{"id":288023,"date":"2024-05-22T07:05:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T07:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=288023"},"modified":"2024-05-23T06:43:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T06:43:29","slug":"germany-decriminalizes-child-porn-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=288023","title":{"rendered":"Germany decriminalizes child porn possession"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jen Hodgson \u2013 Western Standard May 21, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Germany\u2019s parliament has voted to remove the possession of child sexual abuse materials as a criminal offence.<\/p>\n

The country\u2019s Criminal Code will no longer include the section pertaining to child pornography, Bundestag (parliament) voted Thursday.<\/p>\n

Once the bill goes into effect, minimum sentencing for holding child abuse materials will be reduced and the criminal charge will become a misdemeanor, Reduxxed<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cPossession and acquisition should be punishable with a minimum penalty of three months\u2019 imprisonment, and distribution with a minimum penalty of six months\u2019 imprisonment, and distribution with a minimum penalty of six months\u2019 imprisonment,\u201d the bill states.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe offences regulated in Section 184b of the Criminal Code are therefore classified as misdemeanors and not as crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Germany only a few years ago in 2021 classified child pornography possession as a felony with a one-year minimum sentence by Federal Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht of the Social Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

Federal officials in the bill rationalized the decriminalization move protects parents and teachers who download the material for the purpose of informing police.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuch cases have occurred particularly frequently among parents and teachers of older children or young people who found child pornography on them and passed it on to other parents, teachers or the school management to inform them of the problem,\u201d states the bill.<\/p>\n

Rather than make certain exceptions to the criminal code to accommodate this concern, parliament cut the section of the bill altogether.<\/p>\n

\u201cA downgrade to a misdemeanor is also urgently required in order to be able to respond appropriately and with the necessary flexibility to the large proportion of juvenile offenders,\u201d it states.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere, too, the perpetrators generally do not act in order to be sexually aroused by the child pornography content, but rather out of a drive typical of the adolescent stage of development, such as naivety, curiosity, thirst for adventure or the desire to impress.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chairman of the child protection group German Children\u2019s Aid \u2013 The Permanent Children\u2019s Representation (Deutsche Kinderhilfe \u2013 Die st\u00e4ndige Kindervertretung) Rainer Becker warned parliament\u2019s recent decriminalization of these abusive materials could be a violation of a European Union directive that deems all material related to child pornography is a serious criminal offence.<\/p>\n

The county\u2019s Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) released a declaration stating \u201cthe distribution, possession and acquisition of child pornography must, in principle, remain classified as crimes,\u201d per Reduxx.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA blanket reduction in the penalty range is the wrong solution. A change should be limited to the problem cases and solve them effectively. Scientific findings show that if the penalty framework shifts downwards, the penalties imposed in practice also tend to be lower.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the bill has garnered widespread condemnation from Christians and children\u2019s rights groups, pro-peodophile groups have welcomed the change.<\/p>\n

German pro-pedophile activist group Krumme-13 (K13), which is described in German media as a so-called \u201cself-help\u201d organization for \u201cpedosexuals,\u201d have issued an announcement to its members offering legal advice to circumvent the law until the bill is passed.<\/p>\n

Anyone who visits the K13 website is advised to have their defence lawyers \u201csubmit applications for stays of proceedings on behalf of their clients in ongoing proceedings\u201d until the law goes into effect, wrote the group, according to Reduxx.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Just a few days prior to Thursday\u2019s vote, K13\u2019s founder on May 17 wrote a blog post lamenting Germany\u2019s 2021 criminalization of child pornography, and how no politicians have shows them any sympathy.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo politician in all factions apologized to the thousands upon thousands of those affected who fell victim\u201d to the 2021 update to the criminal code, wrote founder Dieter Gieseking.<\/p>\n

Gieseking has been charged multiple times for the possession of child pornography and has advocated for lowering the age of consent to 12-year-old children.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This happened with homosexuality, which was once a criminal offense, and now the same process is underway aimed at removing the stigma from paedophilia. The next step campaigners are working toward is lowering the age of consent to 12-years-old <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic-sexual-abuse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288024,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288023\/revisions\/288024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}