No. If a parent wasn't present, he didn't.
These resource officers (kid cops) are a monstrous concept that doesn't belong in America.
Consenting kids = child porn; consenting adults = meh.
Yeah, but the cop got home safe. I bet he feels not a moment’s remorse over this. I bet none of those involved do.
Gee, Maybe their policies and procedures are bad.
I'm sick of government morons using this as an excuse for doing stupid things.
Zero Tolerance polices lead to Zero Intelligence enforcement.
“We do know that the practice of employing police officers to patrol public schools is fraught with abuse. More kids are arrested, and even jailed, for behavior that would have earned them detention in saner times.”
The boy is named.
His mother is named.
What’s the cop’s name?
There are two things here-the kid taking video of him having sex with a classmate and possibly showing it to friends, and the police threatening him with child-porn charges.
The kid was stupid to record it, and stupider to show it. What on earth is it with kids these days? I mean, as long as there have been boys and girls in schools, there has been the possibility and desire of sex. This is nothing new, and it is natural. But recording it? And showing it? That is just foreign to me. But I temper it by realizing young people in general, and young boys in particular, have the potential at all times to do stupid, silly, unadvisable things. This recording thing is foreign to me, but given the way things are, I can see it as just another stupid thing like shoplifting or petty vandalism.
As for the police threatening child porn charges-that is criminal and even stupider. Even a supposed honor-roll kid stupid enough to record his sex act and show it to friends is smart enough to know that would destroy his life and follow him around. Shame on them...I hope the shame of it hangs around their neck like a millstone.
Blah, blah, blah....
The authorities did this, the authorities did that....
But NOTHING they did can excuse the fact this kid killed himself. Not the authorities. The kid himself was responsible for what he did.
Geez...my dad didn’t have all of these rules when he was in high school. He could even bring his guns to school.
Maybe the libtards have it backwards with regards to real freedom?
Morals & adhering to them = Freedom
Immorality and pushing their boundaries even more = Slavery
And then, after threatening him with a serious criminal prosecution, they let this minor leave alone. Two stupid mistakes.
If convicted, his life was effectively over anyway. The limitations placed on male sexual offenders for life are very restrictive and no one cares what he did. They only care about the red dot in the neighborhood every time the local news does the “Is there a sexual predator living near your child” story every few months.
Unsurprisingly, the family filed suit. No consequences of any kind are allowed anymore, except for lawsuits.
How sad for this young man and his family. I suppose, since this happened in January, he hadn’t been watching that 13-something show on Netflix, but glamorization of suicide as an easy choice is everywhere in the mass media.
Sounds like facing his mother is what made him do it.
“The girl had informed a dean at the school that she believed Corey had played the recording for his friends....”
If that is accurate, Corey violated the law and the girl was fully within her right to inform the school of Cory’s alleged actions.
If the girl made a mistake, it was only that she did not go to the police instead of the school officials.
As for Corey, he made his choices.
More hypersensitive whining by “Reason” magazine. For a publication that likes to hold individuals accountable, they sure did a poor job on this one. The kid was irresponsible and disrespectful to the girl he had sex with. Furthermore.....he killed himself...period. There’s an awful lot of snowflaking happening on this thread.
This a horrible and disturbing story. I sit on a public school district board of trustees and this is one reason I will never support creating a school district police department.
The world in general and our educational system in particular need some common sense, good judgment and discretion in the exercise of authority.
Reminds me of that black student a few years back - he was 18 and got oral from a 17 year girl and they gave him 5 years in prison and sex offender status. Bill Clinton rapes and is celebrated, a black kid gets a BJ and his life is ruined.
The boy was showing pictures of the two having sex and the girl was upset. I don’t blame the school resource officer. What the boy did was wrong for many reasons.
Then he committed suicide. It doesn’t sound like anyone’s fault but the kid’s and perhaps his upbringing. Why would he share an intimate moment with the other boys.
I wish the story had a better outcome, but the school resource officer is not the problem here.
It doesn’t sound like he was arrested. He just couldn’t handle the situation.
