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This doesn't seem accurate according to a cursory search. While I was incorrect that no one was prosecuted for it, it seems that charged were eventually dropped

This doesn't seem accurate according to a cursory search. While I was incorrect that no one was prosecuted for it, it seems that charged were eventually dropped after the court ruled that strict liability in this case would violate the first amendment[1] >Our reading of the relevant Supreme Court opinions, particularly Smith v. California, suggests that the first amendment does not permit the imposition of criminal sanctions on the basis of strict liability where doing so would seriously chill protected speech. While Congress may take steps to punish severely those who knowingly subject minors to sexual exploitation, and even those who commit such abuse recklessly or negligently, it may not impose very serious criminal sanctions on those who have diligently investigated the matter and formed a reasonable good-faith belief that they are engaged in activities protected by the first amendment. [1]https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/858/534/446804/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/858...

bsder 5y ago
1996: Producer conviction upheld https://www.upi.com/Archives/1996/01/05/Conviction-upheld-in-Lords-case/6661820818000/ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1996/01/05/Conviction-upheld-in... > Gottesman was found guilty of violating the 1977 Child Sexual Exploitation Act, but appealed the lower court verdict all the way to U. S. Supreme Court, claiming that he should not be held liable for using underage girls if they lied about their age. Yet this is also commented from 2011: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/a-short-history-of-underaged-porn-scandals-6520837 https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/a-short-history-of-undera... > No one, including Lords or her scene partners, ever went to jail over the scandal, but it led to several court cases and tougher laws regulating the adult industry. "Never went to jail" does not exclude "Cut a deal but still wound up with a felony conviction". However, apparently my memory was faulty about someone going to jail. Unfortunately, everything about the case is old enough that it doesn't appear well in search engines. And that's without the fact that everything is going to be drowned out in search engines by being proximate to "traci lords".

bsder 5y ago

1996: Producer conviction upheld https://www.upi.com/Archives/1996/01/05/Conviction-upheld-in-Lords-case/6661820818000/ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1996/01/05/Conviction-upheld-in... > Gottesman was found guilty of violating the 1977 Child Sexual Exploitation Act, but appealed the lower court verdict all the way to U. S. Supreme Court, claiming that he should not be held liable for using underage girls if they lied about their age. Yet this is also commented from 2011: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/a-short-history-of-underaged-porn-scandals-6520837 https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/a-short-history-of-undera... > No one, including Lords or her scene partners, ever went to jail over the scandal, but it led to several court cases and tougher laws regulating the adult industry. "Never went to jail" does not exclude "Cut a deal but still wound up with a felony conviction". However, apparently my memory was faulty about someone going to jail. Unfortunately, everything about the case is old enough that it doesn't appear well in search engines. And that's without the fact that everything is going to be drowned out in search engines by being proximate to "traci lords".