>They did this, because with a felony it is not possible to stop prosecution for "possession of child porn" when common sense would suggest it
This is obviously a nonsensical justification. The law should be written in a way, which excludes these cases from prosecution to begin with.
It's completely insane to reduce a sentence for a pretty bad crime just because you can't be bothered to formulate the law properly. And even if you were to do that it still proves that you aren't particularly concerned over that crime.
If the politicians can't write a law which distinguishes a minor sending pictures of him/her to another minors, from organized CSAM distribution, then what can they do. It's either malice or enormous incompetency.
A while ago they made a change to an existing law to increase the minimum sentence from 6 months to 1 year, probably mostly for reasons of political posturing rather than any deep analysis. They were warned it would have absurd consequences, but did it anyway.
Now it was changed back to how it was before, because of exactly what was predicted.
It's doesn't reflect well on the German government, but it also doesn't deserve the amount of histronics it generated.
This is obviously a nonsensical justification. The law should be written in a way, which excludes these cases from prosecution to begin with.
It's completely insane to reduce a sentence for a pretty bad crime just because you can't be bothered to formulate the law properly. And even if you were to do that it still proves that you aren't particularly concerned over that crime.
If the politicians can't write a law which distinguishes a minor sending pictures of him/her to another minors, from organized CSAM distribution, then what can they do. It's either malice or enormous incompetency.