Maurice Washington Faces Charges
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HuskerPowerVA
Special Teams Player
I don't think he is either, of course I don't know him, but I doubt it. I do know that pedophiles start early and often are not caught for decades. That is why the law is the way it is written.
onlyHskrfaninIL
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You have to be kidding. This was something he was sent he didnt go seeking out. High school kids have sex and video tape it. Surely you can see the difference between Jared Fogle kiddie porn and this? Has it even been proven to be rape?
Yes, it was bad judgement to have anything to do with reply to that text but to present him as some kind of budding pedophile is bulls#!t and you know it. I'm really kind of sick of the fake outrage virtual signalling people fake nowadays.
onlyHskrfaninIL
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Well that's great that you are so morally superior. Maybe you should sit this season out until the case is heardSkeptic said:
HuskerPowerVA
Special Teams Player
Here is what I do know:
Number one - it's not fake outrage. I really do think he is a scumbag for doing it. What you are sick of is immaterial.
Number two - I hope you are not a parent.
Number three - It has not been proven to be a rape. If you read the posts that is what we were saying.
Number four - Yes, it was something he sent, he sent child pornography. Maybe you don't know that a 15 year old qualifies. He is either stupid or didn't care.
Number five - Do I think he is a pedo? Not at all by this alone. I do think he is immature and lacks basic sense and morality for possessing and sending child porn. The fact he kept a video like that when she is was that young shows he is a creep.
Number one - it's not fake outrage. I really do think he is a scumbag for doing it. What you are sick of is immaterial.
Number two - I hope you are not a parent.
Number three - It has not been proven to be a rape. If you read the posts that is what we were saying.
Number four - Yes, it was something he sent, he sent child pornography. Maybe you don't know that a 15 year old qualifies. He is either stupid or didn't care.
Number five - Do I think he is a pedo? Not at all by this alone. I do think he is immature and lacks basic sense and morality for possessing and sending child porn. The fact he kept a video like that when she is was that young shows he is a creep.
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HuskerPowerVA
Special Teams Player
I have no problem with you being an ardent defender of due process and wishing that no punishment is brought forth until that system is exhausted. The NFL has the same issue of league punishment vs legal process. I do have an issue if the reason you defend him is because a football team needs him to win games.
PS - I don't think being against him doing this is setting the morality bar very high. Don't run under it.
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Mierin
Assistant Coach
HuskerPowerVA said:
There are laws all over the country that have different repercussions for sleeping with someone under the age of 18 based on whether the adult is under 21 or 21+. Which is how it should be.
The same should apply to child porn with regard to the age of the people in the video and the age if who has it and the quantity they have, because the goal is to prevent pedophilia. Washington had no other videos like this on his phone or we would know about it, therefore it’s highly unlikely thst severely punishing him with the same thing as some 50 year old guy with a video of a 5 year old will prevent anything or protect anyone.
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HuskerPowerVA
Special Teams Player
Age of consent differs between states. The youngest in America is 16. Child pornography laws thankfully do not take this same stance when it involves distribution for obvious reasons. For those unaware, sending it over your phone qualifies. The totality of the circumstances drive the sentences issued as well as if they will be placed on the sex offender registry. He won't be viewed as a predator by the court, but innocent or something that should be legal, glad we live in different states.
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Mierin
Assistant Coach
My post, if you were replying to me, wasn't about age of consent, it was about severity of the punishment.
Huh?
Not directed specifically at you, but people are silly when it comes to the law. Something being illegal is a reason not to do it. It's not a reason not to question whether the law makes sense. Laws can and do change. And sometimes they change because there are examples that showed why the law needed to be adjusted. We are living in a time now when 14-18 year olds have nude selfies on their phones. And that would have been the case 30 years ago if smart phones existed then. One example of a reason to make changes to child porn laws has been posted already; a 16 year old could take a nude photo of themselves and be charged with it; that's just plain stupid.
Also, people are punished in different ways for the same crimes based on the circumstances. I believe this will be one of those times.
