Australian Convicted For Cartoon Porn

A 28-year-old Australian man named Kurt James Milner pleaded guilty Tuesday to "charges of possessing child exploitation material and using a carriage service to access child exploitation material" according to a widely-disseminated report by reporter Felicity Caldwell. The man was sentenced to 12 months in jail, but that sentence was suspended. A conviction was recorded on his record and he is now a registered sex offender.

Milner was convicted for the discovery in 2008 of imagery on his computer where characters including underage ones from The Simpson, The Powerpuff Girls and The Incredibles were engaging in sexual activity. Milner claimed throughout that the images were not there for sexual satisfaction but for amusement. The content of Milner's computer were reported to the police by an anonymous source.

The conviction provided the classic over-coffee debate set-up of a someone with a previous conviction for possessing child exploitation material having this material and the community asserting an interest in his looking at such material against the idea that these are cartoon characters, after all, and that this establishes a precedent through which owning a copy of Robert Crumb's "Joe Blow" could lead to being nailed as a sex offender.
 
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