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Interesting report on long state sentence for child porn offense

By Douglas A. Berman

At the same time I have been following closely the debates and controversies over long child porn offense sentence in the federal system, I have been wondering how (and how many) such cases are handled at the state level.  On that front, I found interesting this local story from Florida headlined "Gibsonton man gets 55 years in child porn case."  Here are the details: A Gibsonton man arrested in a sting in which he thought he was going to have sex with a 12-year-old mentally challenged girl was sentenced today to 55 years in prison. Deputies found thousands of photographs and videos of child pornography on the computer of Carl M. Cocking, 37. Prosecutors said it was the longest prison term ever handed down in Hillsborough County for downloading child porn...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 21, 2010 (boomark / email).