Lol when i read the headline of this post i thought you were saying the government should pay restitution to the people caught up in these draconian cp laws..wrong again..

I agree these child victims deserve some restitution. Their lives and psyches will be in pain and turmoil forever. But they do need to be going after the molesters and rapists. Now the sick people who downloaded and viewed it.

Ok first of all, not all downloader’s are ‘sick.’ My son was a teenager himself looking at porn that was labeled teenage girls. Personally I do not think an addiction is ‘sick’ but sometimes people do need help with addictions. I wonder what they will do with people that they cannot tell what the porn was that they had? In my son’s case they never listed or did forensics on any of the porn he had.

I can understand the pain they must have is tremendous and life altering but I agree they should be going after the perpetrators of the porn and not the viewers. But they always seem to do that – go after the easy target. I wonder if they are also going to get restitution from the cops that keep those photos circulating. Why not go after the peer-to-peer networks that allow the photos to be traded in their software – they could do something to stop it but the cops have never gone after the owners of the peer-to-peers where most of this stuff is traded.

I began reading this paper and stopped. Sorry, but they sound like ambulance chasers. Besides, if a corporation causes harm, usually each victim of the harm for profit only gets a small portion of the proceeds. What percentage of the total are these liars, I mean lawyers getting?
This also perpetuates the eternal victim syndrome. I have PTSD from the military and prison. Do I let it run my life? NO!!!!

Yeah, Coolrich, I didn't even download or attempt to read the paper. I knew it would disgust me and I don't need to hear some of these inane opinions these days.

I only gave a link because I thought someone might be interested.

You are certainly correct when you said this perpetuates the eternal victime syndrome. Some of these people need to learn to be survivors instead of victims. Of course, playing the victim card forever evokes more sympathy and apparently has more financial benefits.

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I'm honestly still a bit confused by this idea of "revictimization."

Let's say I was raped. If my rapist happened to tape my rape, and then post it to the internet, I honestly don't see how I'd be retraumatized every time somebody viewed it. Now, if my name were attached to it and the video negatively affected my reputation or career or family life then, yes, I'd say there was extra trauma. But if people are anonymously watching a video, I just don't see how there is additional trauma above and beyond what was caused by the rape itself. If the person is making a profit from it, then I do think some additional charges would be warranted against them, but I don't think I'd be entitled to financial compensation. If anything, the profits gained should be taken and used for some sort of community good.

And, again, many of the people downloading these images do so for free. I'm not sure why they'd be responsible for compensating the victims even if the victims do legally deserve restitution, because they didn't pay for the material.

Twoforjoy,
There is nothing confusing about it. It's all about the money. Think about those who made a fortune out of the tragedy of their children and you will understand. Start with John Walsh and Maureen Kanka and go from there.

TwoforJoy,

No, you ARE confused and don't quite understand how victims of child porn can be victimized over and over again just because some total stranger looks at their images or videos. Why? Because you have what a lot of American does not have---a voice of reason and common sense. Nobody with any semblance of common sense or fairness can make the argument that this paper is trying to convey.

We all know the real reason that they want full restitution for child porn victims----it is just another way to extract the last pound of flesh from sex offenders, another way to dig the knife a little deeper.

Sex offenders have no real lobbying power and are one of the least liked people on this planet, so they can do pretty much what they please without any criticism from the general public. It doesn't really matter if the laws are just or just plain stupid.

Yeah, this is just another way to get back at sex offenders. The tragic thing, to me, is the collateral damage that is done to the families of sex offenders, especially the children who do not understand this entire mess.

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Vicki is the first video guys see when they look at CP

I meant NOT the downloaders. I know they're not all sick. There are so many different reasons people do it. Addiction is a sickness though. Some people are just curious. They also get screwed. Just saying the people who perform the acts are the people who should get the severe punishment and it seems that the people who download get way worse punishment. It makes absolutely no sense. I watch horror movies w people being murdered, everyone does, doesn't mean we all go out and start killing people. Just makes me furious!

The people who use peer-peer don't necessarily know how it works. I didn't know til someone explained it to me recently. Never even knew it was called peer to peer. Just thought it was like any other search engine. People don't even always know certain things are in their files, like if someone else used their computer n didn't tell them for obvious reasons. Then cops go and search for disgusting files and that's how they're 'shared' or 'advertised'

In the case of the 'Vicky" series, it was her own father that was raping and filming her.(He is doing life without, and I shed no tears for the Douche).
It is simply about money, AND I don't blame the girl, what happened should never have happened....
My guess is that these girls didn't think this up on their own...It was the SCUMBAG Lawyer who is probably getting 80% of the money....
Everything about SO's is about money or votes...

come on coastie it's all about the money the more money she gets the more the Lawyer gets and of course where the scapegoat

brokenin2pc - absolutely! Well said!!!!!!

Although that one judge (I believe in Florida) has said that it is not distributing unless the person sent the files to another person! He said sharing your folder is not distribution that is a biggie!
I would like to know how the lawyer KNEW about the Vicki series! LOL I had never heard of it before and I would imagine most people that were never involved in any porn wouldn’t know about it! The restitution should come from her father – period! You are right – even if someone had that series in their collection most would not even know it. Also it would have to be determined that a person DID indeed have that file or files. Yeah, this lawyer is trying to make a name for him/or her self.