The “why indeed” citation. Nevermind
So the cop who tried to get a warrant to photograph the kid’s erect penis as evidence back in 2014? He just killed himself. Seems he was about to be arrested for soliciting sex from a 13-year-old boy.
Welp. That is unfortunately not surprising.
Hmm. I missed this thread. Maybe it should be linked to the “Controversial Encounters” BBQ Pit thread thread so we can see how Smapti defends this as good police work.
Penis ensues.
I remember the police also photographed Michael Jacksons penis. Probably to Beat It.
Good God. This guy had sued the kid’s lawyer for libel for calling the prosecution “crazy”, claiming that her use of that word caused him
What a tool!
That’s what he said!
I don’t know about you, but as a teenager, if Scarlett Johansen had been a thing yet, just someone saying Scarlett Johansen lapdance probably would have had some results, whether in a room full of cops, a room full of kittens, a Golden Girls reunion, Sunday school, or any other place. Hell, half the time it’d do that anyway for no reason whatever.
The late officer was completely in the wrong here. Notwithstanding the fact that the way statuatory rape laws are applied to consensual sex between minors is seriously messed up, and child pornography law as applies to pictures taken by the minor his/herself even more so, the demand in question is clearly a violation of the defendant’s Fifth Amendment rights.
It’s unfortunate that he took the coward’s way out instead of facing the consequences of the things he did, but that’s really neither when it comes to the sexting matter.
It would be more convincing if you’d said this before the guy was caught, indicted, and committed suicide during the attempted arrest.
Though that you’re admitting a police officer was wrong before he was actually convicted of anything represents progress!
He’s dead now. He is beyond the jurisdiction of the legal system and can no longer be convicted of anything. Nor is it legally possible to libel him, so there is no legal barrier I am aware of that stands in the way of my saying that, if the allegations against him are true, that he was a bad person and he would have deserved whatever he got.
I’m afraid I wasn’t aware of this thread before today, so I hope you’ll accept my apology for not opining sooner.
That’s an interesting way to put it. Are you thinking that if someone is alive and, say, on trial for a crime, but not yet convicted, then in such a case there remain legal barriers standing in the way of your saying that the person committed the crime?
from the story linked above,
… When authorities showed up at the home of Manassas City police detective David Edward Abbott – a hockey coach and member of the Northern Virginia-Washington D.C. Internet Crimes against Children Task Force – to arrest him …
(superfluous emphasis mine) Is this like that Mark Foley thing all over again?
Sanity (of a sort) prevailed, and the judge allowed the teenage box to serve probation for a year, plus 100 hours of community service. I wonder what type of service? Does he go around to schools to teach the kids about the dangers of dick pics? A “Scared Limp” program? “You can use your dick, just don’t photograph it!”
I obviously meant to type “teenage boy”.
Fuck me. Surely having photos taken of himself by a paedophile was punishment enough for the kid.
Yeah, truly bizarre case.
Maybe he was one of those guys who is so desperate not to be what he is that he went whole-hog against it, like anti-gay ministers who turn out to be gay.
More likely being on the child sex crimes unit gave him better access to explicit photographs of minors and allowed him to avoid prosecution himself. Like an arsonist who joins the fire department more than the anti-gay minister.
“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
I’ve heard before that LEOs that have to view things like child pornography have to go through counseling when it’s over as it’s possible for it to become normal to some degree. Not sure if that’s true or not.