The trial of an American man arrested for ordering loli manga from Japan has ended after he pled guilty; he now faces a possible 15 year sentence, along with a $250,000 fine and the loss of all his precious loli manga.
The man, Iowa resident Christopher Handley, pled guilty to “possessing obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children and mailing obscene material,” charges stemming from postal workers rifling through his package and discovering it contained manga supposedly depicting under-age sexual activity.
After lengthy and complex legal proceedings, details of which were covered in the previous article on the matter, Handley finally folded and faces a maximum sentence of 15 years and $250,000 in fines, along with forfeiture of anything the government happened to take during the trial. Sentencing is due at a later date.
The precise nature of the material he was arrested for is not clear, but Handley’s lawyer has previously insisted they were harmless yaoi comics, which suggests either that the material was rather willfully misconstrued by the authorities, or that the defence is trying to pass off shota as being “yaoi” in order to lessen the opprobrium.
His lawyer, Eric Chase, explains in comments to the media last year:
“There is explicit sex in yaoi comics, and the men are drawn in a very androgynous style, which has the effect of making them look really young. There’s a real taboo in Japan about showing pubic hair, so they’re all drawn without it, which also makes them look young. So what concerned the authorities were the depictions of children in explicit sexual situations that they believed to be obscene. But there are no actual children. It was all very crude images from a comic book.”
However, we hear from the confession that the shipment in question consisted of “obscene material, including books containing visual representations of the sexual abuse of children, specifically Japanese manga drawings of minor females being sexually abused by adult males and animals.” The US Postal Service later conducted a search of his domicile and found the rest of his collection.
The circumstances surrounding Handley’s guilty plea are distinctly unclear (see the forum), but the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a pro-freedom of expression group closely involved in the case, condemns the wretched coward for caving in and so potentially introducing a precedent which could be used in further prosecutions, though they are hopeful this can be mitigated:
“Naturally, we are very disappointed by this result, but understand that in a criminal case, every defendant must make the decision that they believe serves their best interest. Because the set of facts specific to this case were so unique, we hope that its importance as precedent will be minimal. However, we must also continue to be prepared for the possibility that other cases could arise in the future as a result.”
The case is legally complex, but the core issue is that loli manga remains Constitutionally protected free speech, as judges have ruled the laws banning it contravene the First Amendment right to freedom of expression.
However, a legal loophole allows the charges of possession to stand due to the material having been “moved in interstate commerce,” even though it would otherwise be Constitutionally protected art.
Those looking for more speculative details, including supposed comments from those familiar with Mr Handley alleging he was a victim of exceedingly bad legal counsel, can read more on the forums.
Strangely, the vigour with which the US has been defending the rights of fictional children has not changed the fact that the USA remains one of the least safe places to be a child in the developed world according to the UN, despite having a legislature which seems obsessed with child protection…
Just Murica
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What confuses me about this is that they mentioned that the postal workers were rifling around in his package. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that in and of itself illegal? I believe it is, because someone’s mail is their own buisness.
Yeah, that’s the first thing that bothered me too. Unless they already knew what and in whose mail to look for, this means checking people’s mail is a habit to them.
well…for all for of you, ill answer your questions simply. – why? because thats all it really takes. no this indecisve s♥♥t you guys keep posting
– these corporate bastards and ”defense authorites” are evil. straight as that
and while monsters like gearge bush ”senior”
r♥♥e and molest all the kids they want, no one lifts a finger to lock them away forever or hang them high fromt he gallows, not even for giving hitler weapons or creating conspiract on a mass scale to name some crimes.
you ALL need to stop arguing and fighting amongst yourselfs and see that the same evil son of bitches who started the crusades witch burnings coup deta’s
of almost all other nations and defensless peoples,
are the same ”authoritie” ( the name just reeks of bullshit) who are in ”power” today.
they already ”arrest” people with a quatrer of a life sentence for having paper with things drawn on it. what next? them being able to go in your own home and install cameras? arrest you if you dont let them put a microchip in your skin?
you all need to look to look out of your tiny shells
and do whatr the russians did recently.
their bullcrap ”officals” became too greedy and corrupt. together the people marched over towards the major heads of power, and with rocks and stones beat the police unconcious, and put everythign back int heir hands. its a unuion now.
if you dont all take some action and help people like this man ( FOR BUYING A FUCKING COMIC BOOK!!!!!)
if and when s♥♥t gets so bad that the U.S military murderers occupy your home and towns, and stuff like that, and you do nothing –
youl have no one to blame but yourselves.
you have all the power, you all have all the power to change all this. toss aside your petty things and grab sticks and stakes and torches and march to washington and force them to put someone in power whos a normal, regular good person.
Excellent image choice, that single nipple is probably enough to destroy a guy’s life based on these ridiculous attitudes.