M.H and J.H. v. Omegle.com, LLC

Tamps, Florida personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a violation of 18 U.S. 2255.



When C.H. was eleven years old, a stranger connected with her through Omegle.com, an online social media platform that places people in video chatrooms. The stranger then tricked and threat-

ened C.H. into making child pornography. Unfortunately, this problem is not unique to Omegle.com. Our precedents reflect that child predators use many other online platforms to find and exploit their victims. See, e.g., United States v. Woodson, 30 F.4th 1295, 1307 (11th Cir. 2022) (affirming the conviction and sentence of a criminal

who used social media to identify and abuse hundreds of girls).



Through her parents, C.H. sued Omegle.com LLC. She alleged that Omegle.com violated 18 U.S.C. § 2255, known as "Ma-

sha's Law,” by knowingly possessing child pornography. She also sued Omegle.com for violating the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, which forbids knowingly benefitting from participation in a sex trafficking venture. See 18 U.S.C. §§ 1591, 1595. The district court dismissed her claims under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. That section provides that for purposes of civil liability, "[n]o provider . . . of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by” a user. 47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(1)).

Affirmed