Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutt
the guy is a lowlife for posing girls that young in sexy outfits and poses but the ruling sounds really bad - mainstream entertainment has been sexualizing underage actresses and singers forever - the law should be applied equally to everybody - if this guy is guilty then so are the record companies who create the images of the teenie bopper divas. i assume this judge would say that there is artistic worth to the mainstream stuff but what about the mainstream modeling industry where girls are 15 and modeling half naked?
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tempest
Another stupid ruling in the US that opens the door to more prosecutions. The correct way of dealing with this would be to pass an appropriate law.. but of course that would be too close to common sense to ever be an option.
|
Those two posts about sum it up.
The law needs to be applied equally to everyone. If current laws don't seem to deliver justice, either new ones need to be made or old ones need to be changed.
We all have gut feelings about sites like these, but judges need to follow the laws, not their guts.