Court rules child pornographer’s 120-year sentence is neither cruel nor unusual

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12. He did molest the boy.

Nobody questions that.

The issue is that molesting the boy, which one assumes most of us would consider the paramount offense, is a relatively minor infraction.

The most serious charges against him stemmed from his admission... that he had taken photographs of himself doing so

That is the issue—that the most serious crime here (in the government's view) is not molesting the boy, but the vastly more serious crime (in the view of the government, of congress, of the system) of taking pictures of the act.

It is bizarre to have created a system where child rape is not the most serious charge.