Valentine highlighted the passage last week of SB183, which expands the law to state that a person who views child pornography can be prosecuted for sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony.

Just last Wednesday, members of the Utah ICAC task force arrested a 34-year-old man and a 43-year-old man for downloading and viewing child pornography. On Thursday a 31-year-old child pornography suspect being investigated by ICAC turned himself into the Salt Lake County Jail.

Utah ICAC was also recognized as having a 100 percent conviction rate and home to agent Rhett McQuiston, who has arrested more perpetrators than any other officer in the country.

Speaking for the Surviving Parents Coalition, Ed Smart said in a presidential campaign where the top issues are war and the economy, there needs to be focus on the fact that thousands of children in the U.S. are being tortured and raped. Smart's daughter, Elizabeth Smart, was kidnapped and sexually assaulted.

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