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01-23-2007, 07:38 PM
Graphic Rape Scenes of 12-year-old Dakota Fanning in New Film Call for Federal Investigation
NEW YORK, January 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Sundance Film Festival opens today, and on January 22 a film starring 12-year-old actress Dakota Fanning will debut. The movie, 'Hounddog,' is described in the current edition of Premiere magazine as featuring 'a devastating rape by an older boy.' On January 16, Allan Colmes on 'Hannity and Colmes' said, 'In the film, 12-year-old Fanning plays a sexually promiscuous character who's physically abused by her father and eventually raped on screen in a violently graphic scene.'
Canada's Globe and Mail said today of Fanning, 'her character is violently raped and appears, at different times, either naked or in underpants.' Other sources say it is uncertain whether a mutual masturbation scene featuring other minors will be shown.
The Catholic League is calling for a federal investigation of the upcoming movie to see if federal child pornography laws were violated during the shootings. "It is unclear whether federal child pornography statutes have been broken in the course of filming this movie," said Catholic League president Bill Donohue.
Donohue dismissed the approval of the material by Fanning's caregivers. "It matters not a whit whether Fanning's mother, along with Fanning's teacher/child welfare worker, gave their consent. What matters is whether they are an accessory to a crime."
"Accordingly, I am asking Andrew Oosterbaan, Chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section within the Department of Justice's Criminal Division, to investigate this matter. Federal statutes on child pornography define a minor as anyone younger than 18; Fanning is a pre-teen. I am also writing to First Lady Laura Bush requesting her assistance in this endeavor. In today's New York Times, it says that Mrs. Bush, along with the First Ladies from France, Russia and Egypt, met yesterday 'to discuss the fight against child pornography and pedophilia.'"
The sexualisation of children is becoming more commonplace and pro-family observers view it as part of the ongoing normalization of pedophilia.
To express concerns contact Oosterbaan at Andrew.Oosterbaan@usdoj.gov
See related coverage:
Normalizing Pedophilia Continues: UK Police Chief Says 13-Year-Old in Porn Not Child Porn
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/nov/06112007.html ;
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jan/07011807.html
NEW YORK, January 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Sundance Film Festival opens today, and on January 22 a film starring 12-year-old actress Dakota Fanning will debut. The movie, 'Hounddog,' is described in the current edition of Premiere magazine as featuring 'a devastating rape by an older boy.' On January 16, Allan Colmes on 'Hannity and Colmes' said, 'In the film, 12-year-old Fanning plays a sexually promiscuous character who's physically abused by her father and eventually raped on screen in a violently graphic scene.'
Canada's Globe and Mail said today of Fanning, 'her character is violently raped and appears, at different times, either naked or in underpants.' Other sources say it is uncertain whether a mutual masturbation scene featuring other minors will be shown.
The Catholic League is calling for a federal investigation of the upcoming movie to see if federal child pornography laws were violated during the shootings. "It is unclear whether federal child pornography statutes have been broken in the course of filming this movie," said Catholic League president Bill Donohue.
Donohue dismissed the approval of the material by Fanning's caregivers. "It matters not a whit whether Fanning's mother, along with Fanning's teacher/child welfare worker, gave their consent. What matters is whether they are an accessory to a crime."
"Accordingly, I am asking Andrew Oosterbaan, Chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section within the Department of Justice's Criminal Division, to investigate this matter. Federal statutes on child pornography define a minor as anyone younger than 18; Fanning is a pre-teen. I am also writing to First Lady Laura Bush requesting her assistance in this endeavor. In today's New York Times, it says that Mrs. Bush, along with the First Ladies from France, Russia and Egypt, met yesterday 'to discuss the fight against child pornography and pedophilia.'"
The sexualisation of children is becoming more commonplace and pro-family observers view it as part of the ongoing normalization of pedophilia.
To express concerns contact Oosterbaan at Andrew.Oosterbaan@usdoj.gov
See related coverage:
Normalizing Pedophilia Continues: UK Police Chief Says 13-Year-Old in Porn Not Child Porn
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/nov/06112007.html ;
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jan/07011807.html