Yesterday, Former Subway Pitchman Jared Fogle was sentenced to serve 15 years and 8 months in federal prison by Federal Judge Tanya Walton Pratt. This is about three years more than federal prosecutors had been requesting – and it’s nearly triple the minimum five-year sentence that Fogle’s team was seeking as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. This sentence…
Today, child pornography victims won an important court victory in preventing additional copies being made for defense experts of images depicting them. Judge Kimberly J. Mueller of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California held that the Adam Walsh Child and Protection Safety Act of 2006 permitted the Government to refuse making a mirror copy of computer…
Last month, a Utah boy known as “Andy” won restitution in a New York court from a man who was convicted of possessing images of the boy’s abuse. Andy was reportedly sexually abused from the ages of 6 to 12, and to date, more than 700 defendants across the U.S. have been ordered to pay Andy restitution. Following a restitution…
Yesterday, Senator Orin Hatch (R-UT) officially introduced the Amy and Vicky Child Pornography Victim Restitution Improvement Act of 2015 (“Amy and Vicky Act”) on the Senate floor, making a compelling speech to urge other lawmakers to pass this important piece of legislation. In his introduction, Sen. Hatch noted that the Amy and Vicky Act currently has the support of at…