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Pee-wee Prosecutors: It's Still Porn
You can slap a fancy label on it, but porn is still porn, according to Los Angeles prosecutors.
This week, the City Attorney's office went to court to officially oppose Paul Reubens' bid to have his kiddie-porn case dismissed, disputing the quantity and quality of the actor's kinky art collection.
An attorney for Reubens had filed a motion to dismiss last month based on lack of hard evidence. Blair Berk further argued that the items seized from Reubens' Hollywood Hills home were simply "a vast and valuable historical collection of artwork," "kitsch memorabilia" and "vintage books, magazines and photographs."
But in court documents submitted Tuesday (and subsequently published on the Smoking Gun Website), prosecutors for the first time elaborated on what exactly was confiscated from the actor's residence in November 2001 and why they believe the former children's TV icon broke the law.
Deputy City Attorney Richard Kraft disputed Berk's claims of a "historical collection" consisting of "a single vintage film," "isolated images" and "vintage magazines."
Instead, the "vintage film" and "series of vintage film clips" is described by prosecutors as a "massive" library of porn movies of teenage boys engaged in "masturbation and various other sex acts," while the "isolated images" are "sexually explicit magazines" with titles like 101 Boys, Hot 'n Hung, Young and Ready and Teen Nudes.
Reubens, 50, was arrested and charged with a single misdemeanor count of possessing child pornography last November.
He is currently free on $20,000 bail and has pleaded innocent to the charge. Superior Court Judge C.H. Rehm will consider the motion to dismiss the charge during a February 21 hearing.
In their bid to get the erstwhile Pee-wee off the hook, the defense has attempted to characterize Reubens as a supersize pack rat who bought much of his stash sight unseen. Prosecutors are now trying to determine just how much kiddie-porn is among the 30,000 pictures and 650 hours of film seized during the search and how aware Reubens was of its content.
Sifting through the collection has turned up "thousands of photos of young men in sexual poses, displaying erections, masturbating and engaging in sexual acts," according to prosecution documents, plus home movies "of young men masturbating for the video camera."
In addition, the defense's strategy was to argue that the alleged kiddie-porn items in Reubens' collection were produced before a 1989 California law made such materials illegal.
But Reubens' attorneys better come up with another approach, say prosecutors, who claim that all child porn is criminal without exception to the date it was created or duplicated.
The original raid on Reubens' domicile was part of general sweep, which also netted fellow thespian Jeffrey Jones (best known as principal Ed Rooney in the '86 teen classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off).
Jones, 55, was also busted by police last November after an unidentified teenage boy told authorities that Jones used him for "alleged criminal acts of a sexual nature," said LAPD spokesman Don Cox. Jones has pleaded innocent to felony and misdemeanor counts alleging he hired the boy for an X-rated photo shoot. He remains free on $20,000 bail.
Reubens, whose case is unrelated to Jones', claimed that he was the victim of a financially motivated smear campaign.
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