This week Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judge Kenneth Farrar found there was enough evidence to send 10 counts against Wojdyla to a grand jury based on this theory.
This is obviously an incredible creep. Wojdyla and his family went on a beach vacation with the girl and her family in August. He never touched the girl but took copious pictures.
Wojdyla’s boss at Alliance Industrial Corp., Tom Ligue, testified that the images were discovered on a computer and in a photo album in his office. Ligue was suspicious by his conduct and repeatedly closing of the same file when people were around. While Wojdyla was a lunch, he opened the file and found the disgusting pictures.
Ligue fired him and called the police. Wojdyla told police that he used his computer at work to manipulate photos to superimpose nude adult genitals over the girl’s bikini. The pictures made it look like he was having sex with the girl.
If he is convicted, the charges carry a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison on the first offense, 15 years on subsequent offenses.
There is no question that this man is one sick guy. However, there remains the question of whether it is pornography when the picture is a fake and does not depict an actual sexual contact. Recently, the Supreme Court of New Hampshire ruled that putting the face of a child on adult bodies did not constitute child pornography. Clearly, there is a basis for him to be fired and sued civilly but the case will again raise the question of liability for purely fantasy images.
This is obviously more than cartoon characters having sex as in the recent English case, but it remains a computer generated image.
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