The girlfriend, who knew Myers was videoing at the time, was 16 -- which made her a minor under a federal sex offender law meant to apply to serious sex crimes. Having the video on his cellphone meant Myers violated federal law by possessing child pornography... Myers, who was 20 at the time, had no criminal record... now will be listed on South Carolina’s sex offender registry... mostly includes sex predators, stalkers, pedophiles, child pornographers and rapists. That will sharply limit his future career choices and even where he can live... Anderson also gave Myers 18 months in prison for making a bomb threat to Eau Claire High School in north Columbia on Nov. 2, 2011... so he and his girlfriend, an Eau Claire student, could spend the day together without her having to skip school. ...Myers used a blocking technology to disguise his cellphone number when he called Eau Claire to make the threat... At 16, the girl was legally able to have consensual sex under South Carolina law. But under federal law, it isn’t legal to videotape minors under 18 having sex.He didn't "videotape" anything. However, the bomb threat part of this makes me want to see the budding sociopath publicly flogged.
Interesting issues here. By state law in SC the girlfriend was over the age of consent and therefore they were free and clear (I think...I don’t know if Myers being 20 had any bearing or not, but the age of consent in SC is apparently 16). This was a *Federal* child pornography law that Myers (allegedly) broke.
I also find it interesting that he phoned a bomb threat into his high school, all of which took place within the state boundaries of South Carolina...yet again the FEDERAL judge gave him a concurrent 18-month sentence in a FEDERAL prison for it. That perplexes me more than the pornography charge. How is that a Federal matter? That should be a purely state matter, end of story.
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