Netflix Stands By ‘Cuties’ After Streamer Indictment In Texas Over Film’s “Prurient Interest In Sex”
Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticA Lone Star state grand jury has indicted Netflix over the controversial Cuties film.According to the September 23 indictment out of Tyler County, Texas, the Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos-run streamer “knowingly promote visual material which depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of a clothed or partially clothed child who was younger than 18 years of age at the time the visual material was created, which appeals to the prurient interest in sex, and has no serious, literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.”Facing some serious charges, Netflix weren’t backing down today as the 1-page indictment became public via a local Congressman’s Twitter feed.