Jakub Śpiewak is an educator and sociologist. He began his professional career as a journalist (e.g., The Warsaw Voice). Later he run his own PR and advertising agency, and worked as a music manager and university lecturer, teaching crisis management.

In 2002 he established the Kidprotect.pl Foundation, the first Polish NGO specializing in safe Internet use, combating child pornography and paedophilia, and supporting adults who were sexually abused as children. He is Vice President of the “Children Under Protection” Agreement, a member of the Team for Combating Children’s Discrimination in Mass Media at the Office of the Prime Minister, and a grant holder and member of Ashoka, an international association of social innovators; Ashoka’s grants are often called “the social Nobel Prize”.

Privately, he loves music and novels by W.E.B. Griffin.

ABSTRACT

Criminal offences against sexual freedom and morals, committed to the detriment of minor persons, include: sexual intercourse and other forms of sexual activity with a person under 15, rape, abuse of the relationship of dependence, incest, facilitating and profiting from prostitution performed by a minor person, as well as acts associated with production, recording, importing, sharing, public display, distribution, possession and storage of pornographic materials with the participation of minor persons, especially persons under 15. Special attention should be devoted to the criminal offences referred to in articles 200 and 202 of the Polish Penal Code, and a new type of a prohibited act (to be defined in the proposed article 202a), i.e., establishing contact with a minor person (grooming) with the goal of raping the minor, having sexual intercourse with a minor under 15, or producing pornographic materials with his/her participation.

In many such cases the opinion of an expert witness – a sexologist, psychologist or computer forensics specialist – is the key evidence. Therefore, effective cooperation between law enforcement bodies and experts is essential. Generally, cooperation in the field of computer forensics seems the most problematic, because computer forensics is a relatively new discipline and law enforcement/justice agencies do not have enough experience in using such opinions.

Jakub Śpiewak’s presentation will introduce the audience into the field of cooperating with computer forensics experts.