title: [Problems associated with age estimation of underage persons who appear in child pornography materials].
abstract: Among opinions issued by the Forensic Medicine Department, Medical Science University in Poznan, in the last six years, there are opinions concerning age estimation in child pornography materials. The issue subject to research is indicating persons under the age of 15 years in pornographic materials, since possession of pornographic materials featuring underage persons is considered a crime and is subject to article 202 of the Penal Code. The estimation of the age of teenagers based on secondary and tertiary sexual characteristics is increasingly more difficult and the available data in professional literature regarding the standard time of development differ among various authors of such studies. In the report, an attempt has been made at determining the agreement regarding different characteristics in the data included in the Tanner's scale, which has been modified to accommodate the research done on persons registered by electronic means. The modified scale, which up to now has been used in research of registered subjects in classified public prosecutors' materials, has been employed in children seen in a pediatric outpatient department. The goal has been a comparison of the outcome of the research to prove its usefulness so that in the future, the modified scale could be used as a research tool in estimation of age of persons appearing in pornography materials.
  
  
  METHODS
  medical forms of 205 children seen in a pediatric outpatient department, based on the scale created by the present authors us and later processed using Excel.
authors.affiliation: Z Katedry i Zakładu Medycyny Sadowej Uniwersytetu Medycznego w Poznaniu. makoncia@poczta.onet.pl
authors.forename: Marzena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Łabecka
authors.forename: Dorota
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lorkiewicz-Muszyńska
authors.forename: Grazyna
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jarzabek-Bielecka
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D004882:Erotica; D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011044:Poland; D012938:Social Perception