But as I stated above, that path leads to ignoring mens rea. Instead of "did you mean to", it is "you possessed it, too bad". This is badness to the point that

But as I stated above, that path leads to ignoring mens rea. Instead of "did you mean to", it is "you possessed it, too bad". This is badness to the point that I could send people CP via picture message on their phones, and turn them in. Well can't we just make it a law that it's illegal to possess and intend to possess child porn? What's so hard about that. You can often tell based on the files in a computer whether they intended to posses it. Are there dozens/hundreds of images, or only one? Are the images organised, or in the temporary browser cache? Have the images been saved over many dates or were they all created at once? The solution is better written laws, not no laws. Or worst yet, a 15 yr old girl sent a naked picture to her boyfriend. And then, SHE was prosecuted for the production of child porn. And it's her own fucking body! Oh I agree that that should not be illegal. So it's just a matter of tweaking the law to exclude that.