From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 21:56:55 +0800
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Subject: Internet Child Pornographers Convicted [CNN]
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>                INTERNET CHILD PORNOGRAPHERS GET LONG JAIL TERMS
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>      October 23, 1997
>      Web posted at: 3:24 p.m. EDT (1924 GMT)
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>      SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) -- Three members of an international
>      child pornography ring that used the Internet to transmit pictures
>      of children were sentenced to jail.
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>      The men were jailed for their part in a wide-ranging, Internet-based
>      conspiracy in which several children, aged 10 or younger, were used
>      in sexually explicit acts to produce pornographic pictures and
>      videotapes, the U.S. Attorney's office said.
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>      U.S. District Judge James Ware on Wednesday sentenced the three
>      members of the "Orchid Club" in a San Jose courtroom after a long
>      hearing that included poignant personal statements by the victims.
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>      The U.S. Attorney's office in San Jose said Ronald Riva, 38, of
>      Greenfield, California, was sentenced to 30 years in prison; David
>      Tank, 35, of Cheney, Washington, to 19 years and 7 months; and
>      Christopher Saemisch, 38, of Lawrence, Kansas, to 11 years.
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