I'm an Elvis fan...and refuse to believe he preyed on children...but thats me!!

Yes we would be...if we knowingly knew they were under 18!!

The guy in question is being victimized by the terrified public....no one wants him living in their part of the state...

He should never have been let out and that is all there is to it!!!

I thought that in some european states the legal age was 16?


Heres another question, what if your 15 or 16 and looking at nude pictures of women that are your age? does that make you a pedo?

The legal age of consent is 14 in the Netherlands, 13 in some parts of Spain I think, and sixteen in the UK.

I'm not saying that Elvis "preyed" on children/teenagers/young adults. I just think that he would have been happy in the Netherlands.

I like his music, but I have to say that I have always had nothing but contempt for older people who go for much younger/sexually immature people. What is their problem? Give me a sexually mature and confident woman any day.

Children need to be protected at all costs. There are so many different ways in which evil/sick/twisted individuals can harm and exploit them. Any form of child abuse must be acted on. My kids are aware of the dangers--but u can't be with them 100% of the time--and evil doesn't always wear black!

If Elvis had been an Australian, he would have been a paedophile, as he wasn't he isn't. But there is a little difficulty here surely?

Don't you have different ages of consent across the US?

We have different ages of consent for sex, but there's a categorical limit of 18 for posing for pornography.

It's caused some interesting court cases such as one in Utah where a scumbag had sex with a girl. He also took pictures of it. When it ended up in court he was arguing how can the sex be legal but to take a picture of it (they were not published) not be? (The prosecution was trying to throw the book at him since the blackmail charge wasn't enough to make them happy.) We moved before I found out how it came out.

HALLOOOOOO......PEOPLE...!!!!! Why isn't anyone talking of child prostitution?

I guess that most of us don't know anything about it.

But I hope that there is a special place for those who create the market for those so desperate to take their money.

Remeber, Priscilla was 15 when she began "dating" Elvis.

I have little to say about the Pete Townsend issue at this time. I am a firm believer in "innocent until proven guilty." Unfortunately, the media (such as CNN) love to ostracize people long before there is even sufficient evidence to proceed with criminal charges. I will wait until the entire story unfolds, and all of the factual evidence is presented before I pass judgment myself.

As for his story of "research", it is plausible yet questionable as well. Of course, we should not be misled by thinking he should have gone to "real researchers" because many of them are loose screws.

If he's guilty of viewing child porn, I say tear out his eyes. If he's guilty of child sexual abuse, slowly tear off his balls. But if he's truly an innocent victim with a lapse in judgment, exonerate him.

As for O.J., I strongly believe that he IS guilty of murder.
As for Michael Jackson, I do not believe that he molested the child he was accused of molesting.

But those are topics for another time/forum.

i was looking at webcam pics on Kazaa today and there was child porn to download. ick.

Sharniqua:

Don't get me wrong! I don't believe that Elvis was a "mean paedophile." I am a big fan of the KING myself. I was merely making a point. Besides, he married her and was with her for quite some time. That is definitely different than preying on children. But don't be deceived by parental consent, that does not make it right. Besides, back then, what parent wouldn't let their daughter marry Elvis?