A peeping Tom rigged a tanning bed so (female) adults and children alike could be watched and filmed by him. This is bad taste, and quite common. He deserves a lesson. He probably needs some therapy. From the story below, it seems they don’t even prosecute him for peeping and filming adults. For that transgression he probably would receive a deserved and measured punishment.
The punishment for violating the privacy of adults is negligible compared to the draconian child porn prison terms he faces. For peeping and filming minors, he is likely to suffer enormous and disproportional punishment. Decades for each count of child pornography "production" could add up to a century.
The victims did not even notice they were filmed. So they did not suffer great harm (except for the Voodoo theory of child porn victimization). No, I am not saying that there should be no punishment.
But does it make sense to punish him as strictly as for child kidnapping for ransom?
- Do you prefer your child to be secretly watched and filmed by a shy immature pervert or be kidnapped?
- Don’t you prefer your kid to be secretly filmed on the tanning bed 100 times, then to suffer one single instance of kidnapping? I would be more concerned about the cancer risk from 100 tannings.
Wouldn’t you rather have your kid secretly filmed on a tanning bed then to fall victim to any of the following
- The neighborhood gang extorting an adolescent’s or child’s lunch money
- School bullies sticking a kid’s head in the toilet or beating the child (even if only lightly)
- Drunk drivers running over children on the street
- Bicycle robbers that dangerously push children off bicycles
- Dog owners that don’t keep their dogs leashed, locked, muzzled and thus get children bitten?
- A flash mob roaming the neighborhood, setting ablaze buildings
All the above crimes carry much lower penalties. So why does our perverted filming peeping Tom get so much higher penalties then those who truly endanger and traumatize our children?
This peeping Tom erred, committed a puerile immature mistake. Unlike many other victims of the child pornography witch hunt that are totally innocent
This peeping Tom is an example of compulsive people who might be helped to refrain from acting out their urges with real children, if they had easier access to legal child "pornography": depictions of harmless photos and videos of adolescents in tanning beds.
We can not know if he was interested in actual true children because we invented manipulative language to confuse on purpose, confuse adolescents with children
"Tanning bed pervert" nailed for kiddie porn production
Doyce Dean Griffis of Starke, FL, is charged with seven counts of production of child pornography, two counts of receiving child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography.
According to police reports, from February 2000 until April 26 of this year, the 48-year old Griffis operated and maintained a tanning bed in an "outbuilding" at his residence.
[…] without to his customers’ knowledge, the room had been equipped by Griffis with a two-way mirror that allowed him to view the room from a second concealed room. Griffis also made a hole in an air vent near the foot of the tanning bed that allowed him to view the customers as they lay inside the tanning bed.
Using the two-way mirror and the hole in the air vent, Griffis secretly videotaped dozens of female customers, including minors.
On each of the production counts, Griffis faces 15 to 30 years in federal prison. On each of the receipt counts, he faces five to 20 years in prison. On the possession count, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.
Find dozens more articles about the excesses of the child porn witch hunt and the damage it causes.
The exaggerated rage over “sex crimes” against children began as a way to get more sympathy and funding for feminism. Read the book “The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Emotion, Social Movements and the State.”
Religious fundamentalists joined feminists because they felt insecure in our rapidly changing world. The commercial interests followed (psychotherapists, publishers, lawyers, etc.)
But there is a growing reaction against the hysteria, since some people are sincerely interested in what’s best for children.