Man sentenced in obscenity case

Topeka Capitol Journal/AP wire ^ | Last Modified: 11:36 p.m. - 2/17/2003 | The Associated Press

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For the next two years, a former parochial school teacher in Wichita will have the government watching his every move on the Internet, as part of a plea agreement in a rare federal obscenity case against him.

Jeffrey Klazura, 30, was sentenced for possessing two pictures of adult women posing nude on his home computer.

He was ordered to provide passwords to the government. And federal probation officers can check his computer at any time, or attach software to let them watch his online activity. If he goes to the wrong site, he could be sentenced to prison.

"I'm not familiar with many, if any, prosecutions involving obscenity when the subject is an adult women. That's virtually unheard of," Barry Steinhardt, of the American Civil Liberties Union, said Monday.

A New York-based nonprofit national interfaith organization called Morality in Media Inc. found only seven prosecutions nationwide under any U.S. obscenity law in 2001, the most recent year available. The group also found that many states, including Kansas, hadn't prosecuted a single obscenity case in the years since 1993.

Klazura, who was sentenced earlier this month, got into trouble when he asked a Yahoo photo service to convert pictures of young-looking females from electronic form to photo prints, according to court documents filed by the U.S. Postal Service.

Yahoo notified authorities. After Yahoo told Klazura in an e-mail that the pictures could be illegal, he immediately canceled his order, court records show. But the postal inspector got permission from federal authorities to deliver Klazura's canceled order, leading to his arrest and giving authorities the right to search his home computer.

Klazura was charged with child pornography because the females in some of the photographs delivered to his home looked young. Their ages weren't established in court documents.

After Klazura's lawyer, Dan Monnat, accused the government of trapping Klazura into a criminal action, the U.S. attorney offered a plea for the lesser obscenity charges, stemming from the two pictures of nude adult women found on his home computer.

Last Modified: 11:36 p.m. - 2/17/2003

[GirlShortstop]

Jeffrey Klazura, 30, was sentenced for possessing two pictures of adult women posing nude on his home computer.

Ewwww... I hope he wiped down all peripherals touched by these ladies.

[GirlShortstop]

Holy Toledo! What if they come after me because of my nifty collection of this babe's pics? I guess I'm off to Attica....

AAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

ROFLMAO!!!

[AppyPappy]

I have also been here long enough to know the media will lie to me to make a point.

[ShadowDancer]

Of course they will. However, point out the inconsistencies in this one.

[ErnBatavia]

Hopefully, it's just a little "Chemical Imbalance"....someday I might be cured of thinking about how hot she is/was/could be....

[rwfromkansas]

I doubt this is the whole story.

If so, even Mr. Christian Conservative here has some concerns about this.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

...for possessing two pictures of adult women posing nude on his home computer.

Number 1...Nudity is not necessarily pornography.

Number 2...There is more to this case than is readily apparent.

[rwfromkansas]

And for the record, I support laws against homosexual sodomy and for extreme cases of blasphemy (if it is done in a place of worship mainly or done to disturb religious people intentionally).

But, this seems too far; I do not like the idea of folks just snooping on people's computers.

[AdA$tra]

As an IT professional, I can safely say that I could find twon naked women pictures on about half of the PC's in the world regardless of whether they were viewed by the owner of the PC intentionally. Tucked away in the temporary internet files are all the images from pop-up pages and outlook express spam.

[cavtrooper21]

Which, under the new Patriot Act provisions, gives the government cause to now search every computer out there! This will make them very happy!