A Richmond man who used a public computer at a Virginia Employment Commission office to send and receive child pornography, including Japanese anime cartoons, was convicted of 74 counts Thursday in U.S. District Court, the federal prosecutor's office said.
Dwight Whorley, 53, is the first person convicted under a 2003 law that criminalizes the production or distribution of drawings or cartoons showing the sexual abuse of children, according to U.S. Attorney Paul J. McNulty, who also is acting deputy attorney general.
A jury convicted Whorley of 20 counts of receiving obscene materials, 20 counts of receiving obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children, 14 counts of receiving child pornography and 20 counts of sending and receiving obscene e-mails describing the sexual abuse of children.
U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson set sentencing for March 10. Whorley faces a maximum sentence of 1,160 years in prison and an $18.5 million fine.
The cartoons depicted female children being forced to have sex with adult males. Whorley also received digital photographs of actual children engaging in sexual conduct and sent and received e-mails graphically describing parents sexually molesting their children.
Whorley previously was sentenced to 46 months in prison for a 1999 child pornography conviction.
Conflicting sources: dailypress, TimesDispatch.com
Thanks to romanji (Lolicon Illegal In Us?)
"What's possibly more worrying is the "obscenity" clauses in the federal laws. Anything not obscene in hentai manga? Scat, guro (whoops, scratch that, violence is ok in US), rape, electricity and other forms of sexual torture, there goes 80% of it right there. Hell, even futanari itself may be considered obcene."
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