Georgia Man Pleads Guilty to Transporting a Minor for Illegal Sexual Activity

Mack Gordon Harris Sr., 67, of Social Circle, Ga., has pleaded guilty to transporting a minor for illegal sexual activity. Harris was indicted by a federal grand jury in Richmond, Va., on July 21, 2009. According to court documents, in June 2005, Harris...

Disadvantage Pornography

Presumably, the title of Jonathan Raban’s piece about the photographs of Dorothea Lange for the New York Review was entitled “American Pastoral” because, as his point of departure, he invokes William Empson’s Some Versions of...

Indiana Man Sentenced to 80 Months in Prison on Child Pornography Charges

James M. Tanksley, 52, has pleaded guilty to two counts of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 80 months in prison. Tanksley, a resident of Indianapolis, was also sentenced by U.S. District...

Texas Man Indicted in Child Pornography Case

Mark Edwin Cairnes, 51, of Jonestown, Texas, has been charged with advertising, receiving and possessing child pornography. A grand jury in the Western District of Texas returned the indictment against Cairnes on July 21, 2009, which was unsealed after...