Life sentence for possession of child pornography spurs debate over severity

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Does downloading child pornography from the Internet deserve the same criminal punishment as first-degree murder? A circuit court judge in Florida clearly thinks so: On Thursday, he sentenced Daniel Enrique Guevara Vilca, a 26-year-old stockroom worker whose home computer was found to contain hundreds of pornographic images of children, to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

source: Article 'Life Sentence for Possession of Child Pornography Spurs Debate Over Severity' by Erica Goode; www.nytimes.com/2011/ 11/05/us/life-sentence- for-possession-of-child- pornography-spurs- debate.html?_r=2; NYTimes.com; 4 November 2011