Does downloading child pornography from the internet deserve the same criminal punish as first degree murder. This debate came from the situation of A 26 year old stock worker name Daniel Enrique Guevara Vilca in Florida home computer contained up to hundreds of pornographic images of children. The judge sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Daniel had no previous criminal record. This has some of the criminal justice experts questioning if the harsh penalties really fit the crime. They even said that if had actually molested a child he might have actually received a lighter sentence. Daniel had nothing to do with the actual victimization of the children, they also had no evidence that he had every actually touched anybody. He did try to say that he didn’t know that the picture’s was on his computer. An assistant public defender in Missouri stated that most people assume that someone who looks at child pornography is also a child molester, but research show that this is not the case, many viewers of child pornography never molest children. In Florida possession of Child Pornography is a third degree felony, punishable by up to five years in prison, Daniel had 454 counts of possession. Each count represented one image found on the computer. A life sentence is given for first degree murder and possession of child pornography is not the equivalent of first degree murder.
This causes a problem in society because people may start to feel that the judicial system is being too harsh and start to protect, or some people might even thing that this man was punished enough. This debate and situation can cause a lot of uproar between people with different views and opinions.
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