{The Bundestag has passed a law that more clearly defines and more strictly punishes the purchase and sale of child pornography, crimes that will now warrant a minimum sentence of two years in prison.}<\/p>\n
Germany has amended its laws prohibiting the sale of pornographic images of children, a legal gray area that until now saw no rigorous definition in place for offenders, and relatively lax minimum prison sentences.<\/p>\n
At a debate ahead of the parliamentary vote on Friday, Federal Justice Minister Heiko Maas said the amendment now made it “absolutely clear that nobody in Germany could use a child’s body to earn money,” adding, however, that parents could still take pictures of their naked children without worrying about breaking the law.<\/p>\n
The new law qualifies an image or video as pornography if it “shows the unclad genitals or buttocks of a child or adolescent, or if a clad child or adolescent is pictured in a way that accentuates those body parts,” said Johannes Fechner, a parliamentary legal spokesman for the Social Democrats, the junior coalition partner of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats.<\/p>\n
Under the current law, the sale of child pornography carries a one-year prison sentence or a fine, while possession carries a sentence of two years or a fine. The new bill would increase the minimum punishment for the former to two years and the latter to three years.<\/p>\n
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