{"id":7383,"date":"2019-11-21T11:21:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T16:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2019-11-21T11:21:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T16:21:55","slug":"utah-mom-in-court-charged-with-sex-crime-after-her-kids-saw-her-topless-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/utah-mom-in-court-charged-with-sex-crime-after-her-kids-saw-her-topless-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah mom in court, charged with sex crime after her kids saw her topless at home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Tilli-Buchanan-2-YouTube.jpg\" alt=\"Ace News Today - Utah mom in court, charged with child sex crime after her kids saw her topless\" class=\"wp-image-7384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Tilli-Buchanan-2-YouTube.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Tilli-Buchanan-2-YouTube-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Tilli-Buchanan-2-YouTube-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Tilli-Buchanan-2-YouTube-730x458.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Tilli-Buchanan-2-YouTube-435x273.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><figcaption> Tilli Buchanan in court on Nov. 19,\u00a0 Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCDmNmxF3ZVMeGyvWE9tOqPQ\">ABC13 Houston<\/a> \/ YouTube <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Tilli\nBuchanan, a 28-year-old mom from Utah is being vilified in the courts because\nher stepchildren saw her topless. The incident happened over a year ago in the privacy\nof the woman\u2019s home.&nbsp; Buchanan is now\nappearing in court in an attempt to stay off the sex offender\u2019s registry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February, Buchanan was charged with three counts of misdemeanor lewdness involving a child. Those charges came after child welfare officials began an investigation involving the kids that wasn&#8217;t tied to Buchanan &#8211; and after the children&#8217;s biological mother reported the incident to authorities because she was &#8220;alarmed.&#8221;\u00a0 ~ <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tilli-buchanan-utah-woman-could-be-forced-to-register-as-sex-offender-after-kids-see-her-topless-at-home\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buchanan and her attorneys are trying to get the charges against\nher overturned, arguing that a portion of the lewdness law as it pertains to\nBuchanan is unconstitutional.&nbsp; Prosecutors,\nmeanwhile, are arguing that \u201cnudity is commonly understood to include women&#8217;s\nbreasts in American society and that courts have upheld laws based on morality.\u201d&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buchanan\nwas in court on November 19.&nbsp; The judge\nhearing the case postponed any final decisions on the matter saying that the\nissues involved were all too important, and that her final ruling would take a\nfew months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legal woes for Buchanan began when she and her husband were working in their garage hanging drywall and took their shirts off so their clothes wouldn\u2019t get dirty and dusty.\u00a0 Their three kids, ages nine, 10 and 13, walked into the garage and saw both of their parents \u201ctopless.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the kids asked\nwhy mom wasn\u2019t wearing a shirt, she replied: \u201cThis isn\u2019t\na sexual thing,\u201d she recalled telling the children. \u201cI should be able to wear\nexactly what my husband wears. You shouldn\u2019t be embarrassed about this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the children\u2019s biological\nmother heard about the incident, she mentioned it to children\u2019s services,\nsaying she was \u201calarmed\u201d, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/utah-stepmom-went-topless-in-front-of-stepkids-now-facing-charges-authorities-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cWhat\u2019s important to look at, to see when you look at the statute, is that there\u2019s part of it that says this part of a woman is inherently obscene and this part of a man isn\u2019t,\u201d said Leah Farrell, the senior attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah who argued on Buchanan\u2019s behalf. <\/em><br><br><em>\u201cAnd that really sets up an unequal, unfair dichotomy.\u201d\u00a0 ~ <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/utah\/2019\/11\/19\/20973049\/utah-law-banning-toplessness-for-women-is-unconstitutional-attorneys-say\" target=\"_blank\">Deseret News<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tilli Buchanan&#39;s attorney argued her husband was also without a shirt, yet he was not charged with any crime.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r0aEqeicon\">https:\/\/t.co\/r0aEqeicon<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Salt Lake Tribune (@sltrib) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sltrib\/status\/1196969884120440837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Supporters of Buchanan, and most media outlets, are quick to\nreport that although the father was also topless, he isn\u2019t facing any charges.&nbsp; If found guilty on the three counts of misdemeanor lewdness involving a child,\nthe Utah mom would have to register as a sex\noffender for a period of 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more on the\nstory, see the video accompanying this article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Woman who took off shirt, bra to hang drywall faces charges\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tNBctYSUMEA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>~ Posted by: Richard Webster, Ace News Today&nbsp;\n&nbsp;\/&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;Follow Richard on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/richard.webster.31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><em>Facebook<\/em><\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rdwebster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><em>Twitter<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If convicted of \u2018lewdness involving a child,\u2019 Tilli Buchanan, 28, will be forced to register as a sex offender for 10 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1725,40,217,11],"tags":[4567,964,4568,189],"class_list":["post-7383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-courts","category-injustice","category-lifestyle","category-strange-news","category-top-news","tag-misdemeanor-lewdness-involving-a-child","tag-sex-offenders","tag-tilli-buchanan","tag-utah","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7387,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions\/7387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}