That's very odd. I can absolutely understand the difficulty with the exchange of real child pornography. That's wrong, wherever the exchange takes place, because a child would have been harmed in the making of it. For that reason, I can understand why the Second Lifers have to be tracked down and prosecuted.

But virtual child abuse - I'm having trouble getting my head around whether it's harmful of itself, or not. I'm amazed that Germany has an actual sentence for it, though; that seems amazingly progressive. I wonder if it really is a sentence for virtual child abuse, or whether that activity incidentally falls within the sentence for an existing crime.