Public sex at pizza shop! Couple was sentenced to half year of separation

A couple in the UK had public sex blatantly while queuing in a chain pizza shop, under the eyes of others. Their wild behavior was captured by surveillance camera and went viral on the internet. The couple was charged with misdemeanors in public areas and sentenced to community service order, including 23-week long curfews at separate addresses, monitored by electronic tags.

29-year-old Daniella Hirst and 31-year-old Craig Smith were caught on CCTV engaging in a sex act in the pizza shop after ordering their food. It was obvious that Hirst had noticed that the staff was watching them, but she just smiled back. As the video went viral on the internet, the couple soon became talk of the town and received media interviews.

When interrogated by police, Hirst asserted her very open attitude towards sex and claimed she was addicted to the excitement of being caught during public sex. Smith, on the other head, regretted the wild move and claimed they were both drunk. He told the police that they were aroused discussing their favorite public sex locations when waiting for the food.

According to local media, public sex was serious enough for them to be jailed but instead they were given 200-hour of community orders in a year and 23-week long curfew at separate addresses until March 2018. On learning the sentence, Smith swore and bared his bottom towards the media.

MADRID (AP) — Spain on Tuesday approved a plan aimed at making reparation and economic compensation for victims of sex abuse committed by people connected to the Catholic Church.

It also announced the future celebration of a public act of recognition for those affected and their families.

The Minister of the Presidency and Justice, Félix Bolaños, said the plan was based on recommendations in a report by Spain's Ombudsman last year. From that report, he said it was concluded that some 440,000 adults may have suffered sex abuse in Spain by people linked to the church and that roughly half of those cases were committed by clergy.

Bolaños said the compensation would be financed by the church.

But in a statement Tuesday, Spain’s Bishops Conference rejected the plan, saying it discriminated against victims outside of church circles.

No details of how much or when financial compensation would be paid were released. Neither was a date set for any public act of recognition.

Bolaños said the plan aimed to “settle a debt with those victims who for decades were forgotten by everyone and now our democracy aims to repair” that, and make it a central part of government policy.

After years of virtually ignoring the issue, Spain’s bishops apologized for the abuses committed by church members following the Ombudsman's report but disputed the number of victims involving the church as exaggerated. That report accused the church of widespread negligence.

Bolaños said the government hoped to carry out the plan over the next four years in collaboration with the church.

The project will include free legal assistance for all victims of sexual abuse and it will reinforce the prevention supervision in schools.

Only a handful of countries have had government-initiated or parliamentary inquiries into clergy sex abuse, although some independent groups have carried out their own investigations.

FILE - A woman prays at the San Ramon Nonato church after an Easter Holy Week procession was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, April 9, 2020. Spain has approved a plan aimed at making reparation and economic compensation for victims of sex abuses committed by people connected to the Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)