Posted on 05/24/2017 1:06:36 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments
It took school and police officials just a few minutes to extinguish 16-year-old Corey Walgren's promising future. All they did was utter two words: child pornography.
Corey, a junior at Naperville North High School in Naperville, Illinois, was a perfectly normal, social, good-looking 16-year-old. He was an honor roll student with dreams of attending a Big Ten college. He had typical interests for a teenager boy: hockey, fishing, and, yes, girls.
Corey committed suicide in January, just hours after a school resource officer confronted him about an alleged illegal item on his cell phone—a recording of Corey having sex with a female classmate. The girl had informed a dean at the school that she believed Corey had played the recording for his friends (it's not clear whether he did), which prompted the authorities to summon Corey to the principal's office. They called his mother and told both of them that Corey was being investigated for possession of child pornography.
Corey left the meeting, headed to a nearby parking garage, and jumped.
That's all according to a heartbreaking story in The Chicago Tribune, which obtained police records of the case and spoke with Corey's parents about his death.
"I think they wanted to scare him straight," Corey's mother, Maureen Walgren, told the Tribune. "Instead, they scared him to death."
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Right. Kids should not have to worry so much about the interference of the government.
Where did you learn that he never told her he taped them? It was only her belief that he showed it to his friends. She obviously knew they made the tape, otherwise how did she know the recording existed?
What article did you read because none of that is in the article at the link? The girls parents were not even mentioned. You sound like you're off the deep end.
“Many people now think it is just animal instinct and natural.”
They treat it like it is absolutely nothing. I think it is a result of the ubiquitous access to porn that technology now allows that has never happened before. Seems like at least it stayed only between two people before, at least without actual video evidence instantly sent to friends.
Freegards
Because he shared it and named her.She went to the Dean of students and told them that she had sex with Corey.Why would she do that?She wanted him to stop sending a sex tape out.Also the quality of the tape was so bad that you could not recognize anyone.She went because he named her and sent it out to his friends.JMO.
The idea that a child can create child porn by filming themselves is simply ludicrous. This is kind of like saying if you have a security camera in your house and your teen-ager walks through the living room naked that you’ve created child porn. We all know why laws about child porn were created and it has NOTHING to do with these situations.
Finally! That is not worth anything IMO.
You are right that we don’t know the details of how she found out.
“She obviously knew they made the tape, otherwise how did she know the recording existed?”
Maybe somebody told her they saw it? Why would she have to know that it was made?
Freegards
“This is kind of like saying if you have a security camera in your house and your teen-ager walks through the living room naked that you’ve created child porn.”
If you put up a security camera in your house and your 16 year old daughter was filmed naked and then you shared that video with your buddies, you very may well have a problem.
I didn’t say anything about sharing it. The child porn law is about possession. And in today’s world where there are cameras everywhere, there are people who might be violating a very serious law by pure happenstance. If the law talked about distribution instead of possession, that would make more sense.
I would have no problem with the school handling the school rules violations and yes if it happened as reported he should have been suspended. I also think a parent should have been present for the discussion in any event.
A school official has no power to prosecute criminal actions and no threats about that should have been made by the school officials. If the school has a real police department or their officers are part of the local LEO I would still not agree with the criminal aspect being dealt with without parents presence.
If the school has actual LEO officers then why was the student not arrested? I bet they are more on the order of glorified security and were over reaching. In many of these issues the school tries to handle all of it in house and gets in over their head. They usually talk tough and then end up doing nothing. If that had happened the girl would have been sent a horrible message that she did not matter. The fact that they did not have the boy arrested leads me to wonder if they intended to actually sweep it all under the rug.
I wish schools would focus on education, allow parents to parent, and LEO to handle criminal issues. I think that would work better in most cases.
Schools now think they have or should replace parents. I know there are terrible parents out there but schools have proven they are lousy at parenting as well so that is not the solution.
Corey shared the video.
That’s what got him in trouble.
But yes, it would be an overreach if they charged someone for a security video.
Let me know when that happens under a stand alone charge.
The school should have only called the police.
So a 16 year old girl walks into the Dean of students office and says I had sex with Corey ,we agreed to have sex and he sent the video to his male friends and I found out .You think that’s OK.She never agreed to a video being sent out.
Have you read school policy.That’s what they do.
And the idea of charging a child with child porn for sharing a video of himself and his same-age girlfriend is ludicrous. That’s like arresting two teens who have sex with each other for corrupting a minor. There is an utter lack of common sense but instead a desire to use poorly written laws in ways they weren’t intended to be used.
If he should be charged with anything, it should be whatever an adult who shares a video of himself with another adult would be. AFAIK, that would qualify as revenge porn, which apparently is not illegal in most states.
Actually the revenge porn laws may be more common within the past couple years, but it looks like it is only a misdemeanor in most states.
http://www.cagoldberglaw.com/states-with-revenge-porn-laws/
At what point did the girl forfeit her right not to have her nude image distributed to the public?
The kid was stupid to record it, and stupider to show it.
FWIW Note that the article says they don’t know whether he showed it to anyone or not.
An assumption of yours?
“orey committed suicide in January, just hours after a school resource officer confronted him about an alleged illegal item on his cell phone—a recording of Corey having sex with a female classmate. “
I can certainly believe he took it with his cell phone but I also know I have videos on my cell phone that I did not take with my cell phone.
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