Albuquerque Libraries Ban Sex Offenders

Anonymous says:

Certainly some crimes are so
Certainly some crimes are so repugnant that the offenders must be removed from society for a time. Come on, Are these young boys SOOOO repugnant? READ ON. Prison Time For Viewing Porn?
A Teenage Boy Faces Decades in Prison For Visiting Sexually Explicit Web Sites — But Was It Really Someone Else?
Police officers stormed into the house with guns pointed. “The first thing I thought was, someone’s trying to break in our house,” Matthew said. “And then there [were] police officers with guns pointed at me, telling me to get downstairs.”

Greg Bandy was handed the search warrant and informed that the central suspect was Matthew. According to the warrant, nine images of young girls in suggestive poses were found on the Bandy family computer. Yahoo monitors chat rooms for suspicious content and reported that child porn was uploaded from the computer at the Bandys’ home address.

“When they asked me have you ever looked up or uploaded or downloaded erotic images of minors, I was just taken aback and…I said, ‘No,'” says Matthew.

Nevertheless, Matthew did have an embarrassing confession. He had been sneaking peaks at adult erotic photos on the family computer. “I got the Web site from a bunch of friends at school. [It was] just adult pornography…Playboy-like images.”

Difficult to admit, but not illegal — or so it seemed. Still, it didn’t look good for Matt, as police confiscated the computer and left the house that December day. A family was shattered.

“We faced 10 years per count, there were nine counts,” said Novak. “If Matt was convicted, those sentences would have to be served consecutively. In other words, he would have been sentenced to 90 years in prison. He would have served time until he died.”

Another distrought Mom!!!!
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 09/27/2007 – 7:34pm.

Well,add me to the list,
My 17yr old son Christian is sitting in a Maximum Security Jail, in Bossier City,La. Arrested 8/31/07. We moved here from Ga. in June 07, and spent what little savings we had. And we own no property here, so we can’t even make bond. He was charged with 4 counts of pornagraphy involving a juvenile, that were found on our home computer. And his bond is set at $60,000 dollars, As a Mother I feel as though they have taken my son hostage and I can’t pay the ransom. I am outraged! that The Media has not Alerted us as Parents about these file-sharing programs and thier names, and to the vast amounts of free pornagraphy and illegal child pornagraphy on these networks, and how they can allow anyone under the age of 18 to subscribe without Parental consent? The media alerts us of lead painted toys, and faulty cribs, so we can take appropriate measures, they have even warned us of the predators in the chat rooms so I could warn him to be careful of who he talked too. The only thing I have heard on the news about file-sharing programs has been about copyright infringement, and I never heard the specific names of these programs. So I could be looking right at it,and not know what is was. Untill this happened, as a Mom I would never have even concieved of googling child porn and file=sharing programs. Not all of us want to be computer geeks. But we don’t want to discourage our kids from them. I had an anti-virus program and anti-spyware, but have since learned that they are no match for these programs, furthermore I’ve learned that the government has known of this for some time, in one of the articles I read they even stated “PARENTS DON’T KNOW, KIDS DON’T HAVE A CLUE”. The FBI is so far behind itself, in catching the Real Bad Guys, Who aren’t stupid, they disguise themselves, behind trickery and deception. Thats the point, our teenagers are being targeted not only by these sick individuals, who abduct and force children into unspeakable horrors, but now they’ve got our teens taking consequences, that were intended for them.
And the FBI are being pressured to make convictions, and they too, have found an easy target.
They are teens, and think like teens, they are not all technicaly advanced, their not college educated yet. Their teens, that for the most part want to listen to music and talk to their friends.
And to some of you jerks who have responded to these articles,If you thing for one minute that I don’t ask myself, every minute, of each day that passes, what else could I have done to prevent this from happening? If we are not told of these Dangers, How are we suppose to know to take appropriate actions against them.
I have done more research on the p2p programs, and viruses, and hackers, since my son’s arrest, and I have learned so much more that I would ever have wanted to know, and I can assure you that this is only the beginning of a huge storm…I printed out a copy of an FBI press release from June 13,07 That stated there is over 1 million potential victims of Botnet Cyber Crime.
As for my son,He is at the mercy of the court, and a Public Defender, and I am left Utterlly Powerless to do anything to help him. This is just Soooo Wrong!!!!!!!!!
Letitia Carter