Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Pornography?
From: Guy Bennett <guybnt@idt.net>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 09:22:51 -0700

>How about this?  I met a woman at a gallery opening last night and this is
>her tale of woe. She's a serious amature photographer and a grandmother who
>lives in New Jersey.  She took some snaps of her grandchildren-- age 3 and
>6-- in the bath tub and took the pictures to the local one-hour lab. When she
>returned to collect the pictures she was arrested, taken to the police
>station, fingerprinted, photographed, charged as a child pornographer  and
>locked up pending $50,000 bail.  She was released after paying a $5000
>non-refundable bond.  Her home was searched, her photos and computers, CD rom
>and every floppy disk were  siezed as evidence and her family was
>interrogated, She was suspended from her 31-year job as a social worker.  Her
>case is pending, and she says it will cost her $30,000 to defend herself.
>For further info see her website:
>http://members.aol/_ht_a/marianrubin/MariansNewsPage.html



was she using a leica or not?

guy