You're right to mention that. It's the principle of consumption. It's the law of supply and demand. If there is consumption, there is definitely production. We see it in all walks of life, both in criminal circles and in legal businesses.
There are minimum sentences for child pornography. I think that judges also have a lot of leeway in these situations. We see sentences being imposed based on the crime committed and the evidence from the police investigation.
What we often see in our searches is a trivialization of these images by both the families and the suspects, in the sense that they will claim that they did not touch a child. Why are they being arrested when, in their opinion, it is just an image? Why would they go to jail, why would they go before a judge, and why would they have a criminal record?
I think that's what we really need to work on. We have to work to change the mentality of the accused and the families. We often see families protecting the arrested person by claiming that they have not abused anyone. Consuming that image, however, is feeding the person who produces it. For there to be a consumer, there has to be a producer.