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'''Dwight Edwin Whorley''' (born 1952) is the first person to be charged under the [[PROTECT Act of 2003]] for ownership of [[lolicon]] [[pornography]].<ref>http://www.wric.com/Global/story.asp?s=3123260 WRIC-TV8: Groundbreaking Child Porn Case</ref>

In 1996, the United States Congress passed an act entitled the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996, which expanded the definition of [[child pornography]] to include virtual images. In 2002, the Supreme Court found that this law was unconstitutional due to its infringements on the First Amendment to the [[U.S. Constitution]].

In 2003, Congress passed a law including a slightly revised form of the virtual child pornography prohibition. This law has not yet been subject to judicial review. The definition in this law is: 
:''"[C]hild pornography" means any visual depiction, including any photograph, film, video, picture, or computer-generated image or picture, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means, of sexually explicit conduct, where…such visual depiction is a digital image, computer image, or computer-generated image that is, or is indistinguishable from, that of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct[.]''

Whorley was caught downloading the images from a computer at the Virginia Employment Commission while on parole for previous [[sex offense]] convictions. 

Whorley was convicted for receiving both "twenty obscene [[Japan]]ese [[anime]] cartoons that graphically depicted prepubesecent female children being forced to engage in genital-genital and oral-genital intercourse with adult males" and "fourteen digital photographs of actual children engaging in sexually explicit conduct" and for "sending and receiving twenty obscene E-mails which graphically described, among other things, parents having sex with their own children." <ref>http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/ceos/Press%20Releases/EDVA%20Whorley%20Verdict%20PR_120105.pdf</ref><ref>url=http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/ceos/Press%20Releases/EDVA%20Whorley%20Verdict%20PR_120105.pdf</ref>

A jury convicted him on 74 counts of child pornography charges. He was sentenced on March 10, 2006 to 20 years in prison.

Inmate Whorley (ID # 35337-083) is currently incarcerated in The Federal Correctional Institution Gilmer in Glenville, [[West Virginia]]. His projected release date is in September 3 2022.<ref>http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&LastName=Whorley&Middle=&FirstName=Dwight&Race=U&Sex=U&Age=&x=0&y=0</ref>

An appeal was made and rejected on December 19, 2008, where a judge voted to uphold the PROTECT Act of 2003, and that the people depicted in images did not need to exist for it to be a crime, similar to the ruling in Canada from 1993.

==See also==
*[[Lolicon]]

==External links==
*[http://sex-offender.vsp.virginia.gov/sor/servlet/SOR?id=X000094924 Whorley's profile on Virginia Sex Offender Registry]
*[http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-795.ZS.html Cornell Law School summary of 2002 Supreme Court declaration of unconstitutionality of the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996]

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