An Ipswich man has only narrowly avoided jail for downloading graphic cartoon porn images featuring child characters from The Simpsons and The Powerpuff Girls television shows.This is crazy. First, these were not pictures. No child was exploited. They were just humorous cartoons.
The 28-year-old former security guard was handed a 12-month suspended prison sentence and is now a registered sex offender after pleading guilty in Ipswich District Court to having the bizarre images on his computer.
Police went to Kurt James Milner’s Leichhardt home on January 24, 2008 after receiving an anonymous tip-off about the disturbing material.
Officers took his home computer, which would no longer turn on, but a year later police forensic experts recovered 64 images of cartoon child exploitation material in the machine’s recycle bin.
Second, the cops spent a year searching his home computer based on an anonymous tip? Do you really want a society where people are jailed for home viewing of cartoons based on anonymous tips?
1 comment:
'Disturbing material'?? It was cartoon for for Pete's sake? Where was the victim? Who was harmed?
Now that this guys is on the registry (which is, in itself, ineffective) we're going to waste money and valuable police resources to keep an eye on this guy?? Why? No studies have ever proven a correlation between watching real porn and acting out in real life.
What a ridiculous society we live in these days!
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