hmmm.... if you hate somebody and want them to be put in jail for the rest of their life all you have to do is e-mail them an image of child porn and they are guilty because possession of the images is illegal. a easy high tech way to throw a bag of dope in somebodys house and get them busted. it seems like the the cops waste a huge amount of money investigating these victimless crimes and many people are jailed for the rest of their adult lives because of the draconian penalties these victimless crimes have. Original Article ASU stops child porn investigation Athletic department staff received e-mails last month Brian Indrelunas published on Friday, November 4, 2005 ASU police are no longer investigating 16 child-porn cases reported last month and will not hand the cases over to federal officials, an ASU detective said Thursday. "There's [nothing] to follow-up on," said Det. Terry Lewis after a computer-crime panel discussion held Thursday morning in the Computing Commons. The e-mails received by athletic-department staff members at the Intercollegiate Athletics building Oct. 17-19 contained four thumbnail-sized images of child pornography, Lewis said. Lewis, who investigates computer crimes for the ASU Department of Public Safety, said he discovered the e-mails were a type of spam that has been seen before by police across the country. Lewis said the e-mails have all been traced back to a number of other countries, many of which do not have computer-crime laws or extradition agreements with the United States. Thursday's panel discussion covered how law-enforcement agencies would respond to a variety of technology-related crimes, as well as how ASU's system administrators should handle potential tech crimes. Panelists told the audience to report possible child-porn cases directly to police. Lewis said employees who receive e-mails containing what may be child pornography should not forward them to supervisors because possession of the images is illegal. "Even if you have child porn in [temporary] files, that is considered to be illegal," he said. "Child pornography is just like drugs -- we're not going to let you keep it." Lewis said all the images in the recent child-porn cases had been deleted from e-mail servers. Reach the reporter at brian.indrelunas@asu.edu.