Child Porn As a Weapon

VoiceOfDoom writes "Want to get rid of your boss and move up to his position? Put kiddie porn on his computer then call the cops! This was the cunning plan envisaged by handyman Neil Weiner of east London after falling out with school caretaker Edward Thompson too many times. Thankfully, Weiner didn't cover his tracks quite well enough to avoid being found out — earlier boasts about his plan to friends at a BBQ provided the police with enough evidence to arrest him for trying to pervert the course of justice. Frighteningly, however, between being charged with possession of indecent images and being exonerated, innocent (if 'grumpy') Thompson was abused and ostracized for eight months by neighbors and colleagues. With computer forensics for police work often being performed by 'point 'n click'-trained, nearly-retired cops, or languishing in a 6-month queue for private sector firms to attend to it, the uncomfortable question is raised: how easily might this trick have succeeded if Weiner had been a little more intelligent about it?"

Comments

Julian Assange, and others similarly situated

[timothy]

Julian Assange might be a bad example, precisely because such a dirty trick would I think look just one shade too obvious.

But ... Character assassination, or coercion with that as a threat, is all too big a threat, either as a means to smear a person generally, or to coerce a confession (regardless of its truth).

I suspect there are a lot of things I would / one would / you might confess to, if the alternative was unshakable opinion by everyone you meet that you *actually* raped a 4-year-old last year, and that your computer is loaded with pictures of that, and that the FBI can prove it, because, after all, they're the good guys with smart forensics teams. Arson? Yeah, sure, I did that, if you say so -- that's probably one you can eventually get past. Embezzlement? I needed the money! But having child porn? No way -- not me.

(Deny it? Of course you do, you sicko. People like you make me sick to my bones. You ought to be castrated, and put in jail, where they'll treat you like you deserve, you evil freak.)

Ahem.

timothy

Re:Don't f* with the IT guy like at restaurant you

[Grishnakh]

It's true. Someone who's 15 is simply too young to make such a decision. Even at 17, they're simply not mature enough. Even at 17 years and 364 days old, a person is too young and naive to have the capacity to consent to sex. However, one day later, the day they turn 18, they are magically mature enough to make that decision. It's amazing how, with the passing of a single second, someone's brain instantly changes from being naive and impressionable to being mature and capable of adult decisions, but that's just the way it is, and we must accept it.