Virginia police want to take pictures of 17 year old sexter's penis

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Syt

July 10, 2014, 07:20:20 AM
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QuotePolice Want to Force a 17-Year-Old Accused of Sexting His Girlfriend to Take More Explicit Photos As Evidence

Today in "the whole world is insane": Prosecutors and police in Manassas City, Virginia, have a warrant to photograph a 17-year-old's penis in hopes of convicting him as a sex offender for sending a dirty video to his 15-year-old girlfriend. The boy's lawyer tells the Washington Post that after he refused to plead guilty, prosecutors said they would need to "just take him down to the hospital, give him a shot, and then take the pictures that we need." Of his erect genitalia.

"This is a 17-year-old who goes to school every day, plays football, has never been in trouble with the law before," says his attorney, Jessica Harbeson Foster. "Now he's saddled with two felonies and the implication that he's a sexual predator. I don't mind trying the case. My goal is to stop the search warrant. I don't want him to go through that. Taking him down to the hospital so he can get an erection in front of all those cops, that's traumatizing."

The teen, who was reportedly turned in by his girlfriend's mother after the couple exchanged explicit photos and video, faces charges of possessing and manufacturing child pornography. He could be jailed until he turns 21 and end up on a sex-offender registry for life.

As if it weren't bad enough already, NBC Washington reports that police already photographed the boy's penis when they arrested him, according to his aunt:

Quote"He said they took him to a room and took pictures of his genitalia," Stacy Bigley said. "I asked if they're allowed to do that, and [the 17-year-old] said, 'I tried to refuse,'" which he did, he didn't want to do it. They told him if he did not they would do it by force."

As for the new warrant, the Post reports:

QuoteDespite the request by the prosecutor  in court, Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney Paul B. Ebert said that police told him "these allegations [by the lawyers] lack credibility." He said he would look into the matter further.

The teenager's lawyer said prosecutors have said they will "use special software to compare pictures of this penis to this penis." She added, "Who does this? It's just crazy."

"They're using a statute that was designed to protect children from being exploited in a sexual manner to take a picture of this young man in a sexually explicit manner," said Carlos Flores Laboy, who was appointed by the court to be the boy's guardian. "The irony is incredible." And shameful.
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The Brain

#1
July 10, 2014, 07:23:36 AM
What do you think?
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Norgy

#2
July 10, 2014, 07:55:07 AM
As headlines go, it's too long.

Malthus

#3
July 10, 2014, 08:05:11 AM
QuoteThe teenager's lawyer said prosecutors have said they will "use special software to compare pictures of this penis to this penis."

There really is an app for everything.  :hmm:
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Ed Anger

#4
July 10, 2014, 08:06:40 AM
Quote from: Malthus on July 10, 2014, 08:05:11 AM
QuoteThe teenager's lawyer said prosecutors have said they will "use special software to compare pictures of this penis to this penis."

There really is an app for everything.  :hmm:

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celedhring

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July 10, 2014, 08:10:09 AM
Quote from: Norgy on July 10, 2014, 07:55:07 AM
As headlines go, it's too long.

It's thick with content, though.

garbon

#6
July 10, 2014, 08:55:58 AM
The whole world is insane?
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July 10, 2014, 09:32:28 AM
QuoteProsecutors and police in Manassas City, Virginia, have a warrant to photograph a 17-year-old's penis in hopes of convicting him as a sex offender for sending a dirty video to his 15-year-old girlfriend.

:huh:

:wacko: :wacko: :wacko:
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garbon

#8
July 10, 2014, 09:44:25 AM
Sex kills.
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DGuller

#9
July 10, 2014, 09:44:59 AM
This is something I don't get about lawyers.  As a prosecutor, how do you sleep at night after trying to railroad a young man with grave charges that were clearly not meant to address that situation?  It almost seems like you need to have a mindset of a contract killer to do this job;  you don't care how a file came on your desk, your job is to put a couple of .22 bullets in your assigned file's head.

DontSayBanana

#10
July 10, 2014, 09:47:40 AM
Seriously?  Stupid prosecutor would have had less of a stretch going for public indecency (hi, judge, the photo was indecent.  When he texted it, it became public).
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Valmy

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July 10, 2014, 10:04:51 AM
Quote from: Legbiter on July 10, 2014, 09:32:28 AM
QuoteProsecutors and police in Manassas City, Virginia, have a warrant to photograph a 17-year-old's penis in hopes of convicting him as a sex offender for sending a dirty video to his 15-year-old girlfriend.

:huh:

:wacko: :wacko: :wacko:

Prosecutors are appointed to use their good sense about what the public interest demands they do.  It sure seems like too many of them instead just go for trying to convict as many people as possible on as severe terms as possible rather than what their actual mandate is.  Trying to convict all these teens of felonies and put them on sex offender lists for youthful shenanigans is a betrayal of their mandate and waste of public money and resources.  Not to mention morally bankrupt and reprehensible but they are lawyers so I understand the futility to bringing up that point.
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July 10, 2014, 11:07:49 AM
Quote from: Solmyr on July 10, 2014, 10:57:49 AM
Quote from: garbon on July 10, 2014, 08:55:58 AM
The whole world is insane?

No, just America.


There are places outside the US? :huh:
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derspiess

#14
July 10, 2014, 11:21:12 AM
I'm still trying to get past the "give him a shot" thing.  Would this be right in the... you know??  :pinch:
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