ROME, Italy, June 2 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In striking similarity to Canada’s BC provincial court, which recently ruled possession of child porn to be legal, Italy’s highest court of appeal has ruled that pedophiles can take pornographic photos of children as long as they are not sold for profit. The Times reports that the Court of Cassation in Rome upheld the acquittal by a court in Turin of Antonio B., 45, over photographs that he took when he forced a youth of 13 to carry out sexual acts.
In a similar decision in Oregon, courts have ruled that a law that prohibits adults from furnishing minors with sexually explicit materials violates the Oregon Constitution’s free speech protections. Pedophiles use pornographic material in enticing minors into sex.