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Triley
Posts: 14 Location: New Hampshire, US |
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I was under the impression that they all agreed on it. He called me at work after he got home from court, and he said his lawyer told him 14 days if he pleaded guilty, 90 if he pleaded innocent and was convicted. He said nothing more, so I'm not sure. I'm going to be flying up there weekend, just to get Monday with him after they get home from jail (hoping for home arrest for the first week for him instead, since it is a major possibility for the sentence), so I'll think to ask him, if I can get him to talk about it. |
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neocloud9
 Posts: 1178 Location: Atlanta, GA |
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Well, it's good that he has your support right now. What an unfortunate situation. 
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Triley
Posts: 14 Location: New Hampshire, US |
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Actually, the psychologist than ran the tests on him in Dartmouth, said that same thing. We've been together for over three years, in this dang long distance relationship. (I don't call it a e-relationship, because if you total up the time we've spent together in person, it's close to 4 or 5 months.) Our luck just doesn't seem to change. The first time we tried to bring him to the US to meet my family, he was refused at the border. We were taking a bus to Bangor, ME, and they sent me along the rest of my way, without even letting us say good-bye... Click here for my journal entry on this, on GaiaOnline. |
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Ralifar
 Posts: 205 Location: League City, TX |
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No, it will be a moot point a few hundred years in the future when they have a different social and moral structure, but, as you said, today's society deems it to be wrong. If we use logic instead of idiocy that would make it completely pertinent.
Well, I can't really say much to that except I'm sorry he has a brother like that, and that the police were douche bags. |
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chrisb
 Subscriber Posts: 617 Location: USA |
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Wow isn't the sentencing kinda light for the brother who had actual abuse on his computer, not just images but videos of assault? I mean people have gotten in trouble for having just virtual stuff but this dude has 10 percent real and very illegal material.
Canada is weird... Last edited by chrisb on Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:37 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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zawa113
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Wait, so a computer with actual child porn images is worth 3 months jail time + probation and the Chirstopher Handley case where it was all manga was worth up to 15 years? I sincerely hope I am mistaken here, that's the US government for ya (is Canada more lax about this or something or was it just the US court system being a jerk to Handley by overblowing the situation here?)
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Triley
Posts: 14 Location: New Hampshire, US |
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Did you read my above posts? |
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chrisb
Subscriber Posts: 617 Location: USA |
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^ Yes and I apologize I should have referred to just the guilty party in this case. I just rushed so I edited it now to refer to the guilty party.
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Hexon.Arq
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It's been said before, but while the 10% more than merits punishment (if not more than was levied), I can think of no reason why virtual ANYTHING should ever be illegal. Even after all I've read in the news, it is still a completely bizarre concept to me.
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decepticons2
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some new agencies up in canada have stated that the 10% were still virtual images. Meaning computer generated. Its still ilegal though. No news I have seen has said there were any real pictures of real children involved.
Thats why it is three months and not a longer term. |
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Triley
Posts: 14 Location: New Hampshire, US |
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There were some real pictures. How many, I don't know. I haven't talked to Corey since this case started in November, and David wouldn't know. |
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commsky
 Posts: 40 Location: Riverside, CA |
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People like that really do need a bit of serious help
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james438
Posts: 19 Location: Iowa |
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Even if they spent no time in jail their spending the rest of their life on a sex offender registry where they are not allowed to have many different jobs, are social outcasts, and can only live in certain locations away from most other people and have to live in fear for their lives from people who go online and discover that they are sex offenders and decide to take the law into their own hands to protect their children sounds rather harsh to me.
Shoot, I think I would prefer 20 years in prison compared to that! |
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Animehermit
 Posts: 964 Location: The Argama |
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first, as a fellow new hampshirite i'm happy to see someone on the forums from my neck of the woods. second, is there any sex offender status laws in Canada, like there is in the US? because is would suck tremendously if he had to register as a sex offender to boot. third, sorry for what happened to your BF, heart goes out to you, really |
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Lemoncookies23
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Virtual or animated anything shouldn't be illegal. If he does have pictures of real children, however, he should be nailed by the law (ah, puns).
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