Judge sentences US attorney who challenged common police Internet ...

I am of two minds on these issues. As a parent, I can appreciate that we need to get these people off the streets, plain and simple. As an intellectual, though, it seems to me that this falls into the same category as creating fake pedophiliac porn with computer-generated images.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis on Wednesday reinstated the jury's verdict against Helder and sent the case back to Whipple for sentencing. The appeals court said the critical issue was that Helder thought he was seducing a minor, not whether the minor truly existed.

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