Way back when this guy James Grady was arrested and charged with CP - for shooting and running underage teen NN sites - same type of stuff you see on the popular NN paysites today except the models were < 18 - the government lost the case against him because well there's nothing really illegal about shooting a 16 year old in bikinis and lingerie - pretty much everybody agrees that these sites are 'wrong', but they aren't illegal. Grady became Jimmy Stephens and launched a multi model underage NN site called TrueTeenBabes in Tampa -he's posted here occassionally.
Well now the state of Florida has passed a law against what he does - the law is probably unconstitutional but who is gonna fight for their right in a higher court for their right to sell sexy images of 16 year olds to middle age men?
http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2008/7/2/362036.html
Website featuring girls in lingerie at heart of new law
PINELLAS COUNTY Bay area (Bay News 9) -- A website run locally that features underage girls from 13 to 17 years old in lingerie and g-strings is at the heart of a new law signed by Gov. Charlie Crist Wednesday.
House Bill 559 now makes it a third degree felony "for teen modeling agencies that distribute on the internet pictures of minors in provocative circumstances."
The website, trueteenbabes.com, calls the pictures glamour photographs but lawmakers say the shots are borderline pornography.
Senator Mike Fasano (Fl- R) helped create the law.
According to the website, they have a studio and take pictures of the teens in Clearwater.
Parents have to sign off on it and they pay the girls a $100 an hour.
"We have an obligation to protect those children if their parents aren't going to," Fasano said.
Fasano said the state attorney's office looked at charging the photographer. They found he wasn't violating any current law and that's why Fasano sponsored the bill.
"Taking pictures of a 13-year-old girl in a bathing suit or less than a bathing suit and broadcasting that picture on a website where it's downloaded and purchased by sick pedophiles then I believe that is against our community standards," Fasano said.
"And the person taking that picture should be prosecuted to the fullest. And I believe it will hold up in federal court."
Fasano said he's learned because of his new law the True Teen Babes' photographer said he's now going to leave the state of Florida.
Bay News 9 tried contacting the photographer but he did not return our emails or calls.
Stetson constitutional law professor Michael Allen said he doesn't think the new law will stand up in federal court because in his opinion it infringes on the First Amendment right to freedom of expression.
"It would be extraordinary unlikely that 'True Teen Babes' would be found obscene in a court of law," Allen said. "The law sweeps too broadly and is too vague."
Fasano respectfully disagreed saying he feels it violates community obscenity standards.
"True Teen Babes - that was the one that was brought to our attention," Fasano said.
Well now the state of Florida has passed a law against what he does - the law is probably unconstitutional but who is gonna fight for their right in a higher court for their right to sell sexy images of 16 year olds to middle age men?
http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2008/7/2/362036.html
Website featuring girls in lingerie at heart of new law
PINELLAS COUNTY Bay area (Bay News 9) -- A website run locally that features underage girls from 13 to 17 years old in lingerie and g-strings is at the heart of a new law signed by Gov. Charlie Crist Wednesday.
House Bill 559 now makes it a third degree felony "for teen modeling agencies that distribute on the internet pictures of minors in provocative circumstances."
The website, trueteenbabes.com, calls the pictures glamour photographs but lawmakers say the shots are borderline pornography.
Senator Mike Fasano (Fl- R) helped create the law.
According to the website, they have a studio and take pictures of the teens in Clearwater.
Parents have to sign off on it and they pay the girls a $100 an hour.
"We have an obligation to protect those children if their parents aren't going to," Fasano said.
Fasano said the state attorney's office looked at charging the photographer. They found he wasn't violating any current law and that's why Fasano sponsored the bill.
"Taking pictures of a 13-year-old girl in a bathing suit or less than a bathing suit and broadcasting that picture on a website where it's downloaded and purchased by sick pedophiles then I believe that is against our community standards," Fasano said.
"And the person taking that picture should be prosecuted to the fullest. And I believe it will hold up in federal court."
Fasano said he's learned because of his new law the True Teen Babes' photographer said he's now going to leave the state of Florida.
Bay News 9 tried contacting the photographer but he did not return our emails or calls.
Stetson constitutional law professor Michael Allen said he doesn't think the new law will stand up in federal court because in his opinion it infringes on the First Amendment right to freedom of expression.
"It would be extraordinary unlikely that 'True Teen Babes' would be found obscene in a court of law," Allen said. "The law sweeps too broadly and is too vague."
Fasano respectfully disagreed saying he feels it violates community obscenity standards.
"True Teen Babes - that was the one that was brought to our attention," Fasano said.
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