[Apollo]

Tovar, ..., could now face up to 10 years in prison. Tovar is automatically required to register as a sexual offender for the rest of his life.

Good.

[aimhigh]

Expect today's Supreme Court ruling to overturn this.

[Cathryn Crawford]

I'm waiting for the people to show up and tell me that the 16 year old didn't know what she was doing. I'm waiting...

[Anthem]

10 years... for stupidity.

[squidly]

What kinda freakazoid takes pictures of a naked 16 year old boy at the RiverWalk anyway?

[proud American in Canada]

"Tovar was led away in handcuffs as some of his family members wept"

Good.

Sorry, dude. Busted! And that is as it should be.

[Cicero]

The article uses the phrase "nude teen" again and again, and just works in that one reference to gender. Almost any normal reader would assume this was a teenage girl until hitting that one word. It's what I would call dishonest reporting. It's obviously motivated by political correctness.

[DAnconia55]

If Benito Tovar considers himself an artist, then a jury essentially ordered him today to suffer for his art. The jury of six men and six woman, all of them parents, took less two hours today to proclaim the 33-year-old guilty of the two charges stemming from nude photographs he took of a 16-year-old on the River Walk about 1 ½ years ago.

Ridiculous.

[cherry]

“In my eyes it was a minor who was completely nude, and it was disturbing to me from the moment I saw them,” juror Marc Villarreal said. “I think everyone in this jury agrees with me, and we never thought of it as art from the very beginning.”

I wonder if the jury would be as disturbed if it was a 16 year old girl doing those poses...???

It seems our society can get disgusted and uppity about boy nudity but girl nudity is acceptable and rationalized .

girls and women can be used and abused but just don't hurt my boys....no siree.....

well, since the Supremes have now condonned homsexual practices, get used to seeing more teenage boys showing up nude in movies, books, tv, magazines, etc.....

Get used to seeing young boys and men being debased and manipulated and dehumanized for the sake of the homosexul, just as girls and woman have been for the hetero community....

[thegreatbeast]

A nude isn't pornography. I'll bet dollars to donuts the 16 year old was sporting an erection in the pictures otherwise I don't see the guilty finding being delivered.
I don't know what happened to it but it used to be that an obscenity was something that offended "community standards" but I thought that went the way of the Dodo bird.
But you've got to picture this: a sixteen year old rampant male on the Riverwalk at midday. This ain't the Brooklyn Museum of Art and this guy ain't Robert Maplethorpe. The guy was asking for the Law to unload on him. Stupid b_st_rd.

[Alouette]

“The verdict was indicative of where we are living,” Cuellar told reporters. “It’s a Bible Belt area, and I think this verdict would’ve been different somewhere else.”

Uh, yeah, in Saudi Arabia he would have probably gotten a death sentence.