Creepy Arts and Crafts: Florida Court Rules That Pasting Kids’ Faces Into Pornographic Images is Legal
by A Sunday school teacher in Lakeland, Florida, was arrested and convicted in 2009 for possession of child pornography. The court has now overturned his conviction since "that no child engaged in the sexual conduct."
By Joss Parker
Here’s one for the legal loophole record books: a Sunday school teacher, Danny Parker of Lakeland, Florida, was arrested and convicted in 2009 for possession of child pornography.
Now, in 2011, it appears he will walk free.
As reported by The Miami New Times, Parker was not technically guilty of possession or trafficking in child pornography, since none of the photographed children were subject to actual sexual abuse. Confused?
Parker’s roundabout technique to create legal kiddie porn involved taking pictures of young girls at the Lakeland Acres Baptist Church and at a youth camp at Lake Wales Care Center (where he was a volunteer), cutting out their faces, and crudely pasting them atop the faces of adults in pornographic photos – thus creating an apparently legal kiddie/adult pornography hybrid collage.
The court concluded that “the crudely constructed depictions, fortunately, leave no doubt that no child engaged in the sexual conduct.”
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