[TomB]

I had the impression that the nastiest porn item was a Japanese cartoon (anime?) depicting the rape of a young girl. I could see where he might have kept that just because of its unusualness, its bizarre reflection of a foreign culture's underside.

So he was collecting porn as a cultural study?

Did they bring that up in the trial?

[cyncooper]

Many's the time I posted that the jury was shown still photos of children, the animes that some focus on, and in addition to those items, the jury saw real video of real young girls being assaulted.

Unfortunately the word "anime" gets mentioned and some want to say "See, all he had were cartoons".

P.S. General point of fact: The son's computer was a hand-me-down from his dad. No internet access in the son's room. Additional fact: The son did admit to porn surfing conducted in his dad's office. Not the illegal stuff, though. The evidence shows it was his dad's, however, and the jury found it to be so.