Maurice Washington Faces Charges

teachercd said:
Maybe I read a few of the posts wrong but you are an a$$h@!e if you think this case is the same as a 50 year old selling pictures of a 5 year old that he tricked the girl into taking while playing "dress up".
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I would say you are an a$$hole if you think what he did was anything but disgusting. 

 
Huskers93-97 said:
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 
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No, he sent child porn.  Sorry you don't like it but he was deviant.  

 
Red Dead Redemption said:
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.”
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Interesting that even though at 16 she was legally able to consent to engage in sexual conduct, she was nevertheless charged with child pornography simply because of the technicality that she was still a minor.

Absolutism FTW!!!!!11111oneoneone

 
it appears that there is a group of fans who are ready to execute the prisoner.   no need to wait for the courts to decide anything since he is already convicted in the court of public opinion.

 
Moiraine said:
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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Clearly your entire knowledge of the legal system comes from Google search.  He is not being charged by federal guidelines.  Laws should change because we have cell phones?  LOL!!!   BY that reasoning we should have changed them when we developed cameras.  

teachercd said:
Okay, I can live with that.

Now answer this...do you think what he did is the same as a 50 year old man taking pictures of a 5 year old girl that he tricked into playing dress up?  
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If you can read, the answers are clearly stated above.  

 
HuskerPowerVA said:
Clearly your entire knowledge of the legal system comes from Google search.  He is not being charged by federal guidelines.  Laws should change because we have cell phones?  LOL!!!   BY that reasoning we should have changed them when we developed cameras.  

If you can read, the answers are clearly stated above.  
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Pretend I can't read what you posted before.

Do you think what Washington did is the same as a 50 year old man that tricked a 5 year old girl into playing dress up, took pictures of her naked and then sold them.  Yes or no...do you think it is the same.

 
HuskerPowerVA said:
Thanks for providing a comparison that proves that you have zero grasp of anything written here. 
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Are you suggesting there might be mitigating circumstances?

He broke the law. He stole a truck. It's black and white, isn't it?

Should he be charged with a felony?

Feel free to seek assistance from a resident 7th grader if you need help with answering a simple yes or no question

 
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He won't answer the question.  Trust me, we all know this type.  

He pretends that a 50 year old that is taking pictures of a 5 year old girl and selling those naked pictures is the same as a HS girl sending a boob picture...

I don't blame him, I would not answer it either.  He/She pained him/herself into a corner.

He/She also went with the "I hope you are not a parent" card...

Dude, I am around HS kids all day long...trust me..."your" little perfect princess...is not what you think.

 
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WyoHusker56 said:
So, every 16 year old who has sent nudes to their significant other in high school is a deviant? I'm guessing you weren't in high school with cell phones because based on my experience 90% of my school was a deviant child pornographer by your definition. 
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If you keep a video of a 15 year old and send it years later, yes, you are.   Sorry technology is an excuse for you to be a creep.  

 
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