Monday, March 18, 2013
New Jersey state senator spearheads new crackdown calling for closing loopholes and strengthening current law.
A proposed law passed by the state Senate Monday, March 18 sponsored by state Sen. Kevin O’Toole (R-Bergen, Essex, Morris, Passaic) will strengthen penalties for child pornographers, officials said. The bill, also sponsored by Senate President Steven Sweeney and state Sen. Donald Norcross, would amend the “No Early Release Act” to raise child pornography charges from a second-degree crime to a first-degree crime, closes many of the loopholes and strengthens the current law, O’Toole said. If signed by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the law would force anyone convicted of child pornography charges to serve 85 percent of their time and protects children under the age the 18. Current law only protects children aged 16 and under, O’Toole said…
Friday, January 4, 2013
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’…
Monday, June 11, 2012
Hundreds of American customers arrested after extradition battle brings Ukrainian man to United States last weekend.
A Ukrainian man who authorities said ran an online child pornography site featuring horrific images and video is in U.S. custody today after losing a three-year extradition battle, the US Attorney’s office said at a press conference in Newark. Maksym Shynkarenko, 33, was brought to this country this past weekend from Thailand, where he had been in custody since 2009 after being arrested while on vacation. A 32-count indictment states Shynkarenko founded a Ukraine-based site with thousands of customers around the world, including nearly 600 American men, 30 of whom are from New Jersey — including Stephen Lasher of Verona. Shynkarenko was expected to appear in Newark federal court today. “He may be the most significant distributor of child …
