Unlike most FReepers who bash every actor and actress (and thereby reinforce the stereotype that conservatives don't know jack about the arts) I enjoy (most) Hollywood motion pictures and am a rabid fan of IMDB. I think Dakota is the next Jodie Foster.
I could be wrong, but I think the problem here is that this seems to not be done for the purposes of character development, but done for the purpose of titillation.
There are plenty of ways to film a scene in such a way that these issues wouldn't come up, so I'm unsure why the director wouldn't want to err on the side of making this less exploitive of the child, unless the exploitation was the goal.
quandry... apparently the depiction in this film would be illegal online... hhhmmm