Woman Received Oral Sex In Parked Car - Charged With Crime Against Nature

[matcom]

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NEWPORT NEWS -- A woman charged under the state's felony crimes against nature law pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of indecent exposure Thursday.

Keia Horton, 22, had initially planned to challenge the constitutionality of the law, which prohibits certain types of sex between consenting adults. She said she decided to plead to the lesser charge to avoid the possibility of a felony conviction.

"I didn't want to go through with it," Horton said after the brief hearing in Newport News Circuit Court. "I didn't want to go to jail."

Horton was charged on Jan. 29 by a police officer who found her in a parked car on Constance Drive receiving oral sex from a man. She and 29-year-old Kenneth Lars were both charged with a felony under the statute for crimes against nature. The statute says people can't have oral or anal sex, whether homosexual or heterosexual, but the law doesn't specify whether the sex is illegal in public or in private.

Lars pleaded guilty to indecent exposure at a preliminary hearing in March. But Horton, who was offered a plea agreement at that time, wanted to fight the law. Her lawyer, David Lee, planned to argue that the charge is unconstitutional because the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a Texas case that states can't pass laws that restrict the private sex lives of consenting adults.

http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-33802sy0jun25,0,6363696.story

[sus]

1. that does it. I don't want to live in a country where you can't have

oral sex in a car...

i'm PACKIN' MY BAGS, people!

[Bonhomme Richard]

18. Hah! Canadiens, Is oral sex legal in Canada? n/t

[GOPisEvil]

2. Should all of these laws have been removed thanks to the Texas case?

:shrug:

[DBtv]

3. I thought "Virginia is for lovers".

Guess not.

[King Of Paperboys]

4. What could BE more natural?

Crime against nature??? What, did nature file a complaint?

Stoopid fundies.

[Bozita]

5. Whatever happened to "Virginia is for Lovers"?

[matcom]

6. Virginia IS for lovers! Just not Vaginally apparently

:shrug:

[SarahB]

7. Holy cow!

Good thing I wasn't in Virginia last Valentine's Day. :7

[demnan]

8. I must confess

I've committed a felony in Virginia. Lock me up . . . .

[dawg]

13. I've been to Virginia twice ...

I bet I've broken that law, too.

[NewJeffCT]

9. the last line

something about how they can't come up to your house with a flashlight...

watch out Keia, Johnny Ashcroft may do just that.

[BigMcLargehuge]

10. "Nature could not be reached for comment..."

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Wouldn't nature need to press charges first?

Since it was apparently "nature" against whom the crime was committed? If so, then the Christian fundies are stuck in a bind - either admit that oral sex isn't a crime against nature, or else admit that nature is a living entity (which would thus require that we love and respect it and take care of it and stop dumping chick tracts into landfills)

HA HA!!

[dawg]

12. Virginia IS for lovers!

Boring-ass, plain vanilla, missionary position with the lights off lovers. (And please, no moans or heavy breathing, you might wake the kids!):spank:

[WI_DEM]

14. people just have to be more careful when they are having

oral sex in a car.

[Maestro]

15. Crimes against Nature?

:shrug: What is unnatural about it? Oh well, I be a felon!

[noonwitch]

16. It was in a car-automobiles aren't part of "nature"

Just kidding.

I hate it that they charged the offense in that way, but I do think that people shouldn't be having sex in public and depending on where the car is, it could be public. But public sex still shouldn't be considered "a crime against nature".

[Bossy Monkey]

17. "What are you in for?" "Rugmunchin'" n/t