This to my mind is comparatively innocent behavior to those evil cretins that create and/or go out of their way to obtain child pornography.
If Grisham is right that people that just view a few websites are going to jail, then that seems wrong to me.
If the only people going to jail for child pornography are those that are seriously invested in it, then Grisham should have apologized to the authorities for accusing them of overprosecuting, not to the public at large for being insensitive.
I have heard of cases where people urinating in public being declared sex offenders because someone was offended by seeing their private parts. Those cases are definitely ones where people were over prosecuted.
If Grisham knows of cases where people clicking on a few web sites ended up doing hard prison time then this is something that should be investigated. We want our prisons filled with truly threatening individuals not drunk perverts.
Grisham apologized for his remarks, which were disturbing as well as a bit too casual considering the seriousness of crimes in the sexual exploitation of children.
Anyone who is discussing this topic is referring to legitimate crimes of that nature, not some idiotic excuse such as, “I accidentally visited the wrong site”.
Nobody sends people to jail for clicking on the wrong website, but these people usually have hundreds and thousands of images on their computer.
Doesn’t happen by accident. This stuff is buried a little. Special servers, newsgroups, even special browsers I think. Mostly traded by e-mail from what I’ve seen from casual reading about court cases.
His buddy traded images of girls as young as 12. Still want yo go with the 17 year signing something saying she was 18?