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Thanks to the Herald Sun, beloved Australian porn site AbbyWinters.com may be shut down for good.

We all know and love Abby Winters, the home of hot, beautiful Australian girls.  But despite its many fans (30,000 subscribers as of January 2008), not everyone loves Abby Winters.  Chief investigative reporter for the Herald Sun, Keith Moor, is among them.

The Herald Sun has been after police to shut down AbbyWinters.com and its parent company, G Media, for a while.  They’ve been collecting “a dossier of information about the allegedly illegal porn G Media, and companies associated with it, have churned out in Melbourne since about 2000,” according to Keith Moor.

Recently, they turned that information into police, sparking a raid that ended in an arrest of G Media CEO Garion Hall.

What’s illegal about filming gorgeous young Australians masturbating for the camera?

According to section 24 of the Victorian Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Enforcement Act 1995, it’s illegal to make an “objectionable film” for profit in Victoria.

An “objectionable film” is defined by the Act as one that “describes, depicts, expresses or otherwise deals with matters of sex …in a manner that is likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult; or …. is classified RC or X 18+ or would, if classified, be classified RC or  X 18+….”

Does Abby Winters depict sex in an “objectionable” manner?  The answer to that is in the hands of the Victorian legal system, but for anyone who’s visited the website, it’s clear that Abby Winters deserves its reputation for “moral integrity.”

There’s nothing degrading or kinky about the erotic content depicted in the website, just natural girls expressing their natural sexuality. (Check out our review of the website here.)  The Australian Adult Industry Awards ranked it as Australia’s Best Adult Website two years running, and it finally won the international recognition it deserved in 2008 when its “Intimate Moments” series won an AVN Award for Best Amateur Series.

The front page to the website requires that all visitors enter their age to confirm that they are not underage.  It also advertises www.child-internet-safety.com to give parents the information they need to protect their children from online porn.

The website complies with all regulations requiring that models be 18 years of age or older and demonstrates an admirable commitment to giving back to the community. They donate monthly to drug education programs in Melbourne, allow staff to chose a charity to sponsor at each weekly meeting, and even sponsor children in Third World countries.

But the Herald Sun doesn’t see anything admirable about the company. They’re pulling out all the stops against Abby Winters, claiming that one of its former models “said the company used cash-in-hand payments to lure teenagers into performing prohibited sex acts on camera.”

Unfortunately, the Sun should have checked its sources.  That “former model” went on the record at SomebodyThinkOfTheChildren.com to state:

So what happens next?  Will Victoria police exonerate Australia’s most beloved amateur girls website?  We can only hope so.