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You're avoiding the point - a smartphone is a place where evidence can now exist where it couldn't before. Suppose a child discloses to a teacher that their fa

• AnthonyMouse 8y ago
  Get a warrant and set up surveillance. As soon as the surveillance captures the iPhone password, seize it.
• michaelmrose 8y ago
  Firstly you would do the same thing you would do in the overwhelming number of cases in which they tell their teacher their father raped them and didn't film it on their iphone. In most instances the perpetrator wont have obligingly kept evidence for you. This is something like the scenario in which we defend torture by positing a ticking time bomb scenario. Sure we want to break the terrorists fingers and lock away the pedophile until he brings forth evidence of his evil deeds but that doesn't make it it a good model to arrange our life and laws on. Logically you would secure the child so he couldn't come to harm. Interview him, interview the perp, other family members, other adults who interacted with the child say at school. Have a therapist/psychologist analyze the child's behavior. If you believe you need access to the phone/computer you could seize it while its unlocked, attack their phone, attack their home computer and use it to attack their phone, plant a bug/physically surveil them. In cases where it was vital cops seem to have been able to do this so far. They just wish they could do it more easily.