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.
It was a sleeze ball thing to the guy to do....
But as you say, she doesn’t look guilty...
I know I’m a terrible person for saying it might be interesting to take a look at the video....
Well she is a Democrat, so yeah that’s what they do. 8>)
She’s a twit. Now, she’s hoping that the patriarchy will ride in as white knights to save her. How about “no”. She’s getting enough attention as it is.
Kind of hard to forget about something you knew nothing about.
She was married at the time too?
Now some would say that was very careless.
“AppyPappy, why do you have so many videos of cicadas?”
1. Tiffany
2. Amber
3. Diamond
NO. Naked pictures don't "end up" on someone else's phone. Any more than someone "ends up" pregnant. In order to have naked pictures on someone else's phone, they have to be taken. If they are taken without your consent, it is a crime (though the lack of prosecution is very telling about how often this really occurs). If they are taken with your consent, you are an idiot. Either way there is a direct cause and effect relationship to what happened. There is no "end up" in this equation.
... Now some would say that was very careless.
Under the tradition I was raised under, the act of having sex was what created the marriage, not a license, oath, or priest. Having sex created one flesh. Having a multitude of partners meant being ripped to shreds.
Under that tradition, one was very careful with whom who they connected A to B and mixed well. The “one flesh” consequence was permanent.
I really doubt that.
She was cheating on her husband at the time.
When women have affairs they are liable to let their lover get away with stuff they wouldn’t even let their husbands get away with.
Now What could possibly go wrong?
Lady up. Eat your peas and stop digging.
By “end up” I was referring to the practice where a lot of young people snap um, compromising pictures of each other with their phones during the course of a relationship. With each other’s consent. Because of course “they are in love”.
The point here is when I was young, the only people who had access to these miniature cameras were the CIA/KGB etc. And they cost tens of thousands of dollars. Today everyone has it.
You are right of course.
In the Hot Crazy matrix
Danger Zone: Redheads, Strippers, Girls named Tiffany, Hairdressers...
Turns out wiretapping laws do not cover revenge porn.
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