This is in Canada, and right now the only English-language source covering it that anyone I know can seem to find is Vice: https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/...h-child-porn-over-hansel-and-gretel-retelling (A friend found other sources in the Quebec press, but in French. The lack of coverage feels really weird...)
I'm not Canadian and don't tend to write a lot of explicit content, but I still find this extremely concerning. I feel like it could in particular have ramifications for 95% of YA.
Last April, Quebec author Yvan Godbout and his publisher Nycolas Doucet were charged with producing and distributing child pornography. The charges against them stem from a single paragraph in one of Godbout’s novels, a dark retelling of Hansel and Gretel, in which a father sexually assaults his daughter. Godbout and Doucet were arrested in March 2019, after a reader came upon the passage and called the authorities. The work was not marketed to children, contains no explicit visual images, a content warning was printed on the back, and the scene is meant to be horrifying, not erotic.
I'm not Canadian and don't tend to write a lot of explicit content, but I still find this extremely concerning. I feel like it could in particular have ramifications for 95% of YA.
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