Article from The Daily Wire by Hank Berrien.
On Tuesday, attorneys for a Utah woman who “considers herself a feminist” and was charged in February with with three counts of misdemeanor lewdness after going bare-breasted in front of her stepchildren, asked a judge to dismiss the charges and change a Utah law, as The Salt Lake Tribune reported. If Tilli Buchanan, who was bare-breasted in front of children ranging from nine to 13 years old, is convicted of the charge, she could be required to register as a sex offender for 10 years.
Buchanan’s attorneys contend that the Utah law under which Buchanan is charged is unjust because it views men and women who go bare-chested differently, as Buchanan’s husband had joined her to strip down after installing insulation in their garage and he was not charged with a crime.
ACLU of Utah attorney Leah Farrell stated, “In the statute, there’s one part of it that says this part of a woman is found inherently obscene and this part of a man isn’t. That really sets up an unequal and unfair dichotomy. And Tilli’s case is something none of us would expect to happen to us.” She argued that the law, which avers that it is illegal to expose your breasts privately if a child would suffer “affront or alarm,” would require women to perform a “mental calculation” as to whether their actions would cause alarm, adding that a man would not have to do so. She concluded, “It’s unfair to take stereotypes and create an unequal burden on women.”
Randy Richards, Buchanan’s defense attorney, warned, “If we lose this, she’s on the sex offender registry with child rapists and things of that nature. The magnitude of the penalty on this is enormous.”
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The charge is not “odd” at all. Such behavior should be punished; she got what she deserved.
So, if a woman is preparing to take a shower, for example, and one of her children’s lets out a bloody scream, she should wait until she’s dressed to go see what’s happened???? Grow up. She did nothing wrong.
Stupid woman. Disgusting behavior. No one wants to see her bare torso. I hope she’s found guilty & has to register as a sex offender. It’s terrible how children are being exposed to lewdness and things like this these days!
Perhaps wearing “spinners” might mitigate her crime.
I think someone’s making a mountain out of a c-cup here.
It wouldn’t have bothered me, but to children I’m not sure how I would feel. I do understand where the attorney is trying to come from but totally different anatomy here. Not sure I agree with the sex offender registration though. Kind of a fine line IMO
Who filed the complaint? This is fake news.