07-11-2014, 10:13 PM
OKAY, OKAY...DON'T SHOW ME YOUR ERECTION...
Lt. Brian Larkin of the Manassas City police announced yesterday,
“We are not going to pursue it (the erect penis injection/photo).” He said the police planned to allow the search warrant, obtained last week, to expire. He would not say why the decision had been made to abandon the warrant or discuss the reasons for the search.
But, neither the Mansassas PD nor the prosecutors have announced any plan to drop the child pornography charges.
The teen is due back in court on Tuesday. If police didn't find evidence of him distributing photos of the girl (she allegedly sent racy shots of herself to him, according to his defense lawyer) to his football team or posting them on the internet or something like that -- and he didn't send the girl or anyone else porn involving minors other than himself -- I expect to see the case dismissed in the wake of all the negative media exposure.
On a separate but related note, it rubs me the wrong way that it's almost commonplace for minors to be sexting, emailing, and posting sexual electronic images of themselves. I don't object on moral grounds, but instead because at that age I don't think a lot of them have the forethought to consider that what was meant for one person's eyes can end up being seen by literally thousands of eyes and be non-retractable if the original recipient feels like being a dick.
Still, applying laws that were meant to protect minors from others to try to punish them for their own actions is gonna wind up backfiring. We don't know for sure if that's what happened here, but it's happened before and is largely unsupported by the public.
Lt. Brian Larkin of the Manassas City police announced yesterday,
“We are not going to pursue it (the erect penis injection/photo).” He said the police planned to allow the search warrant, obtained last week, to expire. He would not say why the decision had been made to abandon the warrant or discuss the reasons for the search.
But, neither the Mansassas PD nor the prosecutors have announced any plan to drop the child pornography charges.
The teen is due back in court on Tuesday. If police didn't find evidence of him distributing photos of the girl (she allegedly sent racy shots of herself to him, according to his defense lawyer) to his football team or posting them on the internet or something like that -- and he didn't send the girl or anyone else porn involving minors other than himself -- I expect to see the case dismissed in the wake of all the negative media exposure.
On a separate but related note, it rubs me the wrong way that it's almost commonplace for minors to be sexting, emailing, and posting sexual electronic images of themselves. I don't object on moral grounds, but instead because at that age I don't think a lot of them have the forethought to consider that what was meant for one person's eyes can end up being seen by literally thousands of eyes and be non-retractable if the original recipient feels like being a dick.
Still, applying laws that were meant to protect minors from others to try to punish them for their own actions is gonna wind up backfiring. We don't know for sure if that's what happened here, but it's happened before and is largely unsupported by the public.