ED KELLY <edkelly@INS.INFONET.NET> writes:
There is hoopla over the convictions of those who ran the Amateur Action BBS. The actual charges involve stuff that sounded like it was intended to be distributed as child pornography. The indictment described the offensive material being destributed as follows in each count:
I think you have your wires crossed here. There was no claim made that the models were underage in any of the erotica you cite. The material was deemed to be obscene because it depicted things such as incest, bestiality, foreign object insertion, piercing, and other non-mainstream sexual themes. Everyone was over 18 in all the pictures you mention, and the only material on the BBS which depicted children was legal nudist material scanned from reputable sources. Since the original complaint from the "outraged citizen" which prompted the investigation and subsequent entrapment was about nudist GIFs, which were perfectly legal, one might argue that the obscenity charges were just an indirect way to nail AA for daring to have nude kid pix available on their BBS. Certainly there are plenty of places in Tennesee where "specialty" erotica can be purchased which are not being prosecuted with similar zeal. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ mpd@netcom.com $ via Finger. $