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>depending on whether any could be viewed as "sexual" Society is chock full of prosecutors and citizens like the micro-brained David Cook who view almost anyth
by AgileCyborg 16y ago
>depending on whether any could be viewed as "sexual"
Society is chock full of prosecutors and citizens like the micro-brained David Cook who view almost anything 'natural' involving a youngster as 'sexual'.
http://reason.com/blog/2009/05/04/grandma-arrested-for-child-por http://reason.com/blog/2009/05/04/grandma-arrested-for-child...
The subjectivity of this topic lends itself to egregious abuse if minds have been soaked in morality acid.
- ErrantX 16y agoWell it's hard to say in such situations without personal involvement in the case but.... certainly that's something to investigate. From the description of the images they are concerning enough to be questioned (why have you taken images of your granddaughter posed in this way). As you say it is subjective. The main problem is: - people plying their own agenda trying to prosecute people for moral or other ambiguous reasons - inexpert officers doing an initial investigation/arrest; which leads to full investigations by experts into... ...nothing The latter is always going to happen - and luckily we've got quite good at heading it off early (at least here anyway). The former is more of a problem - because if they are big enough (like this prosecutor it seems) to push it to court you can often get a jury onside by default :( "It kind of boils down to a gut feeling. If it feels wrong, it probably is." This is correct though; clearly his marker is a lot lower because my "gut" [based on a brief review] on that specific case is "probably ok". You do get a gut feeling about someone's intentions though (and the terrible thing is the number of times you just cannot, in honesty, prove it).