Realistic fake photos challenge child porn prosecutors.

Each week, about 100,000 sexually explicit images of children arrive on CDs or portable disk drives at Michelle Collins' office.

Although challenges to digital photos come in all types of criminal and civil cases, they are especially pronounced in child-pornography cases because of a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a ban on computer-generated child pornography. Defense attorneys are trying to use the ruling to introduce reasonable doubt in jurors' minds about the images' authenticity. And many law-enforcement officials worry that the time and money needed to withstand any challenges will only grow as technology improves and makes it more difficult to tell a computer-generated image from a real one...

Some of you work in the this arena. Please give us more insight into this issue so we can help to ensure children's safety.

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What Pushes Shooters Over?

After a week of deadly shootings across the country, including at least six-high profile rampages that killed 24 people, Americans are asking what made these mass murderers snap. One expert says that the common element in all these horrible crimes is the desire for attention. Is this your read on the situation?
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What about shootings becoming an ACCEPTED self-expression? Suicide in Micronesia and Samoa: A Critique of Explanations by Donald H. Rubinstein holds startling information that is highly relevant to our children and our schools.
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Yello Dyno's Monthly Memo, 11/06:
Curing the Black Plague of School Shootings gives more insight into these avoidable tragedies.