From Boston Channel
Aspiring Young Filmmakers Using Forbidden Subject Matter
HOLBROOK, Mass. — Police in Holbrook are investigating charges against three minors who allegedly created a video of two of them having sexual intercourse while the third recorded it, then distributed the video to junior high students.
B.S.–Ah, young entrepreneurs in action! How refreshing–did they receive course credit?
I don't think this is how Alfred Hitchcock got started on his directorial path--though he might have wanted to.
“The video depicts two minors engaging in sexual intercourse,” Holbrook police officer Keysha Mitchell said. She said the person recording the scene was also a minor. The video was then distributed among students at Holbrook Junior-Senior High School, police said, and the charges that may be leveled against the teens are serious as the forwarding of such a video, also known as “sexting,” is a felony offense.
“Some of the kids involved could be looking at possession of child pornography, dissemination of child pornography. There’s also the possibility of statutory rape and if there’s any audio discovered on the video there’s also the possible charge of wiretapping,” Mitchell said.
Police said the video was taken at a home, not at the school. The alleged victim, a girl under 16, told them she did not realize she was being captured on cell phone. She went to police with her parents when she realized the video was circulating. Police were planning to be in the schools for assemblies on the matter. Meanwhile, parents in the community reacted to the situation. “All these new technologies and they seem to abuse them sometimes,” parent Chris Hawkesworth said.
B.S.–Yikes! Some of the parents seem to have not grasped the lesson here…This isn’t about the technology! It’s not that the kids abused the technologies! Technology did what technology does–if they weren’t having sex the technology wouldn’t have abused them. Perhaps the behavior is at issue here. Having 15-year-old kids (or younger) engaging in sex is probably not a good idea.
In the meantime, the district attorney will be deciding what charges to bring and police are asking for students who have received the video on their phones to bring it to police so it can be disposed of properly.
They said they understand that parents want their children to have phones but advised that the video and photo-taking capability of the phones can be disabled to lower a child’s risk of being exposed to inappropriate material.
B.S. Report–Yep, those videos will be returned about the same time those people in San Diego return the money they picked up off the highway after drug criminals threw the money out of their vehicle while fleeing the cops….like never.
