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The most infamous of the eight cases in question involves the 2013 sentencing of Wesley Hawkins, who was 18 when he was busted posting videos to YouTube of boys as young as 11 being raped by adult men.
Jackson, citing his young age, sentenced Hawkins to just three months in prison, as opposed to the 24 months recommended by prosecutors.
'I am not persuaded that two years in prison is necessary,' she said at the time, according to the new transcripts, citing Hawkins' 'future potential'.
'This is a truly difficult situation,' she told Hawkins, according to the transcript. 'I appreciate that your family is in the audience. I feel so sorry for them and for you and for the anguish that this has caused all of you.'
Explaining her lenient sentence for Hawkins, Jackson explained that the more than 600 images of child sexual abuse 'don't signal an especially heinous or egregious child pornography offense.'
At recent hearings, Jackson explained that she believes sentencing guidelines in child pornography cases are outdated, because they derive from a time before the internet, when offenders would have to receive each image of child sexual abuse through the mail.
Jackson said the structure of the sentencing guideline is 'not doing the work of differentiating who is a more serious offender in the way that it used to.'