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Article: Computer search and seizure issues in Internet crimes against children cases.
- Article from:
- Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
- Author:
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Child sexual exploitation encompasses a broad spectrum of types of child abuse. For purposes of this article, the type of child sexual exploitation that will be primarily dealt with is computer-facilitated child pornography. However, other types of child sexual exploitation cases, such as prostituting children, on-line luring and abduction, and trafficking, will also certainly generate computer evidence. (1)
Child pornography is the permanent recording of the sexual abuse and exploitation of a minor. The best approach to combating this crime is a multi-disciplinary one, in which the investigator, prosecutor, and all other allied criminal justice professionals ...