Re: [Leica] Some may find this of interest

["\(SonC\) Sonny Carter" <sonc@sonc.com>]

Well said, Kim.

Today's story in the Roanoke Times:
Friends defend photographer as he is arraigned on sex charges
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story150953.html

SonC



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From: <Teresa299@aol.com>
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Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Some may find this of interest


>
> In a message dated 6/14/03 8:26:45 AM, jbcollier@shaw.ca writes:
>
> << The article stated that he is accused of doing those acts while the
> victim was unconscious; in other words, aggravated assault and sexual
> contact without consent (i.e.: rape). There is also the inference that
> Bob may have supplied the drugs in question which would at least add
> the charge of manslaughter; perhaps even second degree murder depending
> any motive.
>
> John Collier
>  >>
>
>
>
> You know what, papers love scandal.  Sells more papers.
>
> Who knows what the real story is here.  Bob Shell perv freak?  Marion
> Franklin victim of Bob's evil ways?   Maybe Bob Shell was trying to help
someone who
> was addicted to drugs and rather than send her to a detox center he
enabled
> her, took photos of her, and she simply died at his studio.  Maybe Bob was
> mainly a friend but fell helplessly in love with someone half his age
(lots of
> older men do this as they approach their male menopause).   Maybe the
drugs were
> forcefully administered to Marion, maybe they were into kinky sex/edge
play
> where one party consentually enters into the realm of semi or quasi
> consciousness, that is consentual but dangerous nevertheless.  Maybe her
being
> incapacitated meant that she was into bondage and that she was tied up and
not
> unconscious.   Who knows?
>
>
> I do know that when a photographer goes from shooting simply flowers and
> snapshots of clothed family you can get into the realm of a world of shit.
> Photographers who shoot street protests can get clubbed, their leica's
actually
> bruised.  Photographers who shoots a verboten subject can get arrested,
> questioned, perhaps put on some secret governmental patriot act III list
of possible
> threat to the US.   Photographers who shoot unclothed subjects can
depending on
> where they live and what they shoot be accused or at least swiped with the
> veneer of pornography.    Just look at what happened to Sally Mann and her
photos
> of children, naked children.  Sally Mann, pornographer?
>
> I don't presume to know what happened in this case.  I don't know the
> motivations of the local police, or whether a prosecutor is up for
re-election or
> looking for higher office, or whether Bob is really a piece of pond scum
or a
> perpetrator of bad judgement by taking drugs and having sex with 19 year
old
> girl/women who take drugs as well.  In any case, involving a photographer
who
> shoots nudes, I always wait to hear all sides of the story.  Why?  Because
it's
> such a titilating subject and in our sexually repressive society, facts
can
> often get lost in the way of scandal.
>
> What is obvious is that a 19 year young women is dead.  And that is a
> tragedy.  Of course lots of 19 year old women died in the world the last
few days,
> most that we'll never hear about because they died in far away places and
died
> of starvation, war, as battered wives or whatnot.  They all have died too
young
> and I hope whoever was responsible in all their cases, get a taste of
justice
> in the end.
>
>
> -Kim
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