Post by Vince524 on Dec 7, 2017 12:34:19 GMT -5
www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/12/06/detective-violated-law-when-searching-teen-in-sexting-case-federal-appeals-court-rules/?utm_term=.e866d89e9060
Basically at 17 the young man sent a video of himself, no face, just the family jewels to his girlfriend, 15 at the time.
As I understand it, she did it first. Neither objected, but her mother did. I believe the charge was created child porn.
So first off, while I think this is not good behavior, this should have always been handled as a minor crime. There was no predatory behavior here. 2nd off, why is he being charged and not her if the crime is taking pictures of himself?
However, of more concern was that the officer obtained a warrant to have the boy strip naked and while surrounded by cops told to masturbate to achieve an erection so the cop can photograph it. Then, after that did work, he got a 2nd warrant to take the kid to a hospital where they'd give him an injection and then take pictures. They ended up not doing that.
They ended up getting the conviction w/o needing any pictures. And thankfully, his sentence was community service and banning him from social media.
The cop has had qualified immunity, but a court has ruled that a reasonable person would not think this was allowed.
The kid is now 20.
Also, the cop committed suicide after being accused of molesting 2 boys.