BangBros Accused of Underage Porn

[lol1990]

I just found something that shocked me to the core! http://miaminewtimes.com/news/ba...e-porn-6393964

[lol1990]

How did they get out of it? Why aren't they in jail?

[Namcot]

Read the article.

These are the reason why they aren't in jail.

Just like anything other crime including murder, for it to go to trial, the prosecution has to be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt for them to convict anyone.

But when cops showed up at the Venetian Productions studio, owner Olivier Caudron pleaded his innocence. He showed Miami-Dade Police photocopies of the ID Amber had used, as well as the forms she signed. As cops were talking to Caudron, Amber arrived at the studio for a shoot.

Confronted by police, she initially insisted she was the 19-year-old on the license. Finally, she broke down and copped to the fraud. She told the officers that no one at Venetian — not even Snavely, whom she had been dating off-set — knew her real age.

Cops interviewed Cubillos, the talent agent, but he denied knowing Amber was a minor. Caudron pulled her videos from the websites. And three assistant state attorneys — Brad Sturges, Brenda Mezick, and Griska Mena — advised detectives they could not charge anyone with a crime.

Florida statutes say "ignorance of a minor's age, a minor's misrepresentation of his or her age, a bona fide belief of a minor's age, or a minor's consent may not be raised as a defense in a prosecution for [child pornography]." Yet it's often a "proof problem," says Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office spokesman Ed Griffith. "Prosecutors have an ethical responsibility to believe they have sufficient evidence to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. Lacking such evidence, it is unethical for a prosecutor to go forward."

Instead, Greenberg's attorneys came to a secret agreement with Amber's mother. The family was given an undisclosed amount of money in exchange for keeping quiet about the sordid underage sex affair. Snavely, meanwhile, was fired.

[alexora]

The staff should endeavour to identify the girl and the scenes she performed in, and remove them from the Planet if they have been posted here.

Also, they should issue a prohibition notice warning members to to post them here.

[Johnny Cage]

How exactly do porn producers check the age of their performers?
ID can be faked. Or do they ask for birth certificates? That seems like the only way to be pretty sure.

[bill_az]

Originally Posted by lol1990

I just found something that shocked me to the core! http://miaminewtimes.com/news/ba...e-porn-6393964

Why the fuck is this so shocking to you? Have you ever heard of Traci Lords?

RK & BB have had this problem before, ala Bieyanka More and others. And what kind of "sexy" name is Snavely? If someone should make up a porn name, it should have been him. Fuckup.

[Neltharion]

While it is despicable if the guy did it in full knowledge of the fact, there's also 2 aspects that need to be taken in consideration.

Apart from their birth certificate, like another poster said, there's no surefire way to verify a girl's age. A lot of 16-ish girls can pass for 18 or more nowadays. And secondly, unless the girl is brain dead she would know pornography with minors is illegal pretty much everywhere. If she went into it willingly just for a payday, she bears some of the blame as well.

[alexora]

Originally Posted by Johnny Cage

How exactly do porn producers check the age of their performers?
ID can be faked. Or do they ask for birth certificates? That seems like the only way to be pretty sure.

Traci Lords was given a fake birth certificate by a woman to whom she was introduced by Roger Hayes, her mother's boyfriend who was a cocaine dealer who also sexually molested her when she was a child.

She used that fake birth certificate to get a driver's license and used that as her ID when shooting underage porn.

[carolina73]

No surprise. This sounds like a young girl that later had regrets. This is why there are age of consent laws. I would like to hear the defense and if a fake ID was. However a 18 year old can also have regrets and make false claims that she was duped calling it rape.