Posted on 01/05/2017 1:12:05 PM PST by Gamecock
A fired Kentucky high school principal has admitted to seizing students’ phones so that he could steal nude images and trade them online, investigators said.
Stephen Kyle Goodlett, 36, of Elizabethtown, was indicted Wednesday in Louisville on federal charges of possessing and transporting child pornography. Last month, he pleaded not guilty to 63 state felony child porn charges.
The investigation began in September after a 20-year-old woman learned that naked images she had taken for her boyfriend when she was 15 had been uploaded to a pornography trading website based in Russia. She went to Elizabethtown police, who sought federal help.
This “anonymous image board” is used to anonymously post images online, but authorities determined that the IP address of the device that uploaded the images matches an account registered by Goodlett, the federal complaint said.
After executing a search warrant, police found 60 examples of child pornography on Goodlett’s devices. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children later identified images of the Elizabethtown woman as well as a naked girl aged 10-14 in Goodlett’s Dropbox account, the agent said.
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10-14?
What does a 10 year old need with a smart phone?
Maybe it’s just me, but, why are there nude pics on the students phone to begin with. I know, rhetorical.
He’s a vile scumbag who deserves to be locked away for a long time.
But honestly...are there any teenagers in this town who AREN’T taking naked selfies?
Oh to be a child again
I know, right?
What’s worse? A principal stealing nude teen photos? Or the fact there are plenty of teen nude photos to steal?
smh
Because their helicopter parents want them to have phones.
My son is in the 2nd grade and about half their friends have phones. I don't differentiate between "smart" cell phones and regular cell phones because they're pretty much all smart phones these days.
Scumbag!
Nude pics are the new “trading cards” for tweens and teens.
Our entire culture is in the gutter.
Hey, I said it was rhetorical. LOL!
lucky he ain’t a priest
Geez, there’s an ocean full of stupid to go around here.
Hasn’t anyone figured out that once taken, digital pictures are NOT secure and once escaped will NEVER disappear.
I read a news story in Germany a few years ago about a teen boy who was masturbating to nude pics in a magazine and not knowing that one of the “models” was his mother in her younger days. SHTF when she discovered the magazine. She never thought the pictures would be around forever. Talk about a kid needing some serious therapy
This story should be mandatory reading for all people of any age that think nude pics of themselves are clever.
Too danged often.
The ed industry is looking to be fully infested with perverts of all sorts and types.
That’s in addition to destructionist ideologues.
Oh to be a child again.
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Yeah, we had to rely on National Geographic. (Telling my age)
Kids have phones in second grade? What’s up with that?
I know people who give their 3-year olds tablets with WiFi and internet access.
A missing way to deal with this is to prosecute the people taking the pictures of the under-age children - including selfies and “friends.”
If the pix are illegal, why isn’t this done?
Am I missing something here?
I’m not really advocating this other than as a “thought experiment”...but what if things were different.
What if kids were told, once a pic is on your device, it is fair game, and you have no legal recourse to sue. If you’re underage and naked pics turn up, the child porn laws don’t apply if they are traced to your phone. In other words, shift the responsibility to the person who makes the decision to take the naked pics so - maybe - they won’t be.
There is a problem in the way we approach this today because it’s assumed that child porn is OK to self-produce, and OK to share with your boyfriend and so on. But once it turns up somewhere then it’s a big problem and they go after the guy who put it there. It’s a little analogous to throwing drug peddlers in jail but ignoring the meth labs or those who make it. Again I’m not saying we should only punish kids who probably don’t have fully-formed adult reasoning skills yet, but some kind of disincentive should be part of the solution.
“Yeah, we had to rely on National Geographic. (Telling my age)”
Don’t forget the Sears catalog, it captured the fancy of many a young fella.
But NG was the gold standard.
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