From the «Score: 15-year old girl, 1. 39-year old perv, 0.» department:
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Title: Nicholas Hawkes, 39, Becomes First in England To Be Jailed for Cyber Flashing
Author: msmash
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:40:00 -0400
Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/03/19/1838200/nicholas-hawkes-39-becomes-first-in-england-to-be-jailed-for-cyber-flashing?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

A man has been sentenced for cyber flashing in England for the first time. From a report: Nicholas Hawkes, 39, from Basildon in Essex, was jailed for 66 weeks at Southend Crown Court today after he sent unsolicited photos of his erect penis to a 15-year-old girl and a woman on 9 February. The older victim took screenshots of the offending image on WhatsApp and reported Hawkes to the police
the same day. Cyber flashing became a criminal offence in England with the passage of the Online Safety Act on 31 January. It has been a crime in Scotland since 2010. The offence covers the sending of an unsolicited sexual image to people via social media, dating apps, text message or data-sharing services such
as Bluetooth and AirDrop. Victims of cyber flashing get lifelong anonymity from the time they report the offence, as it also falls under the Sexual Offences Act.

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On 20 Mar 2024 12:36:29 GMT, Retrograde <[email protected]d>
wrote:

From
a report: Nicholas Hawkes, 39, from Basildon in Essex, was jailed for 66 weeks >at Southend Crown Court today after he sent unsolicited photos of his erect >penis to a 15-year-old girl and a woman on 9 February.

RE: he sent unsolicited photos

So, if solicited, that's OK ?

Wal-Mart's Nude Child Photo Policy Hits 9th
March 7, 2013

A couple who briefly lost custody of their children after developing
bath-time photos told the 9th Circuit that Wal-Mart should have
disclosed its "unsuitable print policy."

Lisa and A.J. Demaree say they photographed their daughters, who were
5, 4 and 1 1/2 at the time, in the bathtub while on a family trip to
San Diego in 2008. The couple then returned home to Arizona and
dropped off the camera's memory stick at a Wal-Mart in Peoria to have
the photos developed.

Wal-Mart employees later reported the photos to the Peoria Police
Department, which called in the Arizona Child Protective Services
Agency (CPS). The Demarees ended up losing custody of the girls for
more than a month while they fought to prove their innocence. A
Maricopa County Superior Court judge eventually reunited the family
after finding the photographs were not pornographic.

https://www.courthousenews.com/wal-marts-nude-child-photo-policy-hits-9th/

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On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 11:42:34 -0500
JAB <[email protected]d> wrote:

On 20 Mar 2024 12:36:29 GMT, Retrograde <[email protected]d>
wrote:

From
a report: Nicholas Hawkes, 39, from Basildon in Essex, was jailed for 66 weeks
at Southend Crown Court today after he sent unsolicited photos of his erect >penis to a 15-year-old girl and a woman on 9 February.

RE: he sent unsolicited photos

So, if solicited, that's OK ?

Wal-Mart's Nude Child Photo Policy Hits 9th
March 7, 2013

A couple who briefly lost custody of their children after developing bath-time photos told the 9th Circuit that Wal-Mart should have
disclosed its "unsuitable print policy."

Lisa and A.J. Demaree say they photographed their daughters, who were
5, 4 and 1 1/2 at the time, in the bathtub while on a family trip to
San Diego in 2008. The couple then returned home to Arizona and
dropped off the camera's memory stick at a Wal-Mart in Peoria to have
the photos developed.

Wal-Mart employees later reported the photos to the Peoria Police
Department, which called in the Arizona Child Protective Services
Agency (CPS). The Demarees ended up losing custody of the girls for
more than a month while they fought to prove their innocence. A
Maricopa County Superior Court judge eventually reunited the family
after finding the photographs were not pornographic.

https://www.courthousenews.com/wal-marts-nude-child-photo-policy-hits-9th/

That's awful; but it's hardly the same type of exposure?

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:51:14 +0000, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
<[email protected]> wrote:

That's awful; but it's hardly the same type of exposure?

Yes/No...an employee was under a company's policy to report
"pornographic" photos. It was "unsolicited" in manner of speaking if
the parents knew about Walmart's policy.

Photos of this nature were not uncommon many years ago in the 1950s,
btw.

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