1-year sentence for anime freakazoid

[Taro Toporific]

Conviction for child toon pornEdmonton Sun. Thu, October 20, 2005
...an Edmonton man has been convicted of importing Japanese magazines containing cartoon child pornography.
Gordon Tshun Chin, 26, pleaded guilty yesterday in provincial court to importing child porn and was given a one-year conditional sentence ....Judge David Tilley told the slight, bespectacled young man he would have put him behind bars...
"Certainly this is the kind of filth which should not be available to the public," said Tilley......although so-called anime containing child porn is not very prevalent here, Canadians need to know it is illegal. ...more...

[aljones15]

also of note Shojo manga is making it big in New York, but in censored form, I love the last little sentence about puritan values:

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/news/20051019p2g00m0dm010000c.html

[Mulboyne]

Heavier sentencing for this repeat offender:

AnimeNews: Virginia Man Gets 20 Years for Anime Child Porn
The Virginia man who was found guilty of 74 counts of child pornography in November, including several charges related to anime, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison...His conviction found him guilty of numerous charges related to both the "virtual" child pornography and the real child pornography. He was the first person convicted under the 2003 PROTECT act for life-like virtual child pornography. The [act] defines computer images that are indistinguishable from real children engaging in sexually explicit conduct as child pornography, while simple drawings which are easily distinguishable from real children are not considered child pornography.

Whorley was convicted on November 30, 2005, after a four-day jury trial, of using a public computer at a Virginia Employment Commission office on March 30, 2004, to receive 20 obscene Japanese anime cartoons that graphically depicted prepubescent female children being forced to engage in sexual intercourse with adult males.

(From The US Justice Department press release)