Category Archives: Sex Crimes
How Pennsylvania’s S__ Offender Registration (SORNA) Works And What Tier You May Fall Under
If you or someone you love is facing a sex crime charge in Pennsylvania, one question tends to come up fast: will this mean registering as a sex offender, and for how long? It’s a fair question, and an understandably stressful one. Pennsylvania’s registration system can feel like a maze of legal jargon, but… Read More »
You Can Get Into Legal Trouble Online Even If Your Actions Do Not Amount To Online Solicitation
If you are old enough to remember the days of My Space, and especially if you belong to the generation that considered Internet use a nerdy hobby worthy of derision, then the thought of how much trouble teens can get into through routine use of the Internet is horrifying. In the old days, you… Read More »
What If Pennsylvania Is Not The First State Where You Get Accused Of A Sexual Offense?
Anyone with a prior criminal conviction knows that the social stigma lasts well beyond when you have paid off the debts you incurred to pay your criminal fines and long after your last meeting with your probation officer. Every time you fill out a job application, your heart sinks whenever you must answer the… Read More »
Farmer’s Market Shop Owner Faces Charges For Solicitation Of Minors
Today, we see the progress the labor movement in the United States made over the 20th century going in reverse. Fewer jobs offer pensions, employer-provided retirement savings, long-term employment contracts, and other signs of permanence and stability than they did a generation ago. Wages have barely increased even as the prices of most consumer… Read More »
Bucks County Teacher Arrested For Possession Of Child Abuse Images
The most serious penalties in criminal cases are reserved for crimes that involve physical injury or depriving someone of valuable property. The criminal court can still charge you and convict you if you were doing something that would likely result in bodily harm, theft, or destruction of someone else’s property, though. Drunk driving is… Read More »
Sting Operation At Massage Parlors Leads To Two Arrests On Sex Crime Charges
Trust is the magic ingredient in true intimacy, but it is so elusive that you cannot buy it at any price. Love is a subtle exchange of incomprehensible symbols and the disclosure of unknowable intentions. Commercial sex, by contrast, is a straightforward transaction, at least in theory. The problem is that it is illegal,… Read More »
The Afterlife Of A Sex Crime Conviction
Rebuilding your life after a criminal conviction is a challenge; the support of family and friends makes it easier, especially if they can help you reenter the workforce, so you do not always have to explain to prospective employers why a conviction appears on your record. Eventually, you can get your voting rights back. … Read More »
Nonconsensual Dissemination Of Intimate Content
Everyone with enough presence of mind not to publicly share photos of their breakfast and videos of their morning routine online has a reasonable fear of the malicious gossip of the Internet. The trolls online are exponentially more vicious than any troll that ever lurked under a bridge in your childhood nightmares. Of course,… Read More »
Is Streaking A Crime?
You know that you have successfully attended an epic party when someone disrobes and runs across the lawn in his birthday suit. Dropping your trousers and mooning the motorists who pass by your house is a juvenile prank, but full body nudity in full view of everyone present for as long as it takes… Read More »
Pittsburgh Sex Trafficking Case Results In Prison Sentence For Man Who Coerced Women Into Engaging In Commercial Sex Acts
Former drug users who are willing to speak about their journey to sobriety may tell people about their worst moments brought about by drug addiction. To scare drug-naïve people out of using drugs, or to show fellow addicts that they are not alone in their traumatic experiences, they may enter dangerous and physically and… Read More »
