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CLEAR Initiative Symposium - Sex Crimes Panel Live Blog

By Corey Rayburnyung

My comments are in italics. Everything else can be attributed in paraphrase to the speaker. First up is Terri Mascherin: She says they cheated by putting "sex crimes" in the title and says that is probably why most of the people in the the audience are here. She does say that a fair amount of what she plans to talk about has nothing to do with sex crimes (I'll leave out the non-sex-crime related material). She starts with a quiz about what is and is not a crime. The first question is whether open adultery is a crime in Illinois? The answer is "yes." She later mentions that fornication is another crime that has been on the books in the state (which says that Oprah and Stedman are engaging in a criminal relationship). The roots of these laws are out of Scarlet Letter times when moral codes about sexual relations were implemented...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on April 18, 2008 (boomark / email).