For Star subscribers: Police warn Arizona lawmakers and parents that real children's photos are being lifted from social media for use on sex dolls.
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — Arizona lawmakers are moving to make it illegal to sell or possess sex dolls with the faces of real children, as investigators warn that children's photos are being lifted from social media.
People are also reading… Scaled back over First Amendment The proposed legislation isn't as broad as originally proposed by Reps. Selina Bliss and Quang Nguyen. The new version awaiting a Senate roll-call vote keeps the essence but with a key distinction: It would only be illegal if the doll"uses the face, image or likeness of a real infant or minor who is under 12 years of age.''
"Gateway" for predatorsSnyder said that isn't illegal under federal law because"there's no actual harm to a real child,'' particularly if the image cannot be linked to an actual child. Sometimes the dolls have more generic or computer-generated faces, he said. "So now, we're not talking about a made-up, non-existent person,'' Kavanagh said."We're talking about an actual real person digital image.''Bliss disagreed."That 2002 Supreme Court decision on digital art porn is indeed a First Amendment right of free speech,'' the Prescott Republican told lawmakers."But this, folks, is not digital art.''
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