Press Conference: The Department of Justice Makes List of Top Facilitators of Sexual Exploitation

Hosted by National Center on Sexual Exploitation
Speakers: Patrick A. Trueman, former Chief, Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, USDOJ and current President & CEO of NCOSE and Dani Bianculli, Executive Director of NCOSE Law Center

WHY:
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has been named by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation as a top facilitator of sexual exploitation. The DOJ, despite being the primary federal criminal investigation and enforcement agency, has abandoned its post in the fight for freedom from sexual exploitation, objectification, and violence. 

The Department of Justice refuses to enforce existing federal obscenity laws against pornography even though these laws have been upheld by U.S. Courts and previously enforced. Federal law prohibits distribution of obscene adult pornography on the Internet, on cable/satellite TV, on hotel/motel TV, in retail shops, through the mail, and by common carrier. The U.S. Supreme Court has also repeatedly upheld obscenity laws against First Amendment challenges, explaining that obscenity is not protected speech.

While the enforcers of the law have refused to do their job, pornography has become so pervasive in American society that it is creating a public health crisis with vast neurologically, psychologically, and sociologically damaging consequences.