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Posted on 07/18/2020 6:01:23 AM PDT by buckalfa
BELTON, S.C. (WSPA)- Belton mayor Tiffany Ownbey is pressing for a revenge porn law in South Carolina after she says she was a victim.
Years ago, Tiffany Ownbey was in a relationship with a man who used his cell phone to secretly record a private intimate encounter with her without her consent, according to Ownbey’s attorney Druanne White. White said the man later revealed to Ownbey that he had the recording and threatened to distribute it if she broke up with him. Ownbey told him she would press charges.
“I felt violated. I felt hurt, anger,” Ownby said. “There’s no words to describe how I felt at that point.”
She said she never saw the recording.
“Kind of forgot about it,” Ownbey said. “Didn’t think anything.”
Ownbey then went years without contact with that man, according to her attorney. After she became Belton’s first elected female mayor in November, her lawyer said Ownbey began hearing rumors that the recording may be released. The recording has since been released.
Several weeks ago, Ownbey asked the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division to investigate. She said it wasn’t a difficult decision to make.
“Because I have a daughter,” she said. “If this happened to me, it could happen to anyone.”
SLED is now investigating. The public reaction to the investigation isn’t what the mayor expected.
“I knew I was going to have some adverse publicity, but I never expected in a million years to be victim shamed the way I was,” she said.
She said that felt like being violated all over again.
“I guess I was kind of appalled. Like really? We’re in 2020 and someone comes forward from being a victim and that’s how you treat them? That’s what’s wrong with what’s going on today,” she said.
According to the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, South Carolina is one of four states that dosen’t have a law criminalizing the publication of non-consensual pornography, also known as “revenge porn.”
White said right now in South Carolina, it’s difficult to prosecute someone who records and releases intimate acts without consent.
“A prosecutor must prove every element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt,” White said. “So as a prosecutor you’re trying to kind of squeeze some behavior over here into this law, but it dosen’t quite fit, you’re going to have a really hard time.”
Ownbey wants to change that. She’s pushing for South Carolina to make revenge porn a crime.
“Revenge porn is real and it’s happening daily,”she said. “It’s happening to a lot women. And it’s time something happens about it. If somebody’s going to stand up, why not me?”
White said a law should require people to get written permission to record a sexual act and then distribute it or face a felony.
Several bills that would criminalize revenge porn have been introduced in South Carolina’s General Assembly, but none of them have ever been passed into law.
Why not use existing wiretapping laws?
Typical government action? No problem unless it affects me and then I’ll do something. Just like the mayor of Seattle refusing to get rid of Chop until they invaded her space.
There are so many laws you can already use without a stupid specific ‘revenge porn’ law to let bimbos mess with free speech and information that they willingly allowed into the internet and had second thoughts about.
Exactly.Even without a “porn” law I’d be willing to bet that,assuming her account is true,he violated at least one...or possibly more than one...law.And possibly even Federal law.
One way to start asymmetric warfare...WHO participated in the lie?
Tawana Brawley? - white boys
Chrystal Mangum? - Duke Lacrosse team
Michael Brown? - Cops - hands up don’t shoot
Jussie Smollet? - Trump supporters
Bubba Wallace? - Nascar - f’n rednecks
Barack Obama? - Bitter Clingers
and on, and on, and on...
Amplify the lie.
Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?
Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.
You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Weapons of mass destruction?
Covid-19?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVH9JLsHBao
Tiffany Obey?
I am at least ambivalent about “revenge porn laws.” If you allowed pictures to be put on the internet or sent them to anybody on your phone you have made them public, no matter what protections you have included. Unless you have copyrighted them then they are public domain. Certain off-color things that seem fun now have a habit of coming back to bite you later. Your own bad judgment should maybe not be protected by law.
Everyne is a victim at some point in life and there’s many ways to ‘strip’ an individual. I imagine many divorced men whose wife took everything they had through the divorce courts felt pretty ‘violated’...
Everyne is a victim at some point in life and there’s many ways to ‘strip’ an individual. I imagine many divorced men whose wife took everything they had through the divorce courts felt pretty ‘violated’...
Very much doubt the taping was made “secretly”. Women often agree to such videos for a multitude of reasons. Its an interesting legal question. If you allow someone to take your picture, can you prevent that person from “sharing” the views with others?
“I felt violated. I felt hurt, anger,” Ownby said. “There’s no words to describe how I felt at that point.”
She violated herself when she chose to have sex out of marriage, the rest is just consequences.
Ladies, take a good look at your phones. I dare you. If you can’t share the content with your grandmother on a Sunday, it’s a good idea to change your habits. If you can’t, embrace the real you!
How about identifying the perpetrator? Why does he retain his anonymity? Gentlemen don’t do things like this. Good case for the court of public opinion.
People never change. History never changes. People are sexually driven creatures.
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In this case it says the recording was done without her knowledge and consent.
Kinda wish for a “like” button. bu then again I can just say” You’re right”!. if grandma cant see your phone, you’re on the wrong side of decency.. unless its finances..
Didnt know.....lol....yeah right
She certainly does not look guilty.
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