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Man sentenced to 20 years for receiving anime child porn.

He’s the first person convicted under a 2003 federal law that criminalizes the production or distribution of drawings or cartoons showing the sexual abuse of children.

Actual convicted child molester gets 60 days.

The principle of proportionality, an long-precedented interpretation of the 8th Amendment:

Justice Field in O’Neil v. Vermont 148 argued in dissent that in addition to prohibiting punishments deemed barbarous and inhumane the Eighth Amendment also condemned ”all punishments which by their excessive length or severity are greatly disproportionate to the offenses charged.” In Weems v. United States, this view was adopted by the Court in striking down a sentence in the Philippine Islands of 15 years incarceration at hard labor with chains on the ankles, loss of all civil rights, and perpetual surveillance, for the offense of falsifying public documents. The Court compared the sentence with those meted out for other offenses and concluded: ”This contrast shows more than different exercises of legislative judgment. It is greater than that. It condemns the sentence in this case as cruel and unusual. It exhibits a difference between unrestrained power and that which is exercised under the spirit of constitutional limitations formed to establish justice.” Punishments as well as fines, therefore, can be condemned as excessive.