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Level 7: Explicit Sexual Activity.Involves <strong>to</strong>uch<strong>in</strong>g, mutual and selfmasturbation,oral sex and <strong>in</strong>tercourse bychild, not <strong>in</strong>volv<strong>in</strong>g an adult.Level 8: Assault.Pictures of children be<strong>in</strong>g subject <strong>to</strong> a sexualassault, <strong>in</strong>volv<strong>in</strong>g digital <strong>to</strong>uch<strong>in</strong>g, <strong>in</strong>volv<strong>in</strong>gan adult.Level 9: Gross Assault.Grossly obscene pictures of sexual assault,<strong>in</strong>volv<strong>in</strong>g penetrative sex, masturbation ororal sex <strong>in</strong>volv<strong>in</strong>g an adult.Level 10: Sadistic/Bestiality.a. pictures show<strong>in</strong>g a child be<strong>in</strong>g tied, bound,beaten, whipped or o<strong>the</strong>rwise subject <strong>to</strong>someth<strong>in</strong>g that implies pa<strong>in</strong>; b. pictureswhere an animal is <strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong> some form ofsexual behaviour with a child.In 2002, <strong>in</strong> England and Wales <strong>the</strong> Sentenc<strong>in</strong>g Advisory Panel (SAP) published its advice<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> Court of Appeal on offences <strong>in</strong>volv<strong>in</strong>g child pornography. The SAP believed that<strong>the</strong> nature of <strong>the</strong> material should be <strong>the</strong> key fac<strong>to</strong>r <strong>in</strong> decid<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> level of sentence, andadapted <strong>the</strong> Combat<strong>in</strong>g Paedophile In<strong>format</strong>ion Networks <strong>in</strong> Europe (COPINE) scale(above) <strong>to</strong> five levels. SAP dropped levels 1 <strong>to</strong> 3 completely, argu<strong>in</strong>g that nakedness alonewas not <strong>in</strong>dicative of <strong>in</strong>decency. The proposed structure was <strong>the</strong>refore that COPINE levels5 <strong>to</strong> 6 constitute sentenc<strong>in</strong>g level 1, and that COPINE levels 7 onwards each constitute an<strong>in</strong>dividual sentenc<strong>in</strong>g stage (Gillespie, 2003). Technically <strong>the</strong> SAP suggested that COPINElevels 4 and 5 should be <strong>in</strong>cluded, but <strong>the</strong> Court of Appeal rejected this and stated itshould be level 5. However, <strong>the</strong>re have been English cases where ‘naturist’ images havebeen <strong>the</strong> subject of crim<strong>in</strong>al charges. The Court of Appeal rejected <strong>the</strong> suggestion that animage under COPINE level 5 could not be <strong>in</strong>decent (Gillespie, personal communication).These levels have been fur<strong>the</strong>r revised. It would appear that most jurisdictions (for example,Australia) rely on case law ra<strong>the</strong>r than objective measures or scales <strong>to</strong> categorise <strong>the</strong>seimages.<strong>Child</strong> Pornography and Sexual Exploitation of <strong>Child</strong>ren Onl<strong>in</strong>e |15

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