DALLAS (AP) - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is being asked
for an opinion on a law that a Dallas-area woman says let her
ex-husband show their children pornography.
     
Public indecency laws provide certain exceptions for parents and
guardians when it comes to the sale, distribution or display of
material considered harmful to minors.
     
KTVT-TV reports the viewing involving a computer and sex acts
allegedly happened in February when her three girls were with their
father in Amarillo.
     
Two girls, ages 8 and 9, later told a counselor during a therapy
session in Plano.
     
The mother contacted Amarillo police, who referred the matter to
Randall County District Attorney James Farren in an effort to bring
charges against her former spouse.
     
Farren in mid-September contacted Abbott's office. AG spokesman
Jerry Strickland said the office is going through the opinions
process.
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Information from: KTVT-TV, http://www.cbs11tv.com
     
Information from: Dallas Morning News, www.dallasnews.com
     
     
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