Interesting Article...
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silversolitaireThis just came in on FFN-Slashers-Unite:
"JOURNAL WRITINGS BRING 10-YEAR PRISON TERM MAN ON PROBATION
MADE UP STORY ABOUT MOLESTING AND TORTURING CHILDREN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A man who wrote in his journal about sexually abusing and torturing children
has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, even though the stories were
fictitious.
A civil rights lawyer said he was surprised by the sentence Brian Dalton
received Tuesday for his private writings.
"What you're saying is somebody can't, in essence, confess their fantasy
into a personal journal for fear they have socially unacceptable fantasies,
then ultimately they end up getting prosecuted," said Benson Wolman, a
former director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Ohio.
Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien called the case a "breakthrough" in
the battle against child pornography.
Dalton, 22, of Columbus, was charged with pandering obscenity involving a
minor after his probation officer found the journal during a routine search
of his home. He was on probation from a 1998 pandering conviction involving
pornographic photographs of children.
The 14-page journal contains the names and ages - 10 and 11 - of three
children it said were placed in a cage in a basement. It details how the
children were sexually molested and tortured.
Police at first were concerned the stories were real, prosecutors said.
However, Dalton said the stories were fictitious, and there was no evidence
to the contrary, said Christian Domis, an assistant county prosecutor.
Still, Dalton was guilty of pandering obscenity because he "did create,
reproduce or publish any obscene material that has a minor as one of its
participants or portrayed observers," the indictment said.
"Even without passing it on to anyone else, he committed a felony," Domis
said.
Dalton said he never intended anyone else to read the journal.
Dalton pleaded guilty, and prosecutors dropped a second pandering charge."
My two cents:
I agree, this is disturbing. BUT. The way I understood it this man already has a history of molesting children for real. In other words, his journal showed that he wasn't at all over his pedophile (and possibly violent) desires. So, if you ask me they were only looking for a reason to lock him away (kinda). Plus, he pleaded guilty himself to avoid further charges. I'm willing to believe that he might have gotten off the hook, if he had fought.
But still, it's wrong. This was a private journal, dammit! *growls*
However, I don't think that you'll get into trouble now for writing stories involving minors in sexual situations. If that was so, nifty.org would have been taken down already months ago. IMO, there's a lot more about it than just that.
"JOURNAL WRITINGS BRING 10-YEAR PRISON TERM MAN ON PROBATION
MADE UP STORY ABOUT MOLESTING AND TORTURING CHILDREN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A man who wrote in his journal about sexually abusing and torturing children
has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, even though the stories were
fictitious.
A civil rights lawyer said he was surprised by the sentence Brian Dalton
received Tuesday for his private writings.
"What you're saying is somebody can't, in essence, confess their fantasy
into a personal journal for fear they have socially unacceptable fantasies,
then ultimately they end up getting prosecuted," said Benson Wolman, a
former director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Ohio.
Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien called the case a "breakthrough" in
the battle against child pornography.
Dalton, 22, of Columbus, was charged with pandering obscenity involving a
minor after his probation officer found the journal during a routine search
of his home. He was on probation from a 1998 pandering conviction involving
pornographic photographs of children.
The 14-page journal contains the names and ages - 10 and 11 - of three
children it said were placed in a cage in a basement. It details how the
children were sexually molested and tortured.
Police at first were concerned the stories were real, prosecutors said.
However, Dalton said the stories were fictitious, and there was no evidence
to the contrary, said Christian Domis, an assistant county prosecutor.
Still, Dalton was guilty of pandering obscenity because he "did create,
reproduce or publish any obscene material that has a minor as one of its
participants or portrayed observers," the indictment said.
"Even without passing it on to anyone else, he committed a felony," Domis
said.
Dalton said he never intended anyone else to read the journal.
Dalton pleaded guilty, and prosecutors dropped a second pandering charge."
My two cents:
I agree, this is disturbing. BUT. The way I understood it this man already has a history of molesting children for real. In other words, his journal showed that he wasn't at all over his pedophile (and possibly violent) desires. So, if you ask me they were only looking for a reason to lock him away (kinda). Plus, he pleaded guilty himself to avoid further charges. I'm willing to believe that he might have gotten off the hook, if he had fought.
But still, it's wrong. This was a private journal, dammit! *growls*
However, I don't think that you'll get into trouble now for writing stories involving minors in sexual situations. If that was so, nifty.org would have been taken down already months ago. IMO, there's a lot more about it than just that.
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Saddning :-(
Date: 2001-07-07 09:14 pm (UTC)People that do it for real (rape, children, snuff ect..) should be just killed....real slow!
I have read some great erotic stories and read a few that I had to stop because it was no way erotic.....more sickeninig. here is an example of a page with both....but be careful.
http://www.andyseroticstories.com/story%20frames/total%202.htm