Here’s a belated update to a case Reason
covered previously: Charges are likely to be dismissed against
a 17-year-old Virginia teenager who was arrested for sexting his
girlfriend.
Readers will recall that prosecutors had obtained a warrant to
take the teen to a medical facility, inject him with drugs that
would give him an erection, and then photograph his penis. The
intrusive demands raised—ahem—eyebrows, and eventually the Manassas
City Police
backed off.
According to
The Washington Post, the teen was given a year’s probation
last week. If he stays out of trouble for that amount of time, the
charges may be dropped:
[The judge] set a hearing for next August. “Assuming the
defendant complies with everything I’ve articulated,” he said, “the
cases will be up for possible dismissal at that time.” …The teen defendant said: “I don’t know how to feel about it yet.
It hasn’t sunk in. . . . I feel good about the sentence,
but then again, I feel bad because we didn’t need to get involved
in all this. . . . They just blew it all out of
proportion.”
Keep in mind that the crime in question was the mutual and
consensual exchange of nude photos between two teenagers. It was
perfectly legal for them to have sex, but any such photos
constitute child pornography.
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