Maine makes it illegal to look at children in a public place
Bill toughens law on visual sexual aggression against children in Maine
Those who peer at children in public could find themselves on the wrong side of the law in Maine soon.
A bill that passed the House last month aims to strengthen the crime of visual sexual aggression against children, according to state Rep. Dawn Hill, D-York.
Her involvement started when Ogunquit Police Lt. David Alexander was called to a local beach to deal with a man who appeared to be observing children entering the community bathrooms. Because the state statute prevents arrests for visual sexual aggression of a child in a public place, Alexander said he and his fellow officer could only ask the man to move along.
"There was no violation of law that we could enforce. There was nothing we could charge him with," Alexander said.
It's late. Could someone explain what I'm missing?
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Here is what I get from this, and it still seems lame to me.
Man looks at kid, enjoys it. Police can't arrest him for just looking so they wrote a new law to protect kids from having old pervs looking at kids. What this actually entails is if someone is watching them to make sure they are not doing something wrong the adult can be put in jail.
Posted by: exsulis | May 4, 2008 11:53 PM