"The Supreme Court is about to get a justice who goes easy on sexual exploiters of children"

BY KEVIN R. BROCK, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 03/27/22 09:30 AM EDT

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CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL

“Child pornography” is one of those sanitized phrases like “concentration camp” or “special military operation” that doesn’t nearly describe the horrors of its true nature.

It’s a term that can be used sotto voce in polite company when the uncomfortable subject comes up at a cocktail party or, say, a Supreme Court nominee confirmation hearing.

Referring to thecruel sexual abuse of small children in bland language enables superficial discourse

like that witnessed during this week’s Senate Judiciary Committee interview of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, whom President Biden has nominated to fill the seat of retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. It allowed a sterile legal exchange between senators and Jackson without having to say out loud the violent reality of what they really were talking about.

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Kevin R. Brock is a former assistant director of intelligence for the FBI and principal deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). He independently consults with private companies and public-safety agencies on strategic mission technologies.

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So, let’s set the context of what the term “child pornography” truly represents, investigations I supervised during my tenure with the FBI. Let’s say out loud what law enforcement encounters every day on an ever-increasing scale. And then let’s keep all that in mind as we review Jackson’s rationale for handing out lower sentences for the abusers who landed in her court.

Here is the hard reality: These images are of mostly prepubescent children down to infants. They are frightening, many are bloody, many depict screams and crying and pain and helplessness. They show little children drugged and forced to do horrific acts and to endure unspeakable, life-scarring abuse. They represent children who have been abducted, trafficked, lured into a neighbor’s or relative’s house or, unbelievably, turned over by a parent to an abuser for money.

This sick industry scans social media platforms, copies the photos you post of your little ones, and then digitally manipulates them into vile images. Be aware, parents.

–It isn’t “child pornography”; it is mostly the actual or depicted torture of small, innocent children by grown men who record the torture and sell it to other men,==

who perpetuate the crime by trading the content and creating new demand, which, in a vicious cycle, generates more little victims. This is the reality that makes Jackson’s efforts to explain her soft approach toward these criminals all the more troublesome.

During her Senate confirmation hearing, Jackson … (moar)…