WWW- Pat Trueman, a former federal porn prosecutor, commends the Department of Justice for a recent porn-related indictment, but argues the fight against hard-core porn is still being neglected.

The Justice Department has released details of an indictment against Loren Jay Adams, www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=28251 a small-time player in America’s porn empire who is accused of a role in vile pornography. Pat Trueman, a former pornography prosecutor, commends the agency for the indictment, but says the agency is missing the boat.

“What you need with the Justice Department is vigorous prosecution of all manner of pornography,” Trueman emphasizes. “I don’t mind that they prosecute this terrible stuff once in awhile, but most of the big producers and distributors of pornography have had a green light [from the Bush administration] to sell their stuff ….”

Trueman explains why Adams’ indictment is small potatoes. “What do most children access when they find pornography on a computer?” he asks. “They are accessing illegal, hard-core pornography … just garden-variety, hard-core pornography.”

And according to the former porn prosecutor, that is what leads to addiction to pornography as a teenager and adult — and some of those people become customers for other material that is considered the worst of the worst, he adds.

“You have now a second generation of kids growing up with a steady diet of pornography, and the Bush Justice Department looks the other way because they’re not willing to prosecute the major producers and distributors of illegal pornography that get that material to our kids,” Trueman laments.

Officials with the porn industry in years past have made the statement that if they can hook a youngster starting around age 11, they will have a customer for life.