Lurker99 - It's insane that these sick fucks are so blatant about this kind of shit that they get caught like that, and it's scary to think about how many of these fuckers don't get caught.
Our system needs to seriously revamp the punishment side of child porn, child rape, child anything. These fuckers clearly feel the risk is worth it. Maybe longer sentences for possession and life or even death for rapes and molestation would deter some of this shit.
I'm a criminal attorney in my state's Department of Justice. I specialize in criminal appeals--generally speaking, that means most of what I do involves a bad guy getting convicted and then appealing to get a new trial. My job is to argue they should stay in prison--I'm on the prosecution's "side."
The death penalty is unconstitutional for non-death related crimes, so that's out for child sex crimes. Also, I can promise you, we do not need longer sentences (at least in my state) for child sex crimes. Because each act is a separate crime for which you can be separately sentenced to a consecutive term, the longest sentences I've ever seen generally involve child sex crimes. And by that, I mean it's not unusual to see sentences running up into hundreds of years with no chance of parole.
If Fulton's conduct involves multiple acts--e.g., raped this kid that day, made a video, transmitted the video, arranged to traffic another kid several weeks later, made a video of that too, raped the first kid again, etc.--he will very likely die in prison.
There are no doubt things we as a society could do to better identify, investigate, and prosecute child trafficking and sex crimes. I am all for that. That said, chances are longer sentences aren't it.