Court Opinion

ID: 9616847
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Deen, Presiding Judge,
concurring specially.
I concur fully with the majority opinion. Certain factual details should be noted, however. The testimony in this case shows that a ladder led up to the attic, where there was a mattress which had curtains around it. Dirty pictures hung on the curtains, and there were also movies and copies of Playboy and Penthouse magazines. The young girl who had allegedly been molested said that her friend told her “it was her and her daddy’s place,” a place of sexual sanctuary.
She said that many of the pictures showed naked men and women who “were on top of each other.” Some of the movies the children watched, she said, were “Heavy Metal” and “Clockwork Orange.” She described “Heavy Metal” as a nasty cartoon which showed “naked ladies and men,” and they would be killing each other and some would be on top of one another. “Clockwork Orange,” she said, showed naked ladies and “they got killed.”
Appellant was quoted as saying the movies and magazines were sexually “educational” but claimed that most of the magazines belonged to someone else. Compare Megar v. State, 144 Ga. App. 564, 568 (241 SE2d 447) (1978). The jury might have made the inference in the instant case that the magazines were used to get the young girls *305in the mood for the subsequent commission of other acts of child abuse, as outlined in the majority opinion, or they may have considered that the showing of the movies and magazines to the young girls were independent acts of molestation and abuse of little children.
Decided March 18, 1986.
G. Terry Jackson, for appellant.
J. Lane Johnston, District Attorney, for appellee.
The recent case of Terry v. Houston County Bd. of Education, 178 Ga. App. 296 (342 SE2d 774) (1986), involved the “R” rated movie, “Blue Thunder,” shown to 4th and 5th grade classes. This film contained profanity and brief scenes of nudity and violence. This court held that the teacher was guilty of neglect of duty, or negligence, but not of “wilful neglect of duty.” There is no evidence in the instant case that “Heavy Metal” or “Clockwork Orange” was rated “R,” as was “Blue Thunder,” yet the evidence is clear here that the acts of the appellant in the case at hand were intentional and wilful as to the showing of the movies and magazines.