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If I were arbitrating this trial, I would (at the very least) place the burden of proof on the state. Were the state able to prove that the girl suffered harm because of the parents' open sex practices, I might consider convicting them. That said, it seems exceedingly unlikely that any articulable harm was done. It's weird, it sounds like a bad idea to me, and I am certainly glad my parents never did such a thing. Even so, I think the parents were probably entirely within their rights to show their daughter the mechanics of sex.
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