Similarly, 14-year-old Jodie Foster, wearing revealing clothing, played a pre-teen prostitute in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver.
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When actress and model Brooke Shields was 15 years old, for instance, she appeared in a racy Calvin Klein jean advertisement featuring the memorable line, "Nothing comes between me and my Calvins." Shields also appeared nude at 12 years old in an Oscar-nominated movie called Pretty Baby that was set in a New Orleans brothel. Magistrate Judge Robert Armstrong.īecause no sex or nudity is involved, the prosecutions raise unusual First Amendment concerns that stretch beyond mere modeling-related Web sites: children and teens in various degrees of undress appear in everything from newspaper underwear advertisements to the covers of Seventeen and Vogue. An arraignment for Pierson has been scheduled for December 14 before U.S. Attorney's Office in the northern district of Alabama, confirmed to CNET that no nudity was involved. Richard Jaffe, Pierson's attorney, said he could not immediately comment because he was in court on Wednesday. Parents appear to have given their consent. But copies saved in Google's cache and through show the photographs in question depicted girls wearing everything from sweaters to, more frequently, swimsuits and midriff-baring attire. The Web sites that prompted the indictments are now offline. This is a far cry from what folks normally think of as child pornography." "The best I can say is that it's puzzling that they would devote investigative and law enforcement resources to something (like this). "I don't know what the DOJ's trying," said Lee Tien, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group. An August article in The New York Times, for instance, called the modeling Web sites "the latest trend in child exploitation."
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Postal Inspection Service investigation of so-called child modeling sites, which have been the subject of a series of critical congressional hearings and news reports in the last few years. Pierson's child pornography indictment arises out of an FBI and U.S. attorney for the northern district of Alabama, said in a statement. "The images charged are not legitimate child modeling, but rather lascivious poses one would expect to see in an adult magazine," Alice Martin, U.S. Rather, they argue, his models struck poses that were illegally provocative. Department of Justice accused Pierson, 43, of being a child pornographer-even though even prosecutors acknowledge there's no evidence he has ever taken a single photograph of an unclothed minor. In a federal indictment announced this week, the U.S. Pierson's Web site boasted he has the "most wonderful wife in the world and two fantastic daughters." And until recently, he ran a business called Beautiful Super Models that charged $175 for portraits of aspiring models under 18. Jeff Pierson is a photographer whose action shots of hopped-up American autos laying waste to the asphalt at Alabama dragways have appeared in racing magazines and commercial advertisements.
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