Indecent Exposure

Indecent Exposure is a criminal offence both at common law and in England and Ireland also by statute. It is not clearly settled whether more than one person must have witnessed the indecency in order to make it an offence. The exposure must be in some public place—i.e. in a place which may be seen by some considerable number of persons. The offence is punishable summarily by three months' imprisonment. In Scotland indecent practices are also indictable offences, but the law in this respect is somewhat vague, and the punishment is left to the discretion of the court.