Repeat Offender’s Child Sexual Abuse Material Convictions Upheld

A registered sex offender convicted of transportation, receipt, and possession of child “pornography” lost his bid to undo the convictions after a federal appeals court said evidence found by messaging application Kik was properly admitted.

Kik wasn’t acting as an agent or instrument of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children when it reviewed Wesley Guard’s accounts for child sex abuse material, so his motion ...