How Claiborne Richardson wants to be remembered
When the response by the prosecutor and the cops is to think, “hey, we should haul a 17-year-old boy to a hospital and give him a shot to force an erection so that we can take nudie pictures of him all hot and bothered,” it’s time they need to reconsider their choices in life.
Abysmal.
July 10th, 2014 at 1:50 pm
Yes, even Coach Balbricker didn’t want to go that far.
July 10th, 2014 at 2:17 pm
I thought taking pictures of a naked juvenile during a sexual act was a crime. Would they register themselves as child molesters?
July 10th, 2014 at 2:37 pm
Gerry: “An erection caused by medical procedure for purposes of gathering evidence” is not “a sexual act”. Just like a doctor taking a record photo of priapism doesn’t make him a pornographer, either.
The worst problem here is not “mean old cops collecting evidence to match the willy in the picture”, it’s that the law was written to make “mid-late teenagers who can sleep together legally” into “child pornographers” for sending nudes to each other.
(I mean, the prosecutor should not have prosecuted here, as a matter of prosecutorial discretion.
But the core problem is the drafting of the law itself, which involves the prosecutor in the first place and makes both of the “kids” [young adults] involved “producers of child pornography”.)
July 10th, 2014 at 3:03 pm
They’ve backed off.
http://hamptonroads.com/2014/07/va-police-back-plan-take-explicit-photo-teen
July 10th, 2014 at 3:55 pm
Just further evidence of the Legal Industrial Complex being pushed on us by Big Justice.
July 10th, 2014 at 11:28 pm
JKB, that’s the first thing I thought of also.
Don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing.
July 11th, 2014 at 12:22 am
I’d be interested in the response if ever a prosecutor decided to forcibly and medically induce a state of sexual arousal in an underaged female for the purpose of taking pictures of her genitals.
There’s a whole lot to be disgusted by here, but first someone must explain to me whether this falls into the “rape culture” bin or the “war on women” bin. Also, trigger warning.
July 11th, 2014 at 1:34 am
The girl apparently started this trend and she was 15. Why didn’t she get charged too? Consider that if either of them had accidentally sent these pictures to the wrong person, that person could go to jail and be on the offender database for the rest of their lives.
July 11th, 2014 at 11:25 am
Quote: The girl apparently started this trend and she was 15. Why didn’t she get charged too?
Because she doesn’t have a penis, silly.