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August 14, 2009
Lip-locking men questioned and released
On Sunday two men with Montego Bay addresses were observed kissing passionately inside a car along the Bull Bay Road in Lucea by the police.
They were taken in for questioning but were later released. According to a reported carried in the Star the only possible charge that the men could have faced was that of gross indecency, under the outrages on decency section in the Offences against the Person Act.
That clause of the act states that any male person who, in public or private, commits, or is a party to the commission of, or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any male person of, any act of gross indecency with another male person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable at the discretion of the court to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.
The lawyer, however, continued that applying the gross indecency charge may be very subjective, as the relationship of the men, type of kiss and other factors may have to be brought into consideration.