Posted on 05/24/2017 1:06:36 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments
It took school and police officials just a few minutes to extinguish 16-year-old Corey Walgren's promising future. All they did was utter two words: child pornography.
Corey, a junior at Naperville North High School in Naperville, Illinois, was a perfectly normal, social, good-looking 16-year-old. He was an honor roll student with dreams of attending a Big Ten college. He had typical interests for a teenager boy: hockey, fishing, and, yes, girls.
Corey committed suicide in January, just hours after a school resource officer confronted him about an alleged illegal item on his cell phone—a recording of Corey having sex with a female classmate. The girl had informed a dean at the school that she believed Corey had played the recording for his friends (it's not clear whether he did), which prompted the authorities to summon Corey to the principal's office. They called his mother and told both of them that Corey was being investigated for possession of child pornography.
Corey left the meeting, headed to a nearby parking garage, and jumped.
That's all according to a heartbreaking story in The Chicago Tribune, which obtained police records of the case and spoke with Corey's parents about his death.
"I think they wanted to scare him straight," Corey's mother, Maureen Walgren, told the Tribune. "Instead, they scared him to death."
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
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.”
“Gee, Maybe their policies and procedures are bad.”
Ya think?
L
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.
Kids are not fully capable of informed consent.
I am sorry for this young mans death. He was probably terrified. However if he showed the presumable consenting sex video to friends she may well have jumped off a garage roof too
It can’t be “anything goes”.
In saner times.
In saner times.
Good God. These times often seem insane to me by comparison.
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.
“This recording thing is foreign to me...”
Yeah, but I think it’s not foreign to a generation raised broadcasting their whole lives on twitter, facebook, instagram, and snapchat. If they’re not documenting it, they probably feel like “it didn’t really happen”.
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