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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I read the article to see if the reason this even came up was because of the guy’s ex. Yep.
It was in private. If all that was done was them being seen, I really don’t see how the state can be involved in this. It was private property and not “public”.
What Deputy Attorney Corey Sherwin was doing in their home to be able to allege this is the real story:
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West Valley City Deputy Attorney Corey Sherwin offers a different account in court papers: He alleges that Buchanan stripped down in front of her stepchildren after making a statement about how if her husband could take off his shirt, then a woman should be able to as well.
He further alleges that Buchanan, while “under the influence of alcohol,” had told her husband that she would only put her shirt back on if he showed her his penis.
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Reminds me of how the “impeachment” “witnesses” allege wrongdoing by Trump.
What did the bra say to the hat? “You go on ahead while I give these two a lift.”
So, the husband has remarried a woman young enough to be his children’s older sister and she likes nudity. I’m with the ex-wife on this. Totally inappropriate in a 13 year old boy’s presence. And sooner or later women are going to have to admit that breasts are objects that stimulate sexual desire. Men’s chests might too, but I’ve never heard of a woman immediately being overcome with desire after seeing a man go ‘topless’.
Glad you noticed that too.......
So does this mean nudist must automatically register for that status?
Unless she was behaving lewdly simply having her breasts exposed in her own home seems rather harmless. What about breastfeeding in front of children in your own home? What about sunbathing topless in your own yard (with privacy fencing)? I can think of plenty of times a child might see partial nudity in perfectly innocent scenarios.
I have legal advice for this woman. Claim you gender identify as a man. End of case or she can claim harassment in federal court.
No, and there never are, it seems.
The corollary is: Lesbians -Definitely not like in the movies.
Oh yeah. I think that is what this really is about.
So you watched the debates?
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Ha! You've never seen how women react when I go swimming. ;-)
“Alleges” I bet this comes from the mom who reported it.
That would work better than saltpeter.
Did your mother parade around topless in front of your teenage friends?
-PJ
Like walkin’ barefoot across a field of boobs and never touchin’ the ground.
Stupid.
My parents were in all kinds of dress or undress as I was growing up.
Didn’t scar my conscious or soul.
However, they are really, really old now and seeing them in anything but clothes would definitely cause me to lose my eyesight and bark like a mad dog at any sound, day and night...
These asshats need to get a life.
just gaze a photo of her and she doesn’t appear to be guilty...
This is ridiculous.
Not that I think what she did was OK by any means, but when you consider what is being pushed on kids in public schools in the way of sex ed curriculum, going after someone as a sex offender for this at home is ridiculous.
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