Appellate decision on child pornography

In US v. Apodaca the 9th Circuit Court of appeals offered an answer today on whether it is reasonable to place someone who has been convicted of possessing child porn on lifetime supervision under the theory that they are likely to engage in the actual sex abuse of children at some point.

Judge Cudahy decided that while the scientific evidence points to the fact that there is no correlation between a person viewing child pornography and that same person sexually abusing a child, there is also no scientific research that says it is unlikely that a person viewing child pornography would sexually abuse a child, and therefore lifetime supervision is reasonable for people who view or possess child pornography.