Posted on 11/21/2019 11:33:51 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah woman charged with a crime after her stepchildren saw her topless in her own home is fighting the case that could force her to register as a sex offender, citing a court ruling that overturned a topless ban in Colorado.
Attorneys for Tilli Buchanan argue that the law is unfair because it treats men and women differently for baring their chests. They are asking a judge to overturn her misdemeanor lewdness charges and declare that part of the law unconstitutional.
Prosecutors counter that nudity is commonly understood to include women’s breasts in American society and that courts have upheld laws based on morality.
Judge Kara Pettit heard the case Tuesday but said it was “too important of an issue” to decide immediately. She plans to rule in the coming months
When the children, ages 9 through 13, walked in, she “explained she considers herself a feminist and wanted to make a point that everybody should be fine with walking around their house or elsewhere with skin showing,” her lawyers said in court documents.
Buchanan was charged with three counts of misdemeanor lewdness involving a child in February. It came after child welfare officials began an investigation involving the kids that wasn’t tied to Buchanan and the children’s mother reported the incident to authorities because she was “alarmed.”
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She faces registering as a child sex offender for 10 years!
Stuff like this is why I shower fully clothed. You can’t be too careful.
Time to reduce the number of Utah state prosecutors. They obviously have too much time on their hands.
The image of 80 year-old grannys sunbathing topless on European beaches was forever burned onto my brain when I was 15 years old and on a high-school student exchange.
More details here..... https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/09/30/this-utah-woman-was/
Free The Nipple has taken up her cause.
I am sure the people of Utah feel so much safer with this woman’s breasts properly holstered. Maybe she needs a concealed carry permit?
The lengths an ex-wife will go to are limitless.
If you've seen one boob - - You want to see them all!
You nailed it. That’s EXACTLY what is driving this drivel.
They’re all keeping abreast of developments, you can be sure.
So basically any mother that breast feeds is a sex offender?
Can see why they voted for Romney.
Would you want your kids exposed to this women?
She was concerned about her children.
This is the same mindset as that recently announced by the San Fransisco DA regarding how they will not enforce the laws against public defecation in the street, or camping on the street, or prostitution.
People think civilized society can be maintained without enforcing relatively minor laws, but pretty soon you end up with a disgusting decadent society that is no longer functional.
You think it's reasonable for young teenage boys to be able to view their mother's tits? Where do you draw the line?
How about we keep the line drawn at normal meaning we don't allow this sort of crap?
So basically you didnt read the article!
There were no mitigating sunbathers?
How do you feel about showing their Vayjay? When one crosses the Rubicon from normal society into hedonism land, one must inquire of the enablers where the new boundaries ought to lie.
She is the Step Mother or more precisely, she is the Titular Mom.
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