Child Pornography and Pedophilia: Hearings Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, Part 1

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Page 79 - The child shall be protected against all forms of neglect, cruelty and exploitation. He shall not be the subject of traffic, in any form. The child shall not be admitted to employment before an appropriate minimum age; he shall in no case be caused or permitted to engage in any occupation or employment which would prejudice his health or education, or interfere with his physical, mental or moral development.
Page 61 - ... the Department of State: US Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520.
Page 79 - Assembly proclaims this Declaration of the Rights of the Child to the end that he may have a happy childhood and enjoy for his own good and for the good of society the rights and freedoms herein set forth...
Page 16 - I would ask each of you to please stand and raise your right hand. Do you swear the testimony you will give before this Subcommittee will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God. Mr.
Page 39 - Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you will give before the subcommittee will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Mr.
Page 42 - ... appreciable number of those individuals involved in trafficking of child pornography. These individuals do not transport their material through the mails for the purpose of sale or distribution for sale and therefore do not violate the provisions of the statute.
Page 104 - Paper presented at the Fourth International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect. Paris, France, 9/9/82. Watson, Russell, et al. "A Hidden Epidemic.
Page 40 - ... ALSO BEEN CLERGYMEN, TEACHERS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, JOURNALISTS AND BUSINESSMEN. WE INVESTIGATE THE DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIAL OF BOTH DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ORIGIN. GENERALLY, THE DOMESTIC MATERIAL IS OF THE "HOMEMADE" VARIETY, WHILE THE IMPORTED MATERIAL IS PRODUCED BY COMMERCIAL DEALERS. WE HAVE ALSO NOTED THAT ONCE AN ITEM OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY BEGINS TO CIRCULATE, IT IS REPRODUCED FOR FURTHER DISTRIBUTION, TIME AND TIME AGAIN. AS A RESULT, A DISTRIBUTOR MAY BE MANY TIMES REMOVED FROM THE ORIGIN OF...
Page 10 - Kaab. contrasting the response of the Dutch government to those of Denmark and Sweden. said in his testimony before the Subcommittee in November. 1984. that *(t)he Dutch officials. . .have remaIned relatively silent In this area. As you know. Amsterdam is sort of the 1984 version of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Page 22 - Acapulco, Mexico. The father of his large and very poor family was approached three weeks before by a visiting Anglo who offered to take the boy to New York, provide him with an education, teach him English, and eventually find him a job.

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