Mr. Chairman, thank you for putting the Amy and Vicky Act on the agenda and for bringing it up today. I re-introduced this bill last week with 35 bipartisan co-sponsors, including seven on each side of this committee. That is ...
Click on the headings for the bill text [itroclickpopup id=”1″] Section 1. Short Title [/itroclickpopup] This Act is named after “Amy” and “Vicky” who are victims in two of the most widely-distributed child pornography series in the world. In Paroline ...
Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, today I am introducing legislation to help victims of child pornography, one of society’s most heinous crimes. I am joined by 34 Senators on both sides of the aisle. I hope that this legislation will soon ...
Senator Hatch: I am today introducing legislation to help victims of child pornography receive the restitution that Congress has already said they deserve. The Supreme Court said last year that the current restitution statute, enacted more than 20 years ago, ...
One Mother’s Story by Alice How many people remember when they were a young child being given an innocent “timeout ” for something they didn’t do or something they did that was wrong? You had to sit in a chair ...
On April 23, 2014, the United States Supreme Court issued a much-anticipated decision concerning federal criminal restitution for child pornography victims. The case, Paroline v. United States, 134 S. Ct. 1710, 188 L. Ed. 2d 714 (2014), attracted 14 amicus ...
Today, forty four attorneys general endorsed the Amy and Vicky Child Pornography Victim Restitution Improvement Act of 2014 and requested that Congress bring the bill to a vote. Calling the United States Supreme Court decision in Paroline v. United States ...
by blogger James R. Marsh Despite Congress’ longstanding mandate that each and every federal child pornography defendant pay restitution to victims, in reality the vast majority of convicted child pornography criminals pay no restitution at all. As I wrote here ...
United States District Court Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., in one of the first reported cases since the Supreme Court’s April 23, 2014 decision in United States v. Paroline, illustrates the growing frustration within the federal courts which are struggling to ...
Last week, another federal district court struggling to implement the Supreme Court’s decision in Paoline admonished Congress to fix the law. In a child pornography restitution case, Chief Judge Anne L. Aiken of the United States District Court for the ...