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CHILD PORNOGRAPHY Another class of registrants who would not be included in the limited version of the ordinance is those who must register after a conviction for possessing child pornography. Shockingly, a lot of the child pornography being circulated today depicts very young children, sometimes even babies, engaged in various sex acts with inanimate and live objects, sometimes with other children and adult subjects. Some child pornography includes depictions of forcible encounters. Although child pornography shows the result of a violation of children, it would not technically be a violation with a child victim as is written in ordinances limiting the ban against offenders, with convictions involving child victims. There is no reason why any adult would possess child pornography except those who have abnormal sexual desire towards children. In the case of Alejandro Avila, the man who abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered 5-year- old Samantha Runnion in 2002, Avila spent days prior to committing his heinous act against the little girl he had never met looking at child pornography of a girl about the same age as Samantha and fantasizing about molesting children_ As mentioned above, an Orange County mother was at a park enjoying the playground with her children. She saw a man holding a video camera near her children. She recognized the man from the Megan's Law website. She called the Orange County Sheriff to report the incident. The deputy sheriff could not arrest the sex offender because he was not on probation or parole. A proposed ordinance limiting the ban to offenders with child victims would not cover this defendant because his registration was based on a possession of child pornography conviction. ANALYSIS OF SANTA ANA SEX OFFENDERS REGISTERED ON MEGAN'S LAW WEBSITE Available public records show 235 registered sex offenders residing in the City of Santa Ana for sex crimes against children and adults, possession of child pornography, and/or indecent exposure (flashing). In addition to the 235 publicly-listed offenders, law enforcement is aware of additional registered sex offenders who reside in the City. A review of public information listed on the Megan's Law website reveals the following: Sex Crimes Against Children There are 196 sex offenders residing in Santa Ana who committed sex crimes against children. A_ Lewd acts against victims under the age of 14 Of the 196, there are '125 individuals who were required to register because of felony convictions under Penal Code 288(a) for lewd acts upon a child under the age of 14. Three of the i25 also have misdemeanor child annoyance convictions. Another three of the 125 also have convictions for flashing or indecent exposure. One of 125 committed incest, and another sexually penetrated his victim with a foreign object. Of the 125, three also contacted their minor victims for the purpose of arranging a sexual encounter and went to the arranged meeting to commit a sexual offense; two possessed child pornography; and two sent pornographic material to seduce their child victims. 1. Age Difference of at least 1 O years, and lewd acts with a victim under 14 There was an age difference of at least 10 years between the sex offender and the child victim in seven of the 125 cases of lewd acts against a child under the age of 14. Four of the seven were convicted of additional crimes: One is a female offender with an additional conviction for oral copulation with a minor. Another sex offender was convicted for sexually penetrating his victim with a foreign object, child molestation, and oral copulation with a minor. A third orally copulated with his victim. The fourth 12 50A-28