Idaho Man Pleads Guilty To Owning Cartoon Images Of Sexual Acts Including Simpsons Characters

The disturbing trend of people being convicted for possessing imagery of sexual acts considered obscene by the court with jurisdiction, images that don't involve actual people in their production or depiction, continues in Idaho.

Thirty-three year old Steven Kutzner pleaded guilty on Wednesday to "Possession Of Obscene Visual Representations Of The Sexual Abuse Of Children." He will be sentenced in early 2011 and faces a maximum of ten years in federal prison and a fine of up to a quarter million dollars. A former teach that resigned about his arrest, Kutzner's arrest came about by cooperation between German and U.S. police forces. Kutzner's IP address was identified from activity he engaged in on October 4-5.

Seventy images were found during a 2009 search on Kutzner's computer of cartoon pornographic images including scenes involving the children characters from The Simpsons.

I find this slightly terrifying, as not only does this mean he's going to be convicted for an idea of something, there are things I can conceive of owning that have a clear satirical purpose -- Disneyland Orgy kind of stuff -- that I might not even think of as naughty in this way let alone deserving of a stint in the federal pokey. Heck, when I was in kindergarten I spent some time in Mrs. Sollenberger's class drawing naked pictures of my classmates peeing on which I placed the imaginative caption "This is you peeing." I wasn't exactly Steve Rude, naturally, but maybe the federal courts wouldn't have cared. I find the whole thing baffling and troubling.
 
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