Guest Blog: Social Workers Have a Role in Curbing Sexual Grooming in Schools

Guest Blog By Daniel Pollack & Robert Reiser The headlines tell the explicit stories of sexual grooming in schools: “How Teachers ‘Groom’ Students for Sexual Abuse” (Heldiz, 2019) “School Districts That Don’t Have Policies on Teacher-Student Boundaries Are Paying the Price” (Jimenez, 2019) “A Teacher’s Pet or a Victim of Sexual Abuse?”(McKibbin, 2018) A 2004 Read More…

Child Pornography Possession – Common Legal Questions Answered

Laws against child pornography are very stringent both at state and federal levels. Depending on the facts of the case, possession of child pornography can result in a lengthy prison sentence and life-long damage to your personal and professional life.If you are accused of possession or distribution of child pornography you need a lawyer that specializes in Read More…

Washington to Consider Changes to Sexting Teens and Child Pornography Laws

When laws are hastily written, vague or overly broad, they can do more harm than good.  I have previously written about the criminal sexual offense of Dealing in Depictions of a Minor Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct.  That crime is currently defined as any person that “develops, duplicates, publishes, prints, disseminates, exchanges, finances, attempts to Read More…