4chan Member Gets Jail Time For Sending Dirty Pics To School

[Ghengis John]

his client is a "shy, very vulnerable young man, who is sweet beyond belief."

I'm sure some large man with some serious problems just can't wait to find out how sweet this "shy, very vulnerable young man" is. Hopefully he makes it out alive so he can discourage other would-be real-life trolls with his scare them straight memoir: "Pork and Bean.".

Huh. A friend of mine, 17 and acting under a misunderstanding of what I was saying, sent me, a nearly 18-year old living in a state where I'm about to cross the age of consent, a stunningly hot picture of her that would barely slip into the realm of pornography. If I were to keep this, would that mean that in a month or so, on my birthday, I would be a sexual predator and be eligable to be thrown into jail?

No. For a number of reasons. All of which I regrettably know because a friend of mine in high school had a bad break-up and then his girl accused him of statutory rape. Cutting to the most significant: If images are submitted willfully this is not breaking a law nor are physical relations SO LONG AS there is a three-year or less grace in the ages between the participants. A 20 year old can get it on with a 17 year old legally, this is just understood by the law to be a natural relationship. Also, bit of personal advice friend, if your friend is a girl your age, stunningly hot and sending you naked pictures of herself, by all means, it is time to stop being just friends.

 

[dex-dex]

I enjoyed the escapist certified bad idea logo!

 

[hem dazon 90]

OOH guy from dat evul nasy 4 chan goes to jail rightfully!

Christ its like old people unabashedly showing their racism

 

[DeadlyYellow]

I like the last bit, especially since I am of the belief that how you act on the internet is who you really are.

Which is usually the side you want to keep hidden.

 

[kotorfan04]

"4chan member." Right. There's no registration. Anyone can look at the site, post comments on it, or upload pictures. If all of that had taken place through Live Messenger or whatever, would he be described as a "Microsoft member"?

Silly fool, once you go on 4chan it stains your soul permanently. No matter how hard you scrub the taint won't fade away, and once you post on there you are gone forever and if you post on /b/ may god have mercy on your soul.

OT: I could care less about the whole bloody situation, both people did stupid things and did them on the internet.

 

[Bretty]

Doesn't this guy now go on a watch list or something? haha, too funny.

It is always amazing how easy it is to seperate things that happen online, even through email, as having bearing to anything in real life. This is an example of a 'dick' on a forum being an ass and getting caught. Talk about karma, good luck getting any great jobs that require an FBI background check.

 

[BlackWidower]

Is it weird I'm on the "guy from 4chan's" side?

Yes. Why are you on Bean's side?

 

[BlackWidower]

Here's what bugs me. Why would "Person No. 1" post these pictures? And shouldn't he get prison time as well?

Look, both people are idiots, plus all those on 4chan for wishing "Person No. 1" would kill himself, they're idiots too.

I don't understand the internet.

 

[Moeez]

It took me a few tries to get what was going on.

What Bean did, if it wasn't CHILD pornography and just adult picture of a wife uploading naked pics, then the crime wouldn't be as serious. That would be almost poetic if he emailed the husband with the photos.

But this story, I agree that he should be taught a lesson, but the punishment doesn't fit the crime. Should be some juvenile correction or community work, not going to prison to get prison raped.

 

[euro2019]

Honestly, the bastard deserves it. Even if its online, why is it his business to distribute it to the school to begin with?? If anything he did it just to get the kid in shit and make him miserable. I don't find a diff between this guy and the guys who web-casted that gay kid having sex in that college dorm room who killed himself after. This guy is scum. Period.

Yeah the kid was 14, he obviously had insecurity issues. He did what he did. It was very stupid indeed. VERY VERY Stupid. I don't doubt he deserved some form of punishment. But it was a mistake and he was a kid, any normal person would of left it buried. But this guy obviously has some form of deficit because he seems to want to do it for the sake of making him feel better about himself and ruining someone else's life.

I definitely don't agree that "Person No. 1" is completely innocent in all this, but still, Bean deserves jail time for that. "Shy, vulnerable, and sweet" my ass.

 

[Ghengis John]

Obviously, the Bean dude should not have redistributed the photos, and it sickens me that there are people out there who will try and *make* others commit suicide.

