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Boyfriend gets lifetime sex offender status for cellphone video
Winston-Salem Journal ^ | February 9, 2013

Posted on 02/09/2013 4:35:56 PM PST by Gamecock

Edited on 02/09/2013 5:33:17 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Sidney Myers will spend the next 18 months in a federal prison for 15 minutes worth of sex videos he made with his teenage girlfriend.

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To: Hardastarboard

The high schools pass out free condoms...


81 posted on 02/09/2013 7:11:51 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: null and void

“Meanwhile, the existing research raises tough questions about the relative danger child molesters pose to society. Their likelihood of being convicted for a crime after release is much lower than average for all criminals released from prison, and even for all sex offenders, at least in the short term, as measured by a Bureau of Justice Statistics study and others.” -Wall Street Journal 1-24-08


82 posted on 02/09/2013 7:14:58 PM PST by Sporke (USS Iowa BB-61)
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To: Gay State Conservative
My grandmother was 16 when she ran away with and married my grandfather, who was 25. She barely knew him except that they shared dislike for a common stepmother (the woman had first married my grandfather's widowed father, and then on his death, my grandmother's ).

They were married for over 60 years.

83 posted on 02/09/2013 7:20:47 PM PST by Mygirlsmom (Where the heck are we going, and what are we doing in this handbasket???)
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To: null and void

It is the peoples courts.

They cannot stop it.


84 posted on 02/09/2013 7:43:16 PM PST by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: Gamecock

I would not want to see his family life if this is considered a good family. He is a complete idiot....if it was just the video that would be different but making calls to the school stating a bomb threat well that is completely different and jail is appropriate and since I am not being charitable life on the registry is fine.


85 posted on 02/09/2013 8:38:42 PM PST by napscoordinator (/)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

This was a very informed jury and he deserves every moment in jail!


86 posted on 02/09/2013 8:40:21 PM PST by napscoordinator (/)
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To: Graybeard58

So sorry to hear this story. May he burn forever. I think your family is fantastic to do everything you could to stop the abortion. God Bless you and your family.


87 posted on 02/09/2013 8:47:20 PM PST by napscoordinator (/)
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To: svcw

If common sense could not be used to begin with; a law will only make things worse as the language is twisted and skewed to suit the needs of the moment, and as such should be killed immediately.

Like anything to do with gov’t, it is best not to give them any more power than they already have stole/usurped. Give an inch, take a mile.


88 posted on 02/09/2013 8:55:33 PM PST by i_robot73
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To: Gay State Conservative

Interesting. It wasn’t too long ago when ‘kids’ this old were married, building and having families and creating America as we know it now.

The People’s memory is, indeed, short.


89 posted on 02/09/2013 8:58:33 PM PST by i_robot73
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To: null and void

The implied threat is contempt of court, with whatever jail time or fine hizzoner sees fit to apply.

We call this FELONY EXTORTION


90 posted on 02/09/2013 9:10:38 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: Gamecock

This guy is a dumb jackass, but I wouldn’t put this on the sex offenders list for life. I personally think this guy needs 1000 hours of community service for the bomb threat with the change of expungement. I’m uneasy about the 20 and 16 age difference, but that’s not necessarily evil and the parents didn’t seem to object. If he transferred the video to a 3rd party - then I’d have a much different opinion.


91 posted on 02/09/2013 9:14:00 PM PST by Darren McCarty (If most people were more than keyboard warriors, we might have won the election)
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To: dfwgator

Because murders never repeat..or rapists?

Sorry, but you could very well worry about repeat offenses for anybody in prison.


92 posted on 02/09/2013 9:18:15 PM PST by berdie
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To: Graybeard58

I am so very sorry for you and your husband and the mother and father of this precious baby who dwells with Jesus.


93 posted on 02/09/2013 9:19:14 PM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: eyeamok
We call this FELONY EXTORTION

That's nice.

The guys in black robes, surrounded by armed and armored bailiffs, the ones who can decide what is and what isn't contempt, and who can confine anyone for as long as they please (subject to a few limits) call it maintaining courtroom discipline, jury instruction or whatever they damn well please.

You can call the judge out on it any time you please, bless your heart.

94 posted on 02/09/2013 9:34:03 PM PST by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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To: i_robot73

Not too long ago at all. In fact it has happened in my own lifetime. ;)

The whole “let’s record IT for the internet” is a relatively new event that still escapes me.


95 posted on 02/09/2013 9:35:17 PM PST by berdie
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Maybe I should reread the article,but it doesn’t look as if he had a jury trial. His lawyer probably worked a plea, and the obviously perplexed judge had no choice but to follow the sentencing guidelines. Sorry story all around. Incredibly stupid, both as to taping the sex and calling the bomb threat to his girlfriend’s school. Now he pays the rest of his life.


96 posted on 02/09/2013 9:39:28 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Gamecock; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

97 posted on 02/09/2013 9:43:03 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: edcoil

“This thread is totally useless without pics.”

I concur.


98 posted on 02/09/2013 9:46:50 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: Gamecock

They probably wanted to nail him hard for the bomb threat.


99 posted on 02/09/2013 10:02:30 PM PST by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: Gamecock

He is likely to face charges in South Carolina. If done right, he may face life in prison due to SC’s three strikes law.


100 posted on 02/09/2013 10:04:51 PM PST by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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