A sex offender is the first person in England and Wales to be convicted under a new cyber-flashing law. He has been sentenced to more than five years in prison.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/GvxNr
A sex offender is the first person in England and Wales to be convicted under a new cyber-flashing law. He has been sentenced to more than five years in prison.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/GvxNr
It feels like something that should fall under existing sexual harassment laws at least, but probably doesn’t because of specific wording that requires a physical act, removing photo/video as qualifying.
Unfortunately, I don’t think many jurisdictions take flashing seriously whatever the medium. It’s known to be an early warning sign of much more serious sexual offending but police treat it as a bit of a laugh, boys will be boys, nothing to see here.
Dismissing indecent exposure as ‘flashing’ led to the murder of Sarah Everard