I questioned myself whether or not I wanted to post a story about child porn so close to Christmas, but then I thought: the devil does not honor Our Lord's Birthday; and the children are still crying. What better day to pray for the safety of our most innocent brothers and sisters than when God Almighty came to Earth as a humble child.
Child porn is crossing all social, economic, racial, religious, and gender lines. Here is the proof: a once-prominent spokesman for Roman Catholic bishops in Canada who helped organize World Youth Day in Toronto is being accused of producing and distributing child pornography. This comes in the wake of the earlier conviction of a Canadian Bishop who was sentenced to 15 months in jail and two years of probation after he was caught at the Ottawa airport with hundreds of pornographic images of young boys on his laptop and a hand-held device.Also, this month, the multimillionaire founder of a South Texas cargo airline was given 30 years in prison for federal child pornography charges, after authorities found more than 2,400 images and 18 child pornography videos on his laptop and two external hard drives. Then, in Florida, hours after launching national press and social media efforts, federal authorities arrested a 25-year-old woman alleged to be a child porn producer and rescued her toddler victim.Lastly, (12/21/12) a Montana teenage boy was sentenced to 10 years in prison for distributing child porn.
This is only a small sampling of the child porn arrests and convictions which have taken place over the past month. I chose these cases as they seem to represent a cross-section of those who are now being caught up in the supreme evil of child porn. And I will guarantee you, these people did not start their porn careers with child porn, like a drug addict, they most likely began their cycle of addiction with lesser potent material; no one does heroin their first time out. All these men, and women, were groomed by the so-called main-stream pornographic media.