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Six-month sentence for importing the wrong kind of comic books from Japan

By Douglas A. Berman

Thanks to this post at How Appealing, I saw this interesting item on a Wired.com blog, which is titled "'Obscene' U.S. Manga Collector Jailed 6 Months."  Here are the particulars: A U.S. comic book collector is being sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to importing and possessing Japanese manga books depicting illustrations of child sex and bestiality. Christopher Handley was sentenced in Iowa on Thursday, almost a year after pleading guilty to charges of possessing ?obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children.? The 40-year-old was charged under the 2003 Protect Act, which outlaws cartoons, drawings, sculptures or paintings depicting minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct, and which lack ?serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 15, 2010 (boomark / email).