[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 28 (Thursday, March 10, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H1270]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      CHILD MODELING WEB SITE BAN

  (Mr. FOLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Speaker, I want to bring to your attention an 
underground industry preying on our children, and that is exploitive 
child modeling Web sites. These Web sites contain images of young girls 
as young as 4 years of age wearing only their underwear, tiny bathing 
suits or other suggestive clothing, posing in sexually provocative 
ways. In most cases, these Web sites are nothing more than child 
pornography hiding under the guise of child modeling. These Web sites 
do not sell products, they do not sell services, and they serve our 
young people on a platter for America's most depraved. These Web sites 
are nothing more than a fix for pedophiles.
  Let us be clear. These are not Web sites used for the modeling 
industry. No child has been hired as a bona fide model. They are only 
used to exploit these children.

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  In fact, these web sites are nothing more than gateways to child and 
adult pornography.
  I have recently introduced legislation that would ban these sites 
once and for all, the Child Modeling Exploitation Act. This bill will 
not harm legitimate modeling nor families from being able to post 
photos of their families on the Internet, but the legislation has been 
carefully crafted to prevent exploiters from being able to use our 
children as sexual objects for money.

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