State v. Helgoth

GUNN, Judge.

Defendant appeals his conviction for abuse of a child, § 568.060, RSMo 1978.1 In light of defendant’s challenges to the validity of that statute, we have jurisdiction of this appeal. Mo. Const, art. V, § 3. We affirm.

Defendant was convicted of photographing a child less than seventeen years old engaging in a “prohibited sexual act” within the meaning of § 568.060. He took posed photographs of a girl under seventeen, focusing on her uncovered breasts and vagina. That section, as pertinent, makes it illegal to photograph a child less than seventeen years old engaging in “nudity, if…