The Senate last week a bipartisan Child Pornography Prevention Act, sponsored by Sen. Kevin O'Toole (R-Bergen, Essex, Morris, Passaic) passed, according to a release to the Times.
"The legislature has the duty to one of the most important initiatives in state history to pass to protect children from the most dangerous predators and destroy a rapidly proliferating industry that ruins lives," O'Toole, a Cedar Grove resident, said in the release.
The measure, S-2493, co-sponsored by the chairman of the Democratic Senate Steve Sweeney and Sen. Donald Norcross, received final Senate committee approval last week by the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee.
According to the release, S-2493 can law enforcement and prosecutors child predators behind bars without parole or early release to keep them in position to uplift and convince per charge, making it easier for them to charge and sentenced for possession and spread through the establishment of the use of child pornography file-sharing programs as a second-degree crime.
The measure, which now wait state Assembly action include the following:
* Broaden the coverage of child victims under 18 years of age laws to cover the current law only covers those under 16 years of age.
* Upgrades causing a child to engage in pornography of a second-degree crime on a first-degree crime.
* Add the causes of crime or engaging in child pornography on the "No early release Act", which means a convict would be at least 85 percent of his or her sentence to serve eligible for release.
* Set a mandatory jail sentence for those convicted of distributing at least 25 images of child pornography, for a second or subsequent offense, it set a long prison sentence (relating to the first-grade fines) with no chance on parole.
* Upgrading of the crime of possession to 1/3-graad crime, from 1/4-graad crime, and take a mandatory prison sentence for a second or subsequent offense, a long prison sentence (related to second degree fines) with no chance of parole.
* Making peer-to-peer file sharing of a spread offense, rather than owned.
* City parooltoesig for life for those convicted of the production and distribution of child pornography, forcing them to reveal an online accounts and passwords.
* State a conviction for possession of child pornography of an offender's record expunged, making all child pornography crimes on offenders' records permanently.
"It is impossible to continued reports of child pornography cases in New Jersey and how a criminal enterprise is reinforced every time an innocent child suffer the worst insult imaginable stomach," O'Toole said.
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