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So why are these people, and it looks like there are lots of them, not being indicted?

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18 USC Sec. 2251 01/03/05

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TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 110 - SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND OTHER ABUSE OF CHILDREN

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Sec. 2251. Sexual exploitation of children

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(a) Any person who employs, uses, persuades, induces, entices, or
coerces any minor to engage in, or who has a minor assist any other
person to engage in, or who transports any minor in interstate or
foreign commerce, or in any Territory or Possession of the United
States, with the intent that such minor engage in, any sexually
explicit conduct for the purpose of producing any visual depiction
of such conduct, shall be punished as provided under subsection
(e), if such person knows or has reason to know that such visual
depiction will be transported in interstate or foreign commerce or
mailed, if that visual depiction was produced using materials that
have been mailed, shipped, or transported in interstate or foreign
commerce by any means, including by computer, or if such visual
depiction has actually been transported in interstate or foreign
commerce or mailed.
(b) Any parent, legal guardian, or person having custody or
control of a minor who knowingly permits such minor to engage in,
or to assist any other person to engage in, sexually explicit
conduct for the purpose of producing any visual depiction of such
conduct shall be punished as provided under subsection (e) of this
section, if such parent, legal guardian, or person knows or has
reason to know that such visual depiction will be transported in
interstate or foreign commerce or mailed, if that visual depiction
was produced using materials that have been mailed, shipped, or
transported in interstate or foreign commerce by any means,
including by computer, or if such visual depiction has actually
been transported in interstate or foreign commerce or mailed.
(c)(1) Any person who, in a circumstance described in paragraph
(2), employs, uses, persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any
minor to engage in, or who has a minor assist any other person to
engage in, any sexually explicit conduct outside of the United
States, its territories or possessions, for the purpose of
producing any visual depiction of such conduct, shall be punished
as provided under subsection (e).
(2) The circumstance referred to in paragraph (1) is that -
(A) the person intends such visual depiction to be transported
to the United States, its territories or possessions, by any
means, including by computer or mail; or
(B) the person transports such visual depiction to the United
States, its territories or possessions, by any means, including
by computer or mail.

(d)(1) Any person who, in a circumstance described in paragraph
(2), knowingly makes, prints, or publishes, or causes to be made,
printed, or published, any notice or advertisement seeking or
offering -
(A) to receive, exchange, buy, produce, display, distribute, or
reproduce, any visual depiction, if the production of such visual
depiction involves the use of a minor engaging in sexually
explicit conduct and such visual depiction is of such conduct; or
(B) participation in any act of sexually explicit conduct by or
with any minor for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of
such conduct;

shall be punished as provided under subsection (e).
(2) The circumstance referred to in paragraph (1) is that -
(A) such person knows or has reason to know that such notice or
advertisement will be transported in interstate or foreign
commerce by any means including by computer or mailed; or
(B) such notice or advertisement is transported in interstate
or foreign commerce by any means including by computer or mailed.

(e) Any individual who violates, or attempts or conspires to
violate, this section shall be fined under this title and
imprisoned not less than 15 years nor more than 30 years, but if
such person has one prior conviction under this chapter, chapter
71, chapter 109A, or chapter 117, or under section 920 of title 10
(article 120 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice), or under the
laws of any State relating to the sexual exploitation of children,
such person shall be fined under this title and imprisoned for not
less than 25 years nor more than 50 years, but if such person has 2
or more prior convictions under this chapter, chapter 71, chapter
109A, or chapter 117, or under section 920 of title 10 (article 120
of the Uniform Code of Military Justice), or under the laws of any
State relating to the sexual exploitation of children, such person
shall be fined under this title and imprisoned not less than 35
years nor more than life. Any organization that violates, or
attempts or conspires to violate, this section shall be fined under
this title. Whoever, in the course of an offense under this
section, engages in conduct that results in the death of a person,
shall be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or
for life.

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