On Wed, 14 May 2008 18:42:22 -0400, Mike Ross
wrote:
>On Wed, 14 May 2008 22:47:14 +0100, Dissenter wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 14 May 2008 16:47:34 -0400, Mike Ross
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 14 May 2008 18:49:47 +0100, Dissenter wrote:
>>
>>>>Your 'pesky First Amendment' didn't stop them from banning child ..
>>>>All the same arguments will be brought out to stop 'violent .'.
>>>
>>>A matter of different tests. The only reason child . was able to be banned is
>>>that it served a legitimate state interest,
>>
>>What 'state interest'?
>
>The protection of children.
Yeah right. The cheeldruunnn. As if 'the state' really cares.
>>>and involved photos of activity that
>>>would under every conceivable circumstance be criminal
>>
>>So what? Photographs of criminal acts are reproduced daily on the
>>media.
>
>Aye, but with child . there's always the possibility - the liklihood, in some
>cases - that the only reason the assaults took place was to produce the
>photographs.
Same applies to many crimes, from 'happy slapping' to terrorism.
>>> - it's impossible to say
>>>of child . 'it was only acting - there was no *real* penetration', for
>>>instance.
>>
>>Plenty of people have been prosecuted for possessing '. posing'
>>type pictures, even of clothed children.
>
>In the USA? I'm honestly not sure about that. In any case, would you want your
>children encouraged to 'pose .ally'?
How about this recent case:
Woman Charged With Child . After Photos Developed
Police Say Photos Show Child Woman Was Caring For
WMUR, New Hampshire, USA: 14 May 2008
http://www.wmur.com/news/16266160/detail.html
A woman was arrested after photos of a child apparently posing .
were developed at a Manchester photo shop.
Gregoria Tzoy-Morente, 44, was charged with eight counts of child
.ography after a clerk at Walgreens developed photos on a memory
card she brought in. Police said eight of the pictures looked
suspicious and showed a 4-year-old boy posing ..
Through an interpreter, Tzoy-Morente, a Guatemalan native, said she
didn't think she did anything wrong.
"I didn't do it as a bad thing," she said. "I was doing it as a game.
He was taking a bath, and when he took his clothes off, I took
pictures."
Police described the photos as graphic and lewd.
"Among the photos of various family members was a young boy posing
. in .ually suggestive positions," Sgt. Maureen Tessier said.
According to Walgreens policy, the store processes such pictures and
returns them to the individual who brought them in, but copies are
also made and provided to police.
The 4-year-old's father said he saw the pictures. He said that while
he thinks Tzoy-Morente made a bad decision, he doesn't believe she
meant any harm. He also disputed that the photos were explicit.
Police said Tzoy-Morente lives with the boy's father and often takes
care of the child, but this was the first time she did it alone. The
boy is only at their house on weekends.
"We were concerned and started an investigation and found he was safe
and unharmed in his mother's home," Tessier said.
Tzoy-Morente was held on $40,000 bail, and she was ordered to not have
any contact with the boy or anyone under 18 years old. |