Former Teacher Leads Guilty to Downloading "Simpsons" Porn

[Spurminator]

http://www.katu.com/news/weird/104900009.html

BOISE, Idaho - A former middle school teacher in Meridian has pleaded guilty to possession of visual representations of child sex abuse.

The U.S. Attorney's office said Steven Kutzner, 33, had downloaded more than 70 animated cartoon pornographic images on his computer. Many of them depicted child characters from The Simpsons.

Kutzner was a former middle school teacher at Lake Hazel Middle School in Meridian. He resigned immediately after the search warrant was served at his home.

Kutzner will be sentenced Jan. 5, 2011. He faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000.

[Spurminator]

Okay, it's a little ed up to have pornographic pictures of Lisa Simpson, but criminal? Discuss.

[DMX7]

Who the would even make that?

[Winehole23]

Viewing the porn was questionable judgment for a teacher, downloading it, abysmally moronic.

I'm none too sure about the legalities, so I'll cede to anyone who actually knows something about this. Sounds to me like the dude got caught with kiddie porn. The law's not ambiguous about that, is it?

[Spurminator]

An Australian court ruling found that owning depictions of children (specifically Simpsons... wtf is with Simpsons porn??) in pornography is as illegal as owning actual child pornography. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7770781.stm Not sure there are any US cases regarding it...

[jack sommerset]

There has to be more to this.

[Oh, Gee!!]

But in calendar years Lisa Simpson must be pushing 30 by now. Even Maggie would be old enough to buy beer if Matt Groening would let them age accurately.

[FromWayDowntown]

Prosecuting someone for looking at pornographic images of fictional characters seems a bit of a stretch of law and policy.

By that standard, I'm not sure how those of us who've read Lolita can avoid prosecution.

[Trainwreck2100]

i would have said there's no way to prove what age that cartoon represented, as it's na damn cartoon

[MiamiHeat]

Uh.... isn't there a scene in the Simpsons Movie where Bart Simpson is skateboarding and they focus on his penis?


so I guess every person affiliated with creating the Simpsons movie, every person who watched it in the theaters, the theaters for showing the movie, anyone who owns the DVD at home..

can be arrested for child pornography.

Get the out of here.

[fraga]

Uh.... isn't there a scene in the Simpsons Movie where Bart Simpson is skateboarding and they focus on his penis?


so I guess every person affiliated with creating the Simpsons movie, every person who watched it in the theaters, the theaters for showing the movie, anyone who owns the DVD at home..

can be arrested for child pornography.

Get the out of here.

Mahahahaha...oh yeah...they do show that...we're all going to jail....FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU ..

[jack sommerset]

[ElNono]

[Fabbs]

Uh.... isn't there a scene in the Simpsons Movie where Bart Simpson is skateboarding and they focus on his penis?

Thru his clothes vs the porn Simpsons which shows him (i assume) naked in who knows how many shots.

What a lame comparison.

[greyforest]

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[Winehole23]

Prosecuting someone for looking at pornographic images of fictional characters seems a bit of a stretch of law and policy.

By that standard, I'm not sure how those of us who've read Lolita can avoid prosecution.

He downloaded the images; he selected them for recording.

Doesn't that make a difference? In essence, he intended to own and did in fact own, kiddie porn.

He got caught with it anyway.

[Winehole23]

(i'm not doing the research on this. not link one.)