CRIM CD-CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961 in relation to child pornography. Provides that a person is guilty of a Class X felony with a term of imprisonment of not less than 9 years and not more than 40 years if the person knowingly films, videotapes, photographs, or otherwise depicts or portrays by means of any similar visual medium or reproduction or depicts by computer any child whom he or she knows or reasonably should know to be under the age of 18 or any severely or profoundly mentally retarded person where such child or severely or profoundly mentally retarded person is the victim of an act of criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, criminal sexual abuse, or aggravated criminal sexual abuse or knowingly possesses such film, videotape, photograph, or other depiction by computer.