Mike Pence: “before us today is the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (H.R. 4472). I am a strong supporter of this…”

“before us today is the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (H.R. 4472). I am a strong supporter of this legislation, and urge its passage. Title V of this legislation is derived from a bill that I introduced in the First Session of this Congress, the Child Pornography Prevention Act. As the title states, the intent of my legislation is to prevent American children from becoming victims of pornography because as we know, Mr. Speaker, the fuel that fires the wicked hearts of child predators is child pornography. Every day in America, children are exploited in pornography-- sometimes by those closest to them in their homes. In the home, children are forced to pose for pornographic pictures or act in pornographic videos by family members, family friends, caretakers and other trusted individuals who violate that trust. These pictures and videos are posted on the Internet or surreptitiously spread to sexual predators. A main tenet of my legislation is the addition of language that will fix a technicality that so-called home pornographers have used to evade federal prosecution on child pornography charges. Home pornographers use digital cameras, Polaroid cameras and video cameras to make pornographic pictures and videos of children, and they download child pornography from the Internet onto their home computers.…”