If you see child porn and don't want your name on the report

Also, I am sure that transmitting a link to an active member of the National District Attorneys Association [me] will not be considered to be anything other than reporting. If that is not enough to make you feel secure in reporting through me, consider that communications to me are confidential under attorney/client privilege and cannot be collected or used as evidence. There are no worries in sending me links to suspected sites--I want to see all suspected CP reported so I want to make it as easy and anonymous as possible.

Also, just curious, does that go for anyone? I mean, I have had a few people from other boards ask about reporting it. Is it possible to refer them to you or would that be too much?

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Originally Posted by Corey Bryant

Just curious - possessing it for the purpose of reporting it, how do you (the person who has it), well can it be proven that you were reporting it and not "using it"?

I have one client now that I have reported for child porn actually. He was reported to us by 2Checkout actually. He set up a website to sell nutritional items. He was actually selling CP thru those channels

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It must be proven that you were using it and not reporting it--not the other way around.
Here are some points I would consider before filing charges:
How many images are stored?
How many times did the suspect visit CP sites?
What actions did the suspect take after viewing the sites?

So, if you get a piece of spam, click on the link and see it is CP, then you send me an email with the link or you report the site right away, you are not in any danger of being charged with CP possession. However, if you decided to "gather evidence" by visiting the CP site 8 times a day and downloading 1000 images, and then decided to "report" it 3 months later, well, in legal terms I would say you are fucked.

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Originally Posted by Corey Bryant

Also, just curious, does that go for anyone? I mean, I have had a few people from other boards ask about reporting it. Is it possible to refer them to you or would that be too much?

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Anyone from anywhere can contact me. Email only please, however.

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Originally Posted by chadknowslaw

It must be proven that you were using it and not reporting it--not the other way around.
Here are some points I would consider before filing charges:
How many images are stored?
How many times did the suspect visit CP sites?
What actions did the suspect take after viewing the sites?

So, if you get a piece of spam, click on the link and see it is CP, then you send me an email with the link or you report the site right away, you are not in any danger of being charged with CP possession. However, if you decided to "gather evidence" by visiting the CP site 8 times a day and downloading 1000 images, and then decided to "report" it 3 months later, well, in legal terms I would say you are fucked.

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Thanks - we actually had this conversation in another forum a few months ago and of course no one really could answer it. So basically innocent until proven guilty on this? I mean, I know that is our judicial system but there are somethings that are a bit too scary.

I also sent you an email as well - once that has been reported but the masked site is still up. The client was from Russia so I am not certain if anything can be done about it.

He has been bad-mouthing me on a few websites because all the merchant accounts we set him up with have been terminated. Of course, I have not stated anything about why because I do not want to break our confidenitiality with personal finances / records.

And thanks - I'll let them know.

Great move ... I would personally report it too ... I don't really see what could possibly happen

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Originally Posted by chadknowslaw

The only thing worse than child porn is child porn that goes unreported.

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I agree completely