Is bottom-pinching still 'indecent' by today's community standards?
- Written by Hadeel Al-Alosi, Lecturer, School of Law, Western Sydney University
It wasn’t okay to touch people inappropriately in the 1970s and 80s, and it still isn’t now.Elen Tkacheva/Shutterstock
In a recent court case in Western Australia, Magistrate Michelle Ridley ruled that “in an era of twerking” and easy access to pornography, it was not an indecent assault when a police officer pinched a...
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