Posted on 10/29/2009 10:17:26 PM PDT by Steelfish
Texas Law Challenged After Man Allegedly Forces Daughters to Watch 'Hardcore Porn'
October 30, 2009
DALLAS — A 1970s-era Texas law that allows parents to show "harmful material" to their children has come under fire after a prosecutor said he couldn't file charges against a man accused of forcing his 8- and 9-year-old daughters to watch hardcore online pornography.
Randall County District Attorney James Farren has asked the Texas attorney general's office to review his decision not to pursue charges in the case, which has prompted at least one lawmaker to vow to change the state's public indecency law.
"Our hands are tied. It's not our fault. I have to follow the law," Farren said Thursday. "The mother of the victims in this case was less than happy with this decision, which I understand. We were less than happy with the statute."
The law apparently was meant to protect the privacy of parents who wanted to teach children about sex education, but it states clearly that parents can't be prosecuted for showing "harmful material" to their children.
Farren said police reported the incident to his office after one of the girls told a counselor in June that her father made them watch adults having group sex and various other acts at his home in Amarillo. The parents of the girls, and their 7-year-old sister, are divorced and share custody.
The girls' mother, Crystal Buckner, wants her ex-husband to be jailed. She said she was stunned to hear from prosecutors and police that nothing can be done.
"I said, 'Are you kidding me?' There's no way. This can't be right," said Buckner, a 30-year-old stay-at-home mother.
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And some men at FR, who here shall remain unnamed (but you guys KNOW who you are!) always blame women for their divorces. This one example is damnably raunchy. These young girls weren’t yet even teenagers.
Criminal law is one thing.
Child custody and protection from abuse is something entirely different.
It is entirely possible to lose your kids without EVER being convicted of a crime.
This is one sick mofo. Isn’t the act of forcing them to watch porn considered child abuse? There are no laws against child abuse there?
What about Federal charges ?
“Child custody and protection from abuse is something entirely different”
Good point about child abuse! But at some point child abuse has to be criminal, and this is serious mental abuse of very young girls.
It appears that the District Attorney’s office made a technical error and prosecuted the father under the wrong law (”public indecency?”). The father has not been acquitted of anything, and still can be prosecuted.
There’s one vile SOB. Due process in my view would be a short rope and a high branch. I hear they actually did that in “less enlightened times.” Mabey if we pointed out how “green” it would be to off human garbage like that...well, never mind.
Thanks for including the men here with this pervert. Sounds like you are the one with the latent anger issues. As with most things in life, no one group is responsible for all evils.
On an earlier thread, it was pointed out that for an ex husband to have custody is rare in Texas. The woman either did something blatantly wrong or took great pains to forsake the children. The whole charge might be a lie.
Keep in mind these three words: nothing was proven.
LOLOLOLOLO!!
I met so-o-o-o many pathetic divorced men while serving in the U.S. Navy...their exwives were all evil gorgons (if you don’t know what a gorgon is, google it)...you guys are outing yourselves.
No, I’m not putting all of you into a group. You’re all quite capable of doing that to yourselves!
As for me, I adore American men - the only REAL red-blooded males left on planet Earth. I know. I reared one who going on 18-years old this coming Feb. He is now at boarding school at a ranch in Utah, learing Russian, how to wrangle cattle, and earning his high school diploma before joining the Air Force.
There would be one good reason for such a law as this: so parents are not prosecuted for showing children medically accurate diagrams and the like in connection with teaching the “birds and the bees.”
Time has a way of making the proud eat crow, Doll. Report back on your darling in ten years.
He’ll do fine. As for you, you don’t sound like you’re doing so well.
What’s up, if you care to chat?
Let me put it this way: in women, I don’t go for fragile, easily wearing dolls.
Reread the article. It says they share custody, which is pretty common.
I hope the woman goes to family court to get 100% custody. There must be *something* she can pull out of the closet to get her girls away from that man.
Before we all drag out the rope:
1) Anyone with a computer could find themselves in a similiar situation. Zealous prosecutors love publicity and this is a great headline for re-election. However, Google Search forces kids to see porn everyday and noone says a word.
Porn is all over the internet without the least hint of a cover-page. Let any child use a computer and porn is just a one word search away. Google should be in jail with this guy.
2) He goes to jail and lazy stay at home Mom loses child-support income. REAL SMART.
3) Everyday in Texas schools, at the library, on the computer, kids see material that promotes and teaches sex. Gonna lock up Obama and the Congress?
Now let’s be real. This guy needs to see the Judge overseeing his custody. Maybe some therepy after the full story comes out. If this is his way of teaching sex to the girls, he missed the mark in technique, but they probably already saw it on Facebook or My Space.
The Mother needs a job.
The internet needs age verification.
Every library in the USA needs a porn filter. Maybe even a seperate internet for decent people.
And the rest of us need to understand that parents should have a FEW rights left, after the nanny-people nannize the whole freaking country.
Now, after saying all that. I say we cain the jerk for being an idiot.
Best idea I've read all day! I hear there is plenty of room in GITMO...
Something needs to be proven first. If you just reflexively cheer for your sex, you may find yourself cheering for evil.
I was going by the “facts” as reported by the article. The truth, of course, may be different. I do not cheer reflexively for my sex, or I would have supported Hillary Clinton for President. Your own assumption that I do that is unwarranted.
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