April 2006
SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN OVER THE INTERNET: WHAT PARENTS, KIDS AND CONGRESS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CHILD PREDATORS
Hearings before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce
House of Representatives
Washington D.C.
Testimony of Frank Kardasz:
(excerpt)
...like all of our colleagues nationwide, we have many more solvable case files at the ready than we have personnel and resources to bring in the offenders. Sadly, while these cases await investigation, children and teens continue to suffer at the hands of Internet sex offenders. - Dr. Frank Kardasz
I have had the opportunity to speak with many citizen groups about Internet crime, and at the end of each presentation, there is often some senior individual in the group who raises his hand and says: "Why dont they just shut that dang Internet thing off?" As if we have a control panel somewhere with a dial that we can turn, and it will regulate Internet misconduct.
Your legislation is the closest thing we have to an Internet control dial, and although opponents of controls argue that regulations are costly, imperfect, and violations of Constitutional freedoms, I sometimes wonder what the framers of the Constitution would have thought if they had known what we know now about computers and the Internet. Would they have permitted the Internet crimes against children that we are witnessing today?
Complete Hearing Transcript:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-109hhrg30793/html/CHRG-109hhrg30793.htm
(excerpt)
...like all of our colleagues nationwide, we have many more solvable case files at the ready than we have personnel and resources to bring in the offenders. Sadly, while these cases await investigation, children and teens continue to suffer at the hands of Internet sex offenders. - Dr. Frank Kardasz
I have had the opportunity to speak with many citizen groups about Internet crime, and at the end of each presentation, there is often some senior individual in the group who raises his hand and says: "Why dont they just shut that dang Internet thing off?" As if we have a control panel somewhere with a dial that we can turn, and it will regulate Internet misconduct.
Your legislation is the closest thing we have to an Internet control dial, and although opponents of controls argue that regulations are costly, imperfect, and violations of Constitutional freedoms, I sometimes wonder what the framers of the Constitution would have thought if they had known what we know now about computers and the Internet. Would they have permitted the Internet crimes against children that we are witnessing today?
Complete Hearing Transcript:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-109hhrg30793/html/CHRG-109hhrg30793.htm
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