A Windsor woman has been convicted, fined, and put on probation for a year after pleading guilty to committing indecent acts in local libraries for a series of live internet broadcasts.
The penalty, which includes adding her DNA to a national databank, seems too steep given the non-violent nature of the offence. Alexa Morra, 22, admitted her behaviour was wrong because children might have been exposed to the obscenity.
But nobody was exposed, except by choice if they sought out her performances online. And she turned herself in willingly, and pled guilty. Why then the long probation and the lifetime criminal record, which now permanently bans her from visiting the U.S.? Why the DNA registry for someone who is not really a sex offender?
The punishment seems disproportionate in a country where nudity and prostitution is legal and serious weapons and assault charges can also result in probation. The fine and a symbolic, non-criminal slap on the wrist should have sufficed for a first offence.
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