A University of Virginia rape victim represented by the has filed a landmark civil rights action to stop a new federal law from undermining pending federal investigations of UVA’s mishandling of a sexual assault case on campus. Two separate cases—each…
Op Ed: Paroline Raises Difficult Questions for Supreme Court
JURIST Guest Columnist Warren Binford of Willamette University College of Law argues that the US Supreme Court should hold individual possessors of child pornography liable for the full damages allowed under the Violence Against Women Act first to help victims…
On Ryan Loskarn
Last week, The Washington Post published a piece in which Ruth Marcus paints the fate of now-deceased Senate staffer-slash-child porn viewer Jesse Ryan Loskarn as a “tragedy.” After reading what is allegedly Loskarn’s suicide note, Marcus concludes: Yet Loskarn’s example…
Paroline v. Amy Unknown’s Wide-ranging Impact for Victims, Policymakers and Professionals
The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) is the leading national organization supporting professionals who serve children and families affected by child maltreatment and violence, including child sex abuse and child pornography. As a multidisciplinary group of…
A Week in Washington – Supreme Court Observations
Ominous Beginnings The words in the chapel read “Mary console the children of a land sprinkled with blood and tears.” My trip to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception at Catholic University in Washington, DC was…
Opinion: Paying a price for child pornography
Sometimes, justice requires being fair even to those who don’t deserve it. And justice in this case means rejecting the argument that Paroline must pay for all his fellow criminals.