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The problem with psychosexual evaluations is that at least one evaluator in Portland excuses a viewer of porn involving young looking girls, saying he had no problem because the girls "were likely post-pubescent." How much lower can the standard go in our society? Only pre-pubescent or pubescent kids are off limits now?

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Sadly, because of the explosion of images of child porn on the Internet in recent years (including a quadrupling of depictions of brutal sexual abuse of children between 2007-2009), and the anonymity and easy access the Internet provides viewers, which has increasingly hard-core porn free online, many "normal" persons who ordinarily would not seek out child porn get involved in seeking out harder and harder images, including younger and younger children. Donna Rice Hughes from Enough is Enough, a nationwide group protecting children from the harms of pornography, has spoken to Congress on this issue. See Enough is Enough website for links to many studies on this.

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The number of internet images of brutal rape, bondage, and other depraved abuses of children have quadrupled since 2007, according to the UN Human Rights Council. The World Congress Against the Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents in 2008 singled out internet traffic as the KEY to sexual exploitation of children. Internet servers in the US host 62% of the child pornography distributed online worldwide.

Oregon is way behind the times and its laws must match federal standards to prevent the increasing sexual abuse of children in our society, including sex trafficking of our young girls.

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The exact numbers of domestic victims of sex trafficking are not known, but between 20,000 to 25,000 unaccompanied youth ages 11 to 21 experience homelessness in Oregon each year (according to a 2007 report to the legislature and Governor on Runaway and Homeless Youth) and this youth population runs a much higher risk of sexual victimization and prostitution. Studies and FBI experts estimate that one-quarter to one-third of all children who run away or end up living on the streets are lured or forced into prostitution within 48 hours. These children should not be considered criminals, but victims.

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