Sex and the law

A 34-year-old man has been arrested in northern Greece on charges of peddling child pornography over the internet, authorities said Wednesday.

An incest debate is still going on in Turkey, amid all the other political and diplomatic issues facing President Tayyip Erdoğan.

It all started with a news report two weeks ago. A half-famous, minor jet-set TV personality called Murat Başoğlu was "caught" by paparazzi in a boat off the Aegean coast cavorting with a woman who is not his wife.

Australia plans to ban convicted pedophiles from traveling overseas in what the government said Tuesday is a world-first move to protect vulnerable children in Southeast Asia from exploitation.
Australian pedophiles are notorious for taking inexpensive vacations to nearby Southeast Asian and Pacific island countries to abuse children there.

The Turkish parliament's General Assembly has passed a code that would increase sentences meted out to sexual abusers on Nov. 24. 

According to the new code, child sexual abusers will be sentenced to jail between eight and 15 years. The sentence will be between three to eight years if no rape is in question.  

The sexy outfits worn by the ladies in the outdoors ‘prostitution industry’, or lack therieof, is their selling point to potential customers. Unfortunately for the women, this might be about to change on a main road in Milan, Italy. The girls will be compelled to swap their clothes for reflective protection jackets and trousers, or face a 500 Euro fine.

Christina Cortez, 38, is accused of producing child pornography at the Texas day care where she worked. The former day care worker distributed child pornography to a fugitive sex offender Matthew Harbin, aged 29. She was arrested after images of at least one child being sexually abused was found in her possession.

The Greek police cyber crime squad announced the cracking of an internet pornography case involving a young girl, aged 17, as the victim. The investigation was launched after the mother of the young girl reported that her daughter had been talking to strangers on social media and had, at some point, sent racy photographs.

Incest could be made legal in Germany following a meeting of the German Ethics Council studying the case of Patrick Stuebing who was adopted and then later fell in love with his biological sister. The couple had four children before Stuebing was imprisoned in 2008 though he appealed to the European Court of Human Rights over his entitlement to a family life in 2012.

Five arrested for child pornography

BELGRADE -- Five persons have been placed under arrest for possession of a large amount of pornographic material made through the abuse of children and minors.