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 ...
Sigh. I can’t lecture on anything on sexual morality, I recall too vividly being a teenage boy, and how that element of life seemed to dominate my mind.
As I said earlier in the thread, I would never, ever in a million years ever want to be 15 years old again unless they would let me keep what I have learned in the intervening years since then. It was far too painful for me to acquire a lot of knowledge, because nothing came naturally, I could never think things out. I had to learn (it seems like everything) by making mistakes and hopefully learning from them. Which I did not relish. And I often (and still sometimes don’t) learn the lesson. The upside is, when I learn it, I learn it well. The downside is...you shed blood, burn yourself, make a fool of yourself. I feel lucky to have reached my current age.
I just don’t understand how young men and women can have relationships in this weird environment, it seems too...complex. I guess.
But my parents tried the best they could to raise me, and instill a respect for people, deserving it until they prove to you that they don’t. And that includes the opposite sex. My parents had a difficult marriage, but toughed it out through adversity and died in love with each other. I learned a lot from watching the two of them. And they didn’t ignore talking about treating the opposite sex with respect.
Corey was only 16, she would be confessing to Statutory Rape and telling the cops where they could find the evidence to convict her.
Didn’t have time to read the whole thread.Did he send this out to all the males he knew?Did he name the girls?
You can’t make stuff like that up. LOL
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Actually....you could.
The have her stone cold for her Statutory Rape of Corey.
>>Sure, child porn is illegal and needs to be prosecuted.
However, a 16 year old boy with a phone video of his
G-friend and him having sex certainly begs for some
legal sanctions but it won’t be prosecuted or treated
the same as a 32 year old pervert sharing pix of naked
pre-teen girls and IF that is what the resource officer
intentionally led the kid to believe then he needs some
more training.
I agree. He wouldn’t have been punished as severely as a 32 yr old man. But, he would still be branded a sex offender for life even if he only got probation, with all the restrictions that label carries.
“Corey was only 16, she would be confessing to Statutory Rape and telling the cops where they could find the evidence to convict her.”
Corey could have been charged with a felony.
>> The kid himself was responsible for what he did. <<
Destroying a kid’s life because he was naturally attracted to girls his age.
Boys at age 16 or 17 can be imprisoned for false rape. Only when they are age 22 and above can they pursue legal 18 year olds.
The system is sick.
I remember at age 17, hanging with my legal ‘fiance’ and being falsely accused by an ignorant cop.
Cops & the legal system can be quite sick, driving a kid to suicide. They lie.
They would if that had been my son or grandson.
At least for a second or so.
I agree that he was stupid, but the family has a decent wrongful death suit.
Also, how shaming that they told him with his mom. That was a sudden hellish shame for him and this is what immature (all teens) people do when acute shame is all they feel.
My heart breaks.
so much wrong with what they told this kid. sorry to see he wasn’t strong enough to fight on. This world can be so cruel and adults bullying and threatening a teen like this isn’t far from the top. It happens in all sorts of ways too often. I don’t condone the teen sharing a recording like that but the adults were very wrong in what they did/how they handled it.
“I think that suitably destroys your straw man. “
I have no straw man. Some posting seem to think that what the young man did was no big thing. It was a big thing.
“How did you jump to those conclusions?”
You’re jumping to the conclusion that it was a hand held cell phone.
Not necessarily at all.
Anyway, I don’t know. If she participated in making the video willingly, then she’s just as guilty for child porn as he is.
If not, then she’s not. That’s what authorities have to look into.
The boy’s behavior seems to indicate to me that he knew he was in deep trouble. It remains possible that he wasn’t, but that’s what his behavior suggests.
“prop the cellphone so she could do her duck face in the camera just right. Of course the girl knew!”
That, however, is a rather extreme jump to a conclusion.
“She took part in making it.”
Knowlingly? I am not at all certain about that.
If so, she should be in trouble for that.
“The have her stone cold for her Statutory Rape of Corey.”
No, there does not seem to be a statutory rape charge for either participant here.
I don’t know her age. He was sixteen.
But usually statutory rape involves a large age gap, say four years or more, or, at least the accused rapist being an adult over a minor.
Google is your enemy. Make it your friend.
I’m not that young and I don’t remember any sweet, pure dates in my day either. The thing that is so strange and new to me is videoing the sex on your phone or sending photos of your privates. I just do not see what good can come of that. We had good old fashioned phone sex and that was good enough for us back then, goll durn it. ;)
You are right. Kids are kids and should not be charged with child porn.
And the girl is as guilty as the boy in a sense. Every teen needs to know that phones exist. Cams exist. To secretly record is very very easy. Every teen needs to know there is a lot of trust that shouldn’t be given when they take their clothes off. Either get to know your partner for months and really feel you know how trustworthy he or she is, or EXPECT to be recorded. And if you agree to the recording, remember that others WILL see it.
Citing those two posts of mine was a straw man since I had already addressed the issue you claimed I was dismissing.
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