A Utah woman has been charged with lewdness in her own home after her stepchildren walked into the room and saw her bare chest.
Buchanan and her husband had been installing drywall in the garage and had taken off their shirts that were itchy from the fibers,
she told The Salt Lake Tribune.
When her stepchildren, aged 9, 10 and 13, walked in, she "explained she considers herself a feminist and wanted to make a point that everybody should be fine with walking around their house or elsewhere with skin showing," her lawyers wrote in court documents, The Associated Press reports.
The state has charged Buchanan with three charges of lewdness involving a child. The charge is a Class A misdemeanor.
The state's
lewdness statute criminalizes exposure of "the female breast below the top of the areola" in the presence of a child in a private place "under circumstances the person should know will likely cause affront or alarm."
If convicted, Buchanan faces imprisonment, fines and the requirement to register as a sex offender for 10 years.
"It was in the privacy of my own home. My husband was right next to me in the same exact manner that I was, and he's not being prosecuted," she told reporters after the court hearing.
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