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teachercd
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suh_fan93
Heisman Trophy Winner
Sounds like many a CU fan on the twitter these past few days. One guy even tweeted 'F Frost' for even considering playing Washington.
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Red Dead Redemption
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Absolutism FTW!!!!!!!!!
Maryland’s Unjust Court Decision on Sexting
A Maryland teen shared a video of her own sex act. She was punished as a child pornographer.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/31/maryland-court-teen-girl-video-law
The top court in Maryland ruled this week that a teen who sent a sexually explicit cellphone video of herself to two friends violated state child pornography law.
The student identified as SK was 16 at the time and therefore “legally able to consent to engage in sexual conduct”. According to the ruling, she and her two best friends swapped “silly photos and videos” in a cellphone-based group chat “in an effort to ‘one-up’ each other”.
The other group members were identified as AT, a 16-year-old female, and KS, a 17-year-old male. During the 2016-17 school year, SK sent them a “one-minute video of herself performing [oral sex] on a male”.
Prosecutors charged SK as a juvenile with filming a minor engaging in sexual conduct, distributing child pornography and displaying an obscene item to a minor.
The judges said they did “recognize that there may be compelling policy reasons for treating teenage sexting different from child pornography” and said legislation differentiating the two “ought to be considered by [Maryland’s] general assembly in the future”.
SK, humiliated and horrified, found herself charged as a child pornographer. The system failed her at every step, from the school resource officer who treated her like a criminal, to the prosecutor who inexplicably brought a criminal case against her, to the courts that affirmed the prosecutors’ ridiculous reading of the law.”
Rebecca Roiphe, a professor of law at New York Law School and former assistant district attorney in Manhattan, agreed.
“This is a ridiculous reading of the statute,” she said in an email. “The law uses two different terms, ‘person’ to describe the perpetrator and ‘minor’ to describe the victim. The legislature clearly did not intend to criminalize the victim.
“I think the case illustrates how troubling the enforcement of sex crimes can be and how important it is that prosecutors use their discretion wisely.”
Maryland’s Unjust Court Decision on Sexting
A Maryland teen shared a video of her own sex act. She was punished as a child pornographer.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/31/maryland-court-teen-girl-video-law
The top court in Maryland ruled this week that a teen who sent a sexually explicit cellphone video of herself to two friends violated state child pornography law.
The student identified as SK was 16 at the time and therefore “legally able to consent to engage in sexual conduct”. According to the ruling, she and her two best friends swapped “silly photos and videos” in a cellphone-based group chat “in an effort to ‘one-up’ each other”.
The other group members were identified as AT, a 16-year-old female, and KS, a 17-year-old male. During the 2016-17 school year, SK sent them a “one-minute video of herself performing [oral sex] on a male”.
Prosecutors charged SK as a juvenile with filming a minor engaging in sexual conduct, distributing child pornography and displaying an obscene item to a minor.
The judges said they did “recognize that there may be compelling policy reasons for treating teenage sexting different from child pornography” and said legislation differentiating the two “ought to be considered by [Maryland’s] general assembly in the future”.
SK, humiliated and horrified, found herself charged as a child pornographer. The system failed her at every step, from the school resource officer who treated her like a criminal, to the prosecutor who inexplicably brought a criminal case against her, to the courts that affirmed the prosecutors’ ridiculous reading of the law.”
Rebecca Roiphe, a professor of law at New York Law School and former assistant district attorney in Manhattan, agreed.
“This is a ridiculous reading of the statute,” she said in an email. “The law uses two different terms, ‘person’ to describe the perpetrator and ‘minor’ to describe the victim. The legislature clearly did not intend to criminalize the victim.
“I think the case illustrates how troubling the enforcement of sex crimes can be and how important it is that prosecutors use their discretion wisely.”
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Huskers93-97
All-American
I am just glad that some of the folks on this board are not in a position of power. Some people really need a level head to assess the severity of a crime.
Also I am tired of people beating the child porn lingo to make this whole thing sound like he is a deviant pedophile
Also I am tired of people beating the child porn lingo to make this whole thing sound like he is a deviant pedophile