http://www.justice.gov/usao/mow/news2010/cordry.ple.htm
PRIOR CHILD SEX OFFENDER PLEADS GUILTY TO CHILD 


,
FACES AT LEAST 15 YEARS IN PRISON
September 21, 2010
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Sugar Creek, Mo., man who is a prior child sex offender pleaded guilty in federal court today to attempting to distribute and receive child











over the Internet and to possessing child











.
Martin A. Cordry, 47, of Sugar Creek, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Scott O. Wright to all three charges contained in a March 3, 2010, federal indictment. Cordry remains in federal detention pending his sentencing hearing.
By pleading guilty today, Cordry admitted that he attempted to both download and distribute child











over the Internet through a file-sharing program on his computer. Cordry also admitted that he was in possession of child











when law enforcement officers seized his computer and digital media.
According to court documents, Cordry was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 1994 for the rape and sodomy of a 7-year-old victim...."
more at link
Not certain, at all, whether the "cartoon" images were also found to be illegal, although the PRs certainly mention them. If anyone finds more info on this issue, can you please post. According to this site, they are illegal:
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2451
What Is Child 









?
Under federal law (
18 U.S.C. §2256), child











is defined as any visual depiction, including any photograph, film, video, picture, or computer or computer-generated image or picture, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means, of sexually explicit conduct, where:
~the production of the visual depiction involves the use of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; or
~the visual depiction is a digital image, computer image, or computer-generated image that is, or is indistinguishable from, that of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; or
~the visual depiction has been
created, adapted, or modified to appear that an identifiable minor is engaging in sexually explicit conduct...."
much more at link