Man in Court Over Simpsons Porn

Ever get the urge to look at pornographic drawings of famous cartoon children? Neither do I, but 28-year-old Kurt James Milner did, and that's what got him registered as a sex offender. Police received a tip about the pornographic material and eventually found images featuring child characters from The Simpsons and The Powerpuff Girls on Milner's computer. Back in 2008, a Supreme Court judge in Australia ruled that cartoons in which child characters engage in sexual acts is child pornography. Milner said he downloaded the images to show them to his friend 'because he believed they were funny.' Guess it's not so funny now.

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No wonder we're losing the battle on child porn...

[tck44]

The best part of this story... "Officers discovered the computer would no longer turn on but a year later police forensic experts recovered 64 images of cartoon child exploitation material in the machine’s recycle bin." So, it took officers a year to mount the hard drive in another system, and take a look in the recycle bin.

Re:Insanity.

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Oh , and I must point out how brilliant the Queensland police are:

but a year later police forensic experts recovered 64 images of cartoon child exploitation material in the machine’s recycle bin.

12 months of crypto analysis before somebody looked in the recycle bin?