New Bill Proposes Harsher Penalties for Child-Porn Offenders
State Senator Kevin O'Toole drafts “No Early Release Act,” for child-pornography offenders.
New Jersey may soon be dishing out more severe penalties to child-pornography offenders, when State Senator Kevin O’Toole (R-Bergen, Essex, Morris, Passaic) introduces a bill to the State Senate. O'Toole is introducing the “No Early Release Act,” after reading a recent Star-Ledger exposé “depicting a rapid proliferation of child pornography,” he said. According to the report, the FBI reviewed 14.2 million images depicting child-sex acts in 2010. In 2011, the same department, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, reviewed more than 22 million images and videos, showing an increase of 55 percent. “Many factors often cause this sick and incomprehensible behavior that is so difficult to read about, let alone experience,” O’…
