The federal crime of child-young pornography on internet in pernambuco state – Brazil from 2015 to 2019

This article addresses the panorama of the federal crime of child-young pornography committed through the internet, in Pernambuco State, in Brazil. It has as its main goal to trace the profile of the accused, analyze the penalties applied, assess the duration of the processes and their obstacles, determine the level of compliance of the offered complaints, and evaluate whether there was an increase in the number of criminal actions and police inquiries in the period. For these aspects, the chosen method was a cross-sectional methodology, by using data collection in court cases and police inquiries, between 2015 and 2019. Results indicate that all the accused were men, most of them aged from 31 to 40 years old, not recidivist in sexual crimes using pseudonyms or fake profiles, did not practice sexual abuse, did not pay any bail to the police, had good social conduct, and only committed the crime to satisfy their own lust. The average of freedom restrictive sentences was 6 and half years, while fines were, on average, 10 minimal salaries and the whole duration of the process was about 9 months. For the authors, condemnations, even to high sentences for crime of child-young pornography, eliminate the sensation of impunity that exists in society about the theme, and still that speed predominated in criminal actions processed and judged in Federal Justice. Although one can register a growing number of federal cases on child-young pornography through Internet, during this study, it was not possible to watch a linear and exponential growth curve in the number of penal actions and police inquiries. Efficiency oriented the work of penal chasing, presenting 73% of condemnations and 82% of conformity from offered complaints in comparison with uttered sentences.