U.S. Manga Obscenity Conviction Roils Comics World

In an obscenity first, a U.S. comic book collector has pleaded guilty to importing and possessing Japanese manga books depicting illustrations of child sex abuse and bestiality.

Christopher Handley, described by his lawyer as a “prolific collector” of manga, pleaded guilty last week to mailing obscene matter, and to “possession of obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children.” Three other counts were dropped in a plea deal with prosecutors.

The 39-year-old office worker was charged under the 2003 Protect Act, which outlaws cartoons, drawings, sculptures or paintings depicting minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct, and which lack “serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.” Handley’s guilty plea makes him the first to be convicted under that law for possessing cartoon art, without any evidence that he also collected or viewed genuine child pornography. He faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.

Comics fans are alarmed by the case, (.pdf), saying that jailing someone over manga does nothing to protect children from sexual abuse.

“This art that this man possessed as part of a larger collection of manga … is now the basis for [a sentence] designed to protect children from abuse,” says Charles Brownstein, executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. “The drawings are not obscene and are not tantamount to pornography. They are lines on paper.”

Congress passed the Protect Act after the Supreme Court struck down a broader law prohibiting any visual depictions of minors engaged in sexual activity, including computer-generated imagery and other fakes. The high court ruled that the ban was overbroad, and could cover legitimate speech, including Hollywood productions.

In response, the Protect Act narrows the prohibition to cover only depictions that the defendant’s community would consider “obscene.”


粗略看了下，热衷收集日本儿童色情动漫的39岁猥琐大叔正面临最高15年的监禁，就因为丫的珍藏

天朝萝莉控们真幸福系列

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那个什么风飞估计在米国早被监狱里的大叔菊爆了

上个月我一加拿大哥们就问我，下载这些资源会不会被抓，因为加拿大就被抓了几个……
我就对他说没事儿= =

也不知道我这句没事儿之后他到底有事儿还是没事儿……

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ls害人不浅

在欧美国家会被抓的。。。

这位大叔应该BT共享一下，再死不迟。。造福大家

第一次对身在天朝感觉自豪.

美帝比天朝还河蟹啊。

搞不懂萝莉控与二次元控本质区别的人在世界范围内似乎都是绝大多数

美帝那管得特别严，但是欧洲那好像就松多了。

上次一个挪威人跟我说他们那随便传，不必担心会惹上麻烦。

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原帖由 Smilebit：） 于 2009-5-29 23:50 发表
搞不懂萝莉控与二次元控本质区别的人在世界范围内似乎都是绝大多数

握手

我絕對不要移民美帝

teenage的片也是美蒂出得多，小日本只能出出解析度超低的個人撮影

美蒂太可怕了

天朝真性福系列