Attention Pedophiles:

It's okay to take pictures up the skirts of 16-year old girls, as long as you're in a public place.

That's the message handed down by the Oklahoma State Court of Criminal Appeals:

The state Court of Criminal Appeals voted 4-1 in favor of Riccardo Gino Ferrante, who was arrested in 2006 for situating a camera underneath the girl's skirt at a Target store and taking photographs.

Ferrante, now 34, was charged under a "Peeping Tom" statute that requires the victim to be "in a place where there is a right to a reasonable expectation of privacy." Testimony indicated he followed the girl, knelt down behind her and placed the camera under her skirt.

In January 2007, Tulsa County District Judge Tom Gillert ordered Ferrante's felony charge dismissed. That was based upon a determination that "the person photographed was not in a place where she had a reasonable expectation of privacy," according to the appellate ruling issued last week.

The District Attorney's Office had appealed Gillert's ruling to the Court of Criminal Appeals.

"We agree with the district court's analysis," stated the opinion written by Appeals Judge Charles Johnson, with Judges Charles Chapel, David Lewis and Arlene Johnson concurring.

In what was certainly a minority appeal for sanity,

Appeals Judge Gary Lumpkin wrote that "what this decision does is state to women who desire to wear dresses that there is no expectation of privacy as to what they have covered with their dress."

"In other words, it is open season for peeping Toms in public places who want to look under a woman's dress," Lumpkin wrote.

He said he found the majority's finding of no reasonable expectation of privacy "interesting and disturbing."

These lower-than-scum judges are no doubt the same liberal ACLU-types who, basking in the mindset of sexification of young girls, allowed unlimited access to pornography in public libraries, struck down parental involvement through the negation of parental notification laws, and have been largely responsible for statistics like these. These bastards, who supposedly took oaths that they would protect the public good, need to be summarily removed from their positions of public trust and thrown out of office on their collective ears.

They themselves have set the stage for further victimization of women in general, and minors in particular; and they themselves will have the blood of and/or the permanent emotional scarring of young girls on their hands as a result.

Bastards.

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