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I just wanted to repeat a sub-comment I made on this article's Deletion review: this article can be expanded to include it's interpretation by the courts (For example). I put it to some enterprising editor to put together an interesting article on the world of scienter. --Bobak 18:45, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This definitely shouldn't be deleted. I searched for it here after finding the term used in an article describing the intricacies of case law surrounding Ohio's position on child porn (came across it after I got a notification that there was a sex offender in our area, who had been convicted of "Lewd/Indecent Acts to Child (Oklahoma)"; such vague wording as that confused me, so I decided to look it up to see what it meant under Oklahoma law), in that it said there had to be obvious lewd focus on the genitals and scienter. I had never seen the term before, but it's obviously an important legal concept. Perhaps the Ohio child porn thing could be one of the things brought up here? This is the article I found: [1] Runa27 19:43, 22 June 2006 (UTC) ETA: Well, I mean I know what "Lewd/Indecent Acts to Child" implied, but I didn't know what age counted as a "child" under Oklahoma law (apparently, "under 16"), or whether that conviction would have included actual rape or groping or just say, flashing/streaking or talking dirty (apparently, it practically covers ALL of that, to an extent). I'm not a complete idiot, of course, I just know that "Lewd/Indecent" can mean an awful lot of things. Runa27 19:47, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]