Man Guilty of Possession of Child Pornography For Downloading Sexual Cartoons of Simpson and Pokemon Characters

Australian Glenn Phillip McGuire, 28, has pleaded guilty of possession of child pornography after downloading six images of cartoon characters from The Simpsons and Pokemon in sexual scenes.

The Australian Supreme Court ruled child pornography can include sexually explicit images of cartoon characters in a ruling that sweeps away logic and speech rights. While tasteless and humorless, such images seem far removed from the purposes of outlawing pornography unless the victimization of fictional television characters has become a major social problem in Australia.

Yet, Magistrate Sharon Holdsworth insisted that it should not matter if the images did not depict actual children being exploited and that there was still a need to deter members of the community from looking at such pictures.

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