Spencer Gifts Charged In Selling Sex Toys
The
Tupelo Police Department in northeast Mississippi recently charged
a Spencer Gifts clerk with the distribution of unlawful sexual
devices. The American Family Association were behind the bust.
The
state of Mississippi forbids a person to knowingly sell, advertise,
publish, or exhibit "to any person any three-dimensional device
designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of
human genital organs."
After
sending an undercover agent into the mall store to purchase one
of the sexual devices, local law enforcement officers found the
clerk in violation of the state law.
Following
the sting operation, officers went into the store and seized approximately
$2,000 worth of merchandise that may fall in this category. The
maximum penalty for violating the law is a fine of $5,000 and
six months imprisonment. He also noted that Mississippi is not
the only state with laws that regulate the sale of sexual devices
-- Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and
Texas have similar laws.
Spencer
Gifts, which is owned by Gordon Brothers Group, is located in
all of those states -- and has a total of 660 stores throughout
the U.S. and 27 in Canada.
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