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Pictures of nude boys 'not indecent'
PICTURES of naked boys taken at a naturist camp site in Rugby are not indecent, a jury has decided.
Naturist John Peters, 41, of Kelsull Croft, Chelmsley Wood, had denied seven charges of having indecent photographs of children.
And after two-and-a-half hours the jury at Warwick Crown Court found him not guilty of all seven charges.
Catherine Spedding, prosecuting, said a total of 48 photographs were taken from Peters' home by the police in January last year, seven of which were alleged to be indecent.
"The law says that mere nakedness, if it was within an appropriate setting, is not in itself indecent. It needs something more, such as erotic posing or not being in an appropriate setting."
She said the pictures were of two 11-year-old boys and a 14-year-old, in a sauna and a swimming pool.
Peters told the court he has been a naturist for a number of years, and the pictures were taken in 1999 at Lodge Farm, Rugby.
He denied there was any erotic posing, saying of one that it was 'just a naturist photograph' of people in the group with whom he had gone to Lodge Farm.
Mr. Ward suggested to the jury: "There is nothing erotic about them. They are just boys having their photographs taken. If they had trunks on, you would not give it a second thought."
And Judge Marten Coates told the jury: "The test you have to adopt for each photograph is whether right-thinking people would consider it to be indecent."
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