{"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
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Tilli Buchanan in court on Nov. 19,\u00a0 Image credit: ABC13 Houston<\/a> \/ YouTube <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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.  Buchanan is now\nappearing in court in an attempt to stay off the sex offender\u2019s registry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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’t tied to Buchanan – and after the children’s biological mother reported the incident to authorities because she was “alarmed.”\u00a0 ~ CBS News<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.  Prosecutors,\nmeanwhile, are arguing that \u201cnudity is commonly understood to include women’s\nbreasts in American society and that courts have upheld laws based on morality.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buchanan\nwas in court on November 19.  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

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

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

After the children\u2019s biological\nmother heard about the incident, she mentioned it to children\u2019s services,\nsaying she was \u201calarmed\u201d, according to Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\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>

\u201cAnd that really sets up an unequal, unfair dichotomy.\u201d\u00a0 ~ Deseret News<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Tilli Buchanan's attorney argued her husband was also without a shirt, yet he was not charged with any crime.https:\/\/t.co\/r0aEqeicon<\/a><\/p>— The Salt Lake Tribune (@sltrib) November 20, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>