A grand jury in Texas has charged Netflix’s “Cuties” for “lewd exhibition” of children.
Streaming A grand jury has charged the streaming service for “lewd exhibition” of children. A grand jury in Tyler County, Texas has indicted Netflix due to it’s French coming-of-age drama Cuties, alleging “lewd exhibition” of children, according to reports published on Tuesday, Oct.6. More specifically, the charge initially filed back in September accuses the site of promoting “visual material which depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of a clothed or partially clothed child” under the age of 18, “which appeals to the prurient interest in sex and has no serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value,” per a document tweeted out by Texas congressman Matt Schaefer on Tuesday. A spokesperson for Netflix said the charge is “without merit” in a statement issued to various publications on Tuesday. “Cuties is a social commentary against the sexualization of young children,” Netflix said.
