An Ipswitch man has admitted downloading graphic cartoon porn images featuring child characters from The Simpsons and The Powerpuff Girls TV shows.
The 28-year-old is now a registered sex offender and will have to report to police after pleading guilty in Ipswich District Court to having the bizarre images on his computer.
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Milner told police he would co-operate but did not want to give them his computer.But an hour-and-a-half later he phoned police and said they could now have his computer.
Officers discovered the computer 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.
The images depicted figures from The Simpsons, The Powerpuff Girls and The Incredibles in sexually explicit positions.
Good grief. Now you can be charged with ‘child exploitation material’ where no child was exploited. I’m all for punishing those who exploit children, especially producers of child pornography, and this creepy guy seems to be in the red zone, but this sets a dangerous precedent IMHO. Thoughts?
If you are a pervert it would behoove you to learn basic computer forensics and use encryption. Duh. This guy’s crime was ignorance.
If you are a pervert it would behoove you to learn to not look at this kind of material on the Internet or on his computer at all. Duh. This guy’s crime was ignorance.
Bart Simpson is 23, so he is of age anyway.
Thought crime next?
Creepy yes, harmful no. The point of child pornography laws is to prevent children from being hurt and/or abused. This guy was not hurting anyone.
What a doofus. Next time, use Eraser.
With that line of thought satire is clearly illegal. I guess that means this place and everyone here is clearly guilty of thought crimes.
IMNHO that’s just plain stupid, fan art of that kind has been around since the internet began. After all, there’s something called rule 34.
Case in point? This pic has been floating since 1998. Which btw is very NSFW.
http://40ozmaltliquor.com/images/logos/looney.jpg
Nanny State….
Unless you’re a Muslim, in which case the punishment isn’t severe enough….
Idiots….
So, what harm did that guy cause, other than inconveniencing a few electrons?
I hope dragons having sex with cars isn’t illegal.
“Crown Prosecutor Suzanne Cantatore said the sentence needed to be harsh as it was Milner’s second conviction for having child exploitation material.
The Leichhardt resident was convicted of possessing child exploitation material in 2003 after 59 sexual images of actual youngsters were found on his computer.”
I take it for some folks here they would be completely ok with photo-quality sketches and animation of child sex? I doubt the same for your neighbors.
RBG
I’m not sure how old Lisa was when the series started 21 years ago but she must be above the age of consent by now!
Why does it take a year to check a hard drive? Don’t they have a geek squad? Pro’lly had to send it to Scotland Yard and they’re still busy looking for that guy in Whitechapel.
What about my sticky note porn? I can’t verify the age of my stick figures.
Marge Simpson is really hot:
There’s a whole collection of Japanese comics that I recommend you stay away from, just about anything labeled Hentai or Ecchi. In fact I think I’ll have to change my laptop wallpaper before I travel again. I mean it’s not anything outwardly sexual but where’s the limit? I didn’t know a naked cross between a young woman and a woodland creature drawn by a japanese artist was criminal, but who knows – furry breasts are clearly visible. What’s the limit to fantasy? Near as I can tell if we all were judged by the content of our fantasies we’d all be in jail.
#14 – Thanks for checking them out for us!
/rolls eyes
Did Patrick Norton not already explain the preferred method of erasing images on a computer? Sledgehammer to the hard drive does it every time!
I tried to Google it but I lost my patience.
Anyone remember this?
During the Clinton-era a child pornography law was passed but it was over-ruled by the Supreme Court because it over-reached by banning simulated child exploitation.
I think the S.C. ruling even mentioned the film “American Beauty” because the actress played an minor child.
Anyone else here have better memory than me?
Moral panic.
People like to be able to say they are better then some one else, or able to point to some one and say they are bad.
But in this case i wish people would get a life.
There are SO much in the real world that’s need to be dealt with.
(Like actual child molesters)
But this is just a waste of time for people whit too much time on their hand, and too little brain in their heads.
For god sakes, do something useful if you got the time and inclination.
Don’t try to pat yourselves on your back trying to say you do something worth while with this.
It is just pathetic if you do.
At #10
I would have more understanding of the conviction if it where.
But it was not so your reasoning fails.
And images such as you describes still hurts no one.
If no one was hurt, or leads to be hurt, so no one should cry foul for it.
Creepy or not, we do not want to know what you do with all those shoes at night, behind closed doors.
But you should not go to jail or get on a list for sexing up shoes.
Stupid Flanders!