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In every single child pornography case handled by Judge Jackson, she
went below the maximum recommendation, below the minimum
recommendation, and below the prosecutor’s request.

The facts in many of these cases are far more heinous, and brutal –
even in the cases involving teenagers. In the now much-discussed
2013 case, United States v. Hawkins, Wesley Keith Hawkins was
arrested for possession of child pornography and sentenced by Judge
Jackson to just three months in prison despite the prosecution
asking for two years.

In 2013, Hawkins was busted posting videos on YouTube of
‘prepubescent boys engaged in sexual activity with each other,
including oral and anal penetration,’ according to court documents.
He told an undercover officer that he preferred children as young as
11 and sent him a video of a ‘prepubescent male masturbating.’ Investigators recovered 17 videos from his phone and laptop, which
showed, among other things, ‘an approximately 11-year-old male being
anally penetrated by an adult male.’

In her sentencing, Jackson ruled she didn’t think the volume and
content of porn he had was particularly egregious and she gave
Hawkins essentially a slap on the wrist — and then apologized to him
for it.

‘This is a truly difficult situation,’ she told Hawkins at
sentencing. ‘I appreciate that your family is in the audience. I
feel so sorry for them and for you and for the anguish that this has
caused all of you.’

Hawkins later went on to re-offend, and Judge Jackson placed him in
a halfway house for six months.

The other child pornography cases overseen by Jackson do not involve
teenagers. They involve grown men actively seeking to groom children
to have sexual intercourse, the distribution of sadomasochist
pornography with depictions of young male children, and a case where
a criminal distributed 102 child pornography videos and shared lewd
photos of his 10-year-old daughter, among others.

In every single child pornography case handled by Judge Jackson, she
went below the maximum recommendation, below the minimum
recommendation, and below the prosecutor’s request.

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