FIFTH GRADER OFFERED BONUS FOR WEARING SKIMPY SUIT
Melbourne resident Dave Hardman (pictured) has added a new wrinkle to his kiddie-erotica business. Now his customers can buy swimsuits along with movies of young girls wearing them. (Photo Courtesy of WFTV, Orlando)

A Melbourne man who peddles sexy movies featuring preteen girls, appears to be back in business after a seven-month break. David Hardman is on the hunt for fresh talent, according to a Deltona mother whose eleven year-old daughter was scheduled for a photo shoot at Hardman’s home in June.
“I can’t believe I almost fell for this…” says Suzanne Mark, “…my daughter was asked to do a photo shoot for Dave Hardman.”
Mark said she responded to an online ad for children to model swimsuits for sale on the net. Hardman sent her a link to site operated by an actual swimsuit manufacturer. The catalogue has benign photos of children modeling swimwear with one frontal picture and one rear. Beneath each graphic is the item name and price.
“It was presented to me that it was a swimsuit site…as in a purchase site…not the purchase the DVD site I found after some research.”
Mark E-mailed the Guardian on June 10th – the same day her daughter was scheduled to report to Hardman’s house for her session.
She discovered his “near-porn” site: “DHPro”, only the night before. After searching Hardman’s name, she found news coverage posted by local TV stations last Fall.
Hardman’s quiet, Melbourne neighborhood was rocked by media attention last year when he posted sexy pictures of preteen girls on his site. The images are teasers to get customers to purchase movies of the scantily- clad girls. The youngest models, age ten and twelve, were interviewed by a news team from WSVN in Miami. The mother of the ten year-old, said she was shocked to know Hardman was selling movies of her daughter Kyra.
Hardman offers parents $500 dollars to sign a release granting him unlimited rights to the movies and pictures of the children. Most material is shot in his house on Mt Carmel Lane, which is equipped with a homemade performance stage. Some of Brevard’s beaches have also been used as settings for the movies which Hardman sells directly to consumers.
The soft-core porn is legal because Hardman is careful not to show exposed genitalia. But legislation sponsored by Sen. Mike Fasano (R) of New Port Richey, could change that. Governor Crist signed a new law July 1st, allowing prosecutors to charge teen modeling producers under an expanded definition of “obscenity”. Now, manufacturers of material deemed “obscene” according to community standards, can be charged with a felony in the third degree.
The new law enhances penalties for erotica vendors who pose as modeling agencies. It also restricts a parent’s ability to sell unlimited rights to images of their children.
A nimble businessman, Hardman seems determined to press on with his venture. As if to answer critics who say he’s peddling porn, not modeling swimsuits, he has opened a new site: “Dayla Bay Swimwear” is a web store that actually sells bathing suits along with the salacious DVD’s.
Although his current models appear to be in their teens, and movies of the ten year-old are no longer available, the new catalogue offers his slobbering clientele a hint as to his intentions. He notes that his sexy garments, can be sized for “progressive teens and preteens”.