Posted on 12/18/2020 3:17:30 PM PST by rickmichaels
A Michigan couple will have to pay a yet-to-be-determined amount after tossing out their son’s extensive porn collection. David Werking, 42, sued his parents — Beth and Paul Werking — for disposing of what a judge called “a trove of pornography and an array of sex toys.”
U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney, in Kalamazoo, granted the son’s request for summary judgment in his favor. The parties have until mid-February to file written submissions on damages.
The parents’ attorney, Anne Marie VanderBroek, said she is working to establish the value of the items that were disposed of but declined to comment about the case. David Werking contends damages are around US $25,000. His attorney, Miles Greengard, contends his client should receive treble damages (three times the actual or compensatory damages) permissible under his claim of conversion of property.
“We have asked the court for treble damages, which we believe are warranted given the wanton destruction of the property,” he said. He was pleased with the judge’s ruling.
The case wasn’t just about a man and his dirty mags. “This was a collection of often irreplaceable items and property,” Greengard said. His client had moved into his parents’ home in Western Michigan in late 2016 following a divorce. After he left for Muncie, Ind., he expected them to deliver his belongings. He later realized that a dozen boxes of pornographic films and magazines were missing. His father said in an email: “Frankly, David, I did you a big favor getting rid of all this stuff.”
The judge earlier rejected the parents’ request to dismiss the case.
“Getting to the heart of the coconut now, the legal issue before the court is whether Paul and Beth converted David’s pornography ‘to their own use,’” Maloney wrote earlier. He found that they did. The parents had kept some materials, described as the “worst of the worst,” in a safety deposit box, fearful it could be illegal.
Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department reviewed the materials and found no evidence of child pornography and no charges resulted.
Whatever else can be said, I think this might be a case of winning the battle and losing the war.
I am thinking the guy will likely find himself removed from the will.
The parents should deduct all costs of their son living in their home after his marriage broke up. This, by the way is what you do when you don’t care about your parents at all, in way. Sad, they didn’t see that detachment before he moved in.
**Good News, Ladies, David (the Plaintiff) is SINGLE!
If there is still any doubt as to whether we are a Christian Nation anymore, we are not.
Charge him 4 years of back rent total to the judgment amount.
My mother threw out my collection of baseball cards.
I wonder what is owed me.
That ain’t werking, that’s the way you do it.
Money for jerking and no chicks for free.
Judge is wrong here, they were afraid- they didn't "use" it if it was in a safety box.
LOL! "Let's go to the bank to see some porn Hon!"
Now, they shouldn't have destroyed their son's property.
As for "damages" all his collection could probably be recreated by joining a porn site for a month.
“Getting to the heart of the coconut now, the legal issue before the court is whether Paul and Beth converted David’s pornography ‘to their own use,’” Maloney wrote earlier.
How does somebody “convert porno to their own use”? I mean, was it personalized porno where the participants said his name?
Can anyone help me out here?
Oh, he’s 42. If he’d been 12, this would have been much more interesting.
Does he have enough money now to get this own place?
If the guy just had a Pornhub account he could have avoided all of this.
The kind of stuff you have to pay that much for is rarely free. What kind og=f pervert must the Judge be. Like the one in Texas that ordered a divorced father to allow his wife to transition a young boy to a girl against the boy's will. And we wonder why we can't get justice for the election in these courts. The Pizza claims were true and the infect the very elite to the core of our government. Jeffry Epstein was just a minor peek into the level of the infection.
it doesnt matter
he doesnt care he’s single
“Sheesh, just go online for free.”
Yep! They also throw in viruses and malware.
It’s just a legal term. “Conversion” means appropriating another’s property. It can be the civil corollary of theft or, in this case, deprivation by destruction
Parent deserve it for enabling this worthless son!
“And by the way who pays for porn anyway it’s free.”
What sites do you recommend?
“Charge him 4 years of back rent total to the judgment amount.”
He was there three months.
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