The prosecutors are willing to break the law and manufacture child pornography themselves, in order to convict someone else for manufacturing child porn.

I think all three of them should go to prison. The girl, the boy, and the prosecutors. They’re all guilty of manufacturing child pornography. Whichever jail guards took the pictures of the boys penis, should go to prison too.

Aren’t there some kind of protection against that? Forcing an injection upon a person to get evidence? What’s next, injecting defendants with Sodium Pentothal to try to get them to disclose their computer passwords?

I understand that they currently allow taking DNA samples for evidence, but those usually only require a cheek swab or blood sample. The sampling is mostly non-invasive and the testing is done discretely in a lab. They are also taking from the body, not injecting a foreign substance into it.

I’m also assuming they don’t allow cameras filming or taking photos of a cavity search, so why should this be any different.

If I was this boy’s parent, I’d be raising all sorts of hell about how the system is treating him.

As a side note, I know the story is a little vague on details about the contents of the girl’s messages, but I have a feeling they weren’t that innocent either. I can’t see someone thinking that sending an explicit picture is a perfectly valid response to receiving a non-explicit message. If that was the case, why isn’t she receiving any flak. Also, does the boy not have any expectation of privacy for his message to his girlfriend? How is what the mother and system are doing to this boy any different from how cyberbullies make private pictures public to humiliate the victim?

Charge the photographer with creating child porn for the police.

What a bunch of perv police

Your Honor,

I plead Innocent of all charges, furthermore if you order said pictures, I will let the media know of your “Public” order. Should you request a Gag order, I will of course appeal it on first amendment grounds.

I have no idea why the world would want to see this, nor any reason for it to be added to evidence of a crime seeing as you would only prove that I was the victim of my own creation.

To prove a boy produced and distributed child porn the prosecution gets a warrant to produce and distribute child porn.

Well the obvious course here is to have the FBI arrest and charge under the federal laws against the distribution and creation of child pornography the Judge who issued the search warrant, the Prosecutor and anyone in the police force who participate in compelling the creation of Kiddie porn under color of law.

Rick Horowitz summed it up nicely over at his blog:

That’s right, allegedly the boy willingly took a picture of his own penis, which police and prosecutors say is against the law because he’s underage. Taking pictures of the genitals of underage people, they say, is against the law; it constitutes creation of child pornography. It does not matter that — if true — it was the boy himself, alone by himself, who took the picture. It does not matter that — if true — the boy willingly obtained an erection, and willingly took the picture. That’s a teenage boy allegedly manufacturing and distributing child pornography. That’s against the law.

So now the police say the solution is to force the boy, against his will, to get an erection, a hard-on, a stiffie — while someone else watches, and someone else photographs — and then allow them to distribute the picture to others involved in the case. That’s the police and prosecutors actually manufacturing and distributing pornography. That’s apparently not against the law.

The girl who allegedly started the whole thing by sexting the boy in the first place, by the way, has not been charged, and there is no mention of any plans to forcibly strip and photograph her genitalia — aroused, or unaroused — in order to prosecute her and possibly label her as a sex offender for the rest of her life.

If you have any speech left, perhaps you should share it with the Manassas City Police Department.