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Musician Jailed Over Prank YouTube Video
An anonymous reader writes "Evan Emory, a 21-year-old aspiring musician, edited together video of him singing a G-rated song to a bunch of giggling school kids with video of him singing a song with sexually explicit lyrics, and posted it on YouTube. For this stupid joke, done many times by professional comedians (all NSFW, obviously), and admittedly done without getting permission from the children shown 'hearing' him sing naughty words, he was arrested and could face 20 years in prison as a sex offender. On the pretext of looking for 'souvenirs' of child sexual abuse, his house has been searched by police, and the Muskegon County (Michigan) Prosecutor has insinuated (with no further evidence) that Emory actually wants to have sex with children and claims he 'victimized every single child in that classroom.' Emory insists he had no such intention."
His video depicted him saying sexual remarks to children. Whether or not they were actually there doesn't really matter. In America you can't even post naked pictures online of people you claim are underage, even if they are in fact over 18.
Gosh, amazing how soon change their mind. If someone dares to infringe upon your privacy you cry wolf but if a guy misuses children for the sake of views "However, when later asked if he regretted his decision he seemed a bit more cavalier: “I guess we’ll see how many views it gets on the Internet,” he said." then that is alright.
The kids nor their parents gave permission for this footage to be used as this. Don't they have rights? Hang him on this, confiscate all his past, current and future earning to pay for damages. That should frighten any musician I know far more then mere jail time.
Yes, the joke has been done before, but the other PAID and the people involved ALL knew what was going on. Big difference. If you disagree, then basically you think it is okay for a picture of you to be taken from the internet and placed besides an article you don't want to be linked to. Oh wait, that happened just a while ago and everyone was so outraged by it.
Guess that hypocrisy rides again.
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It isn't illegal to depict children being murdered, we're totally fine with that here in America. The GP is correct though, and you're the ignorant asshole.
Dude, you have no clue WTF you are talking about. Citing outliers as fact only makes you look stoopid. Check the recidivism rate of those released.
How about we release these guys and you host them for a few months so that you can verify their innocence? Surely you are much more competent and a helluva lot smarter than those who have made the decision to keep them where they are at.
A little more research by your humble self might discover some amazing truths about military commissions: they tend to be a lot more fair than your average trial.
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