Not something your mom is proud to tell people.

Nando: The pediatrician has an excuse to be an “expert” on naked kiddies. The Customs agent, not so much.

Does a prosecutor’s failure to take common-sense steps to confirm the basis of a charge (ie, checking the birthday on Fuentes’ ID) amount to a violation of due process?

Does Simon-Timmerman have a civil rights claim?

hahahahaha!

Q: How do you know you watch too much porn?

A: When you recognize the goat from another movie.

Because I believe strongly in our civil rights I did a little research on Ms. Fuentes last night. Assuming it was the same person (which you never know with porn names), it appears Ms. Fuentes at some point in her career had some work done to um, enhance her assets. Most of the stuff out there appears post-op and looks like standard porn fare. I did, however, find some stuff that was clearly pre-op (or is a different person all together) and she really did look around the age of 14–like, to the point where I didn’t find it attractive (and trust me, I’m no prude). Of course, while that might justify the Customs agent calling over his supervisor, that by no means justifies the AUSA’s actions. It seems like if you’re going to go through all the trouble of regulating the porn industry, you should be able to tap into those resources when it can provide the dispositive fact as to whether a suspect is innocent or guilty.

I have to wonder why Simon-Timmerman’s lawyer didn’t subpoena the records from the studio. It’s an obvious thing to do, and makes the point that the prosecution has not requested those records, for some reason.

Note that the studio where that particular video was made is outside the US and may not have the same record-keeping requirements. She has made other videos for US producers and it was by that that they knew she was of age due to their record-keeping, but the prosecutor obviously didn’t want to spend that much effort in finding this information.

This is a good reason why corrupt prosecutors need to be open to civil liability. It would be interesting to find out via discovery at what point she knew the charges were fraudulent.

‘Hernandez-Vega prosecuted sexual predators to keep YOUR kids safe. Vote Hernandez-Vega for *insert higher position here*’

Ten.

Hmm… doubt that. It’s a good argument for why all porn made between consenting adults should be legal though. If you can figure out how to get an adult horse or dog to legally consent I’m all for it, but without consent, or if you’re not capable of giving consent, and with the evidence showing that children and teenagers don’t have a developmentally mature brain you’ll have a hard time showing them to be capable of adult consent, you’ll have to settle for age-play and furry-play porn if that’s what turns your crank.

http://xkcd.com/699/