Child pornography is a problem that is being faced by all the nations all over the world. Child pornography is playing a major role in regard to violence against children. With the advancing technology the problem of child pornography is intensifying and now many people are able to download child pornography material. Various nations have put in place laws that are employed in dealing with this problem. However, these countries are facing several challenges in prosecuting those people who engage in child pornography. More so, there exist no uniform international laws that can be used by the nations all over the world to curb this problem on an equal level. There is need for each and every nation to put in place harsh laws to deal with this problem. Downloading child pornography is a grave offense that has grave consequences. A person found guilty of committing this offense can end up serving sentence in prison that go even up twenty years. Several people all over the world have been reported to go to prison to serve long sentences for downloading child pornography. Introduction Child pornography has been a global problem. The international community has identified that the children are facing a danger that is being posed by those people who are producing, showing, distributing, and making use of child pornography. There is a danger that children can easily derive negative effects stemming from exploitation of pornography. According to Healy (2004), UNCRC has made the identification of child pornography as an action of violence against children and there is need for all countries to intervene in the exploitation of the children that is being carried by using the pornographic materials. Even if several efforts have been carried out by various countries to curb this problem, the issue of child pornography still stands to be a major issue. There are several challenges that are encountered in the course of carrying studies on the international child pornography. Among these challenges is the absence of a similar definition of what child pornography is all about. More so, another challenge that is being encountered is that there is no data that concerns child pornography production as well as data on the distribution of it in various countries, and especially in countries found in Africa and those in Latin America. Another challenge is that the child pornography patterns in the world keep on changing. More so, another major challenge is the quickly growing global access to the less costly technology that is increasing. This has carried out the transformation of child pornography in to a highly developed cottage industry. Courts as well as officials responsible of enforcing the law are encountering major hardships in carrying out their duties for the reason that there is the possibility of setting up pornography that can be generated by the computer and also the possibility of carrying out alterations of the images using the computer. Child Pornography Defined According to the National Center for missing and Exploited Children (2010), basing on the federal law, the definition for child pornography is, any visual depiction, including any photograph, video, picture, or computer, or computer generated image or picture, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or any other means, of sexually