A Hollywood film containing nude scenes and a rape scene involving a minor has come under heavy criticism from Catholic groups [ Catholic League].
The controversy surrounds the film Hounddog starring 12-year-old Dakota Fanning as a sexually promiscuous child who is sexually abused by her father and raped by an older boy.
"It is unclear whether federal child pornography statutes have been broken in the course of filming this movie,” the United States Catholic League president Bill Donohue said. “It matters not a whit whether Fanning's mother, along with Fanning's teacher/child welfare worker, gave their consent. What matters is whether they are an accessory to a crime.”
Donohue is famous for denying the priest abuse scandal claiming that the crisis in the Catholic Church was "a homosexual scandal, not a paedophilia scandal" and later claimed that "It's homosexuals" who are responsible for the abuse [ GLAAD].
“Federal statutes on child pornography define a minor as anyone younger than 18; Fanning is a pre-teen,” he added. “I am also writing to First Lady Laura Bush requesting her assistance in this endeavour.”