Because they would find it *funny* no less. And these people would not consider themselves monsters.

 

[Godhead]

One of the best seals ever, and is now on my hard drive.

Also. Ewww.

 

[geldonyetich]

"Bean is 5-foot-4 and weighs 110 pounds, Goldberg said. Brody said she thought he was 12 or 13 when she first saw him."

I was going to say something like, "with a name like, 'Bean,' it must have been hard to notice what he uploaded."

Sounds like I was more correct than I thought.

Huh. A friend of mine, 17 and acting under a misunderstanding of what I was saying, sent me, a nearly 18-year old living in a state where I'm about to cross the age of consent, a stunningly hot picture of her that would barely slip into the realm of pornography. If I were to keep this, would that mean that in a month or so, on my birthday, I would be a sexual predator and be eligable to be thrown into jail?

We'd better have a look, just to be sure. Kidding - no, seriously, don't send it to me, this joke could be misinterpreted as soliciting jail bait porn. ;P

Honestly, it's pretty dicey territory, I'd recommend you refrain from advertising this happened. If she's 17, she's probably close enough to the age of consent that the authorities will find it too low of a priority to enforce, you could tell anyone she was 18 when she sent it to you and who's going to prove otherwise? However, if you brag openly about it you raise that priority considerably simply by demonstrating disregard for the law.

 

[Telekinesis]

Another article mentioning 4chan and again it's the same shit.

First, who cares if it's specifically 4chan? Does it really matter where exactly they were distributed? Hell, reading between the lines he only -got- to them through the discussion, they weren't even posted there.

And then of course you have the "lol 4chan is so evil and sick!!!" comments. Jesus it's just an open imageboard which spends more time poking fun at itself than doing the 'evil deeds' you are so often misinformed about.

Just had to get this off my chest. Every time 4chan is mentioned it's made out to be this sick place where pedophiles and psychopaths gather. It's pretty obvious from the tone of that article that the point was to single it out when it's completely irrelevant and often time just comes as stupid and misinforming.
Would you really write "Yahoo member gets jail time for sending pics to school" if he got them through Yahoo! mail?

 

[Lord Rothschild]

did you people even read the artical or just the head line

he did nothing wrong realy you people are a bunch of sheep

herp derp 4chan is bad derp derp he must be bad herp i hope i can remember how to breath and not try to fuck the cat again

 

[Snooder]

This reminds of the story from a couple years back about the high school vice principal who got charged with possession and distribution of child pornography. Some girl in the school took pics of herself and sent it to several boys in the school. The pictures started going around and the vice principal heard about, so he had some kid send the pic to his phone so that he could figure out what was going on and what to do about it. After he contacted the cops the vice principal then gets nailed.

Honestly, sometimes the way prosecutors and police officers prosecute crimes is just idiotic.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/sexting-hysteri/

In some respects, Bean did the right thing. To everybody saying the guy "deserved it" or "should get sexually assaulted in prison" think about it this way. If some kid kills a dog and videotapes it, then uploads the videotape to the escapist forums, what would you do? Probably tell his parents or his school or something. You'd also probably send a copy of the video or a link to it so that they have evidence. Well, that's exactly what this guy did. For him to then get a felony conviction for doing what upstanding citizens are SUPPOSED to do is pretty messed up. Granted, he did it more to shame the kid than out of respect for the law, but it's pretty scary to think that you can get jail-time for that.

Honestly, if you read behind the lines it's pretty clear that Bean is just another unfortunate casualty of the current media frenzy over "cyber-bullying" so that actions that would be perfectly legal or get substantially lower punishments now rate jail-time. They wanted to "send a message" so they convinced him to take the stalking plea rather than try to fight the much stronger child pornography possession charges. So a law intended to stop continued and aggressive harrassment gets used to browbeat a guy because he is really guilty of another law intended to protect the minor, who put the pictures up himself.

And no, it's not the legal system at fault, or the laws in it. It's the humans who decide to apply the laws in 'novel' and interesting ways for purely extraneous goals.

edit: Oh, and to the guy asking about the picture his under 18 friend sent him, it would depend partially on your state's laws, but I'm fairly certain there's no age-based immunity for possession of child pornography. There are cases of kids getting charged for pics of THEMSELVES even.