Cultural Defense for Importing Girls Cited
Seeking to show that intimate relationships with girls are accepted in India, the attorney for a Berkeley landlord convicted of importing young females for sex and cheap labor filed papers this week claiming a “cultural defense.”
Attorney Ted Cassman asked a judge “to consider that Lakireddy Bali Reddy is a product of a society” in which “the norms of his society were amenable to conduct which is clearly offensive in the U.S.”
Indo-American groups say Reddy’s importation of immigrant girls is an example of exploitation and the abuse of wealth and power.
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