Original sentence: It's production is legally defined as a type of child sexual abuse, in all cases except for when the material was produced legally, usually before nation states toughened laws against it.Under the law, children are sexually abused in the production of child pornography when sexual acts are photographed, and according to the US Department of Justice, the effects of the abuse are compounded by the wide distribution of the photographs of the abuse
Edited sentence: It is a type of child sexual abuse; children are sexually abused in the production of child pornography when sexual acts are photographed, and the effects of the abuse are compounded by the wide distribution of the photographs of the abuse