rule that the downloader was not the "proximate cause" of the mental anguish these victims suffer each and every time onve of their pictures or videos have been looked at. These courts reason (correctly, in my opinion) that the person responsible for the proximate damage is the person committing the act of sexual assault against the kids when the pictures were taken.

But some of the federal courts have ruled just the opposite. There are links all over the internet about the various federal court decisions in these cases.

What this has become is a money making racket for the attorney filing these cases. The victims deserve something, but they do not deserve a couple of hundred thousand dollars from every downloader of their pictures.

But, yeah, these victims (and they ARE victims, make no mistake about it) are re-victimized every time they are notified that a picture or video of them being abused has been found on a downloader's hard drive.

It seems to me that the victims DO deserve some kind of compensation for their suffering, but it is a stretch to say that the guy who downloaded the pictures and only looked at them is the IMMEDIATE or PROXIMATE cause of their damages.

If you want links, I will post some of them.

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For those with a lot of time and who want to learn more about the problems with restitution in child pornography cases and how the courts are handling this problem, here are a few links. If you want more links, there are more links on the page or within the article.

http://tinyurl.com/cy5jsy5

http://tinyurl.com/cr9zucr

http://tinyurl.com/c68ul8z

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I hope it is sooner than later, One of them. It has to happen eventually. What would the do if all almost one million rso decided not to register? What a revolt that would be!

Why don' t they start removing the pics instead of allowing them to remain?