NSW: Sex cartoon based on The Simpsons is child porn: judge

AAP General News (Australia)
12-08-2008
NSW: Sex cartoon based on The Simpsons is child porn: judge

A man charged over cartoons showing sex acts involving children modelled on The Simpsons
characters has failed to get his child porn convictions overturned.

ALAN JOHN MCEWAN was convicted in February of possessing child pornography and using
his computer to access child pornography.

The cartoons showed characters like BART .. LISA and MAGGIE SIMPSON having sex.

He was convicted and fined three-thousand dollars and placed on a good behaviour bond.

NSW Supreme Court Justice MICHAEL ADAMS has dismissed an appeal ruling that fictional
and imaginary characters are considered to be people under state and federal laws.

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KEYWORD: MCEWAN (SYDNEY)

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