Data from the Pew Internet and American Life Project suggests that 70 percent of to year-old internet users accidentally view porn "very" or "somewhat" often. Police were called in and their investigation led them to other phones containing more photos, it said. The age-old notion, " My child would never do that," persists. But Patrick Artur, a Philadelphia defense attorney who by his reckoning has handled at least 80 child pornography cases, said the prosecution of minors for photos they took themselves runs counter to the purpose of both state and federal child pornography laws: Well-intentioned parents who dole out smartphones and other devices to teens or younger children should consider the ramifications. Like Cerberus, Greek mythology's three-headed dog who guards the gates of hell, the triumvirate of accessibility, affordability and anonymity serves as the modern-day, three-headed beast of the virtual abyss. The corrosive nature of today's explicit content, its insidiousness and ubiquity, has infiltrated the vast majority of the digital landscape that millions of minors visit daily.
