Calif. Panel Reinstates Child Porn Rap Despite Abuse History

By Elizabeth Daley ( December 10, 2025, 10:06 PM EST) -- A man who was abused as a child and raped as an adult cannot escape a child pornography conviction by arguing the abuse he endured led to the offense, a California state appeals court has ruled, finding in a reversal that his many traumas made it hard to ascertain a direct link to his crime....

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