But Kender is also a strange, controversial figure. Kender was acquitted of child pornography charges in Estonia in 2017 over his short story, Untitled 12, which relayed a narrative about a pedophilic murderer. The novel was defended and the charges dropped on the grounds that it was a transgressive work of literature with potential artistic merit, something like 120 Days of Sodom or Lolita, both of which were cited by the defense.