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.O’Connor said the departure was justified because the defendant ‘knowingly risked the life of his victim when he choked her’.He said the sentence was reasonable ‘in light of the horrific circumstances of the defendant’s strangulation of Christina, dumping of her dead body, and efforts to cover up his involvement’.Christina’s death received national attention and sparked a push in Congress for a kids-only domain on the internet.On 27 May 2003, it was announced that legislation allowing Connecticut Police to more swiftly investigate internet sex crimes like the one that led to the death of Christina Long had failed because state lawmakers were concerned about violating civil liberties.So, while officials praised the quickness of the FBI in tracking down Dos Reis, state experts and local police felt that Connecticut’s reliance on federal agencies was unwise, given the rapid spread of internet sex crime.‘Everybody has their own job to do,’ said Danbury Detective Captain Mitchell Weston, ‘and we were lucky in this case that the FBI wasn’t in the middle of something.’It seemed unlikely that the killing could have been prevented.FBI spokeswoman Lisa Bull said the FBI learned of previous contact between the girl and the older Dos Reis only during the investigation into her killing.Laws proposed in the General Assembly would have helped track down the perpetrators in cases where police have knowledge of illegal internet contact between adults and children.The bureau – comprising only state police – responsible for dealing with internet crime have written bills empowering state authorities to more easily obtain internet users’ identities and communications logs.These bills would, in theory, have encompassed not only the use of internet messages to lure someone to a potentially indecent encounter, but also the murkier depths of the provision of indecent imagery of children.Unfortunately, they did not survive the legislative committee process.Griswold’s Democrat representative, Steven Mikutel, a co-sponsor of one of the bills, said the Legislature did not have the political will to make it law.‘There is a group out there that doesn’t want to put any restrictions on the internet,’ he said, adding, ‘They don’t want to invade anyone’s privacy.But public safety factors have to come into consideration here.’Danbury Police Chief Robert Paquette offered this: ‘You’re getting into civil liberties now.I don’t think either the federal government or the state can go that far.’Later, another man who had had sex with the clearly underage Christina was put out of commission.On 15 March 2004, 24-year-old Carlos Estanqueiro, also a former resident of Danbury, was sentenced to 46 months for the offence.He had pleaded guilty the previous December to using the internet for the purposes of ‘persuading a minor to engage in sex’.Estanqueiro, it materialised, had met Christina over the internet in February 2002.The pair had subsequently engaged in sexual activities several times.New Haven US District Judge Janet B Arterton ensured that, in addition to the prison time Estanqueiro would serve, there would be a further three years of supervised release.It was further stipulated that Estanqueiro register as a convicted sex offender on his release.Arterton also ordered that he undergo mental-health counselling, not frequent locations where children are known to congregate and not use a computer except for work-related purposes.Estanqueiro was also an illegal alien.As such, he could be subject to deportation after serving his time.The battle to protect children from internet stalkers continues.On one website visited by the authors, it is clear that help is available:‘The freedom that makes the internet so useful also makes it dangerous.In teen chatrooms, sexual predators can hunt for their victims online, 24 hours a day,’ it warns.The existence of links such as ‘Wise up to Internet Predators’, ‘Protecting Kids From Internet Porn’ and ‘Children, Sex and the Web’ makes it clear that at least we are on the right track.A lawyer and expert in the field of internet abuse, Parry Aftab, says, ‘Internet predators attempt to lure thousands of children every year to offline meetings
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Christie Craig [Divorced, Des Divorced, Desperate
Moore Christopher Ssij, mała, ssij (II)
Stasheff, Christopher Wizard in Rhyme 6 Haunted Wizard
Christine Feehan Mroczna Seri Mroczny Demon
Cidney Swanson [Saving Mars Saving Mars (epub)
Stasheff, Christopher Rogue Wizard 04 A Wizard in Peace
Feehan Christine Mroczna Seria 01 Mroczny Ksišże
Stasheff, Christopher Warlock 01 The Warlock in Spite of Himself
Christine Feehan Mroczna Seria 13 Mroczne Przeznaczenie