State Supreme Court Rules Having Sex With Minors is Legal But Sexting Them is Illegal

(Matt Agorist) Sexting minors is illegal, but having gender alongside them is okay, an Indiana Supreme Court has ruled.

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Source - The Free Thought Project

by Matt Agorist, Oct 8th, 2017

Indiana high schoolhouse instructor Sameer Thakar faces 3 years inwards prison theatre for sending nude photographs to a 16-year old daughter afterward the Supreme Court ruled before this calendar week to contrary a lower court’s determination to throw out the case.

Thakar began texting the teenager inwards 2014, when he was 38. After a brusque menstruum inwards which the daughter told him she was underage, he as well as then sent her images of his erect penis, courtroom documents reveal.

The State charged then-38-year-old Sameer Girish Thakar alongside Class D felony dissemination of affair harmful to minors nether Indiana Code department 35-49-3-3(a)(1) (2008) (“the Dissemination Statute”), afterward Thakar sent a photograph of his erect penis to a 16-year-old girl. The trial courtroom dismissed the charges, relying upon Salter v. State, 906 N.E.2d 212 (Ind. Ct. App. 2009), trans. non sought, which institute the Dissemination Statute void for vagueness equally applied, because the intended recipient met Indiana’s historic menstruum of consent to sexual activity. We straight off overrule Salter, agree that the Dissemination Statute is non unconstitutionally vague, as well as reverse.

He was charged alongside i count of felony dissemination of affair harmful to minors, but argued inwards courtroom that the accuse doesn’t brand sense.

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In Indiana, it is legal for adults to receive got consensual gender alongside xvi twelvemonth olds. It is illegal, however, for a individual to knowingly transportation sexually explicit photographs to someone nether 18, which is classed equally disseminating fabric harmful to minors.
The courtroom originally threw out the charges, explaining it was “patently illogical” that a human being could receive got gender alongside a teenager, but non transportation them images. The illustration was appealed as well as ended upward inwards Indiana’s Supreme Court.

Believing that it was apparently illogical that an adult human being could legally exhibit his penis to a 16-year-old through consensual activity inwards person, but non through photography, the Salter courtroom held the statute was unconstitutionally vague equally applied because the activity inwards inquiry would non move understood past times a individual of ordinary intelligence equally “‘patently offensive to prevailing standards inwards the adult community equally a whole alongside honour to what is suitable affair for or surgical procedure before minors,’” which is a necessary chemical constituent of the statutory Definition of “harmful to minors” contained inwards Indiana Code department 35-49-2-2 (2008).

The Supreme Court found the charges should move upheld, despite the “inconsistent” law. It institute no conflict betwixt the ii rules, equally both tin move complied alongside at the same time.

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“With honour to a 16-year-old, consensual gender inwards individual is permitted, the dissemination of a sexually explicit photograph (consensually or otherwise) is not,” Justice Mark Massa wrote.

Massa said the courtroom interprets the text of the law, as well as that it’s upward to seat down lawmakers to variety out the inconsistency.

About the Author

Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC as well as one-time intelligence operator straight tasked past times the NSA. This prior sense gives him unique insight into the Blue Planet of authorities corruption as well as the American police pull state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade as well as has been featured on mainstream networks to a greater extent than or less the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter, Steemit, as well as straight off on Facebook.

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