MAY 21--Meet Alex Phillips. The Wisconsin teenager is facing felony child pornography charges for allegedly posting naked photos of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend on his MySpace page. When contacted by police about the two images, Phillips, 17, balked at removing the pictures of the girl. Warned that he could face jail for publishing images of the minor, Phillips told an investigator, "F*** that, I am keeping them up," according to a criminal complaint filed yesterday in Lacrosse County Circuit Court. Phillips told cops that he posted the photos last week "because he was venting." The cell phone camera photos had been taken by the girl, who provided them to Phillips.
Along with posting the photos, Phillips added explicit captions like, "Yo, U see how big her hole is! Its from me!" While claiming that his goal was not to harm the girl, Phillips acknowledged that, "he probably should not have done this," according to the May 20 court filing. Along with the child porn count, Phillips was charged with defamation and sexual exploitation of a child.
Link: The Smoking Gun
I think thats obvious but why use a still from an episode of The Simpsons to supposedly depict Child porn?
I think thats obvious but why use a still from an episode of The Simpsons to supposedly depict Child porn?
It's random. Someone chose it because of the crying.
Last edited by Foub on 22 May 2008 - 09:29
I AM thinking of her!
"The cell phone camera photos had been taken by the girl, who provided them to Phillips."
Hope somebody "vents" up his a** in the joint!!
Ok, I'll bite. If not to cause harm, what was the goal then of posting naked pictures of his ex-gf?
Idiot. But, like others are saying, don't take nude pics of yourself and give them to people.
16 years old girl have sex?
US has the dumbest justice system. If they arrested boy, she has to be arrested too...equally guilty. Btw, i would not arrested anybody, but fix our damn education.
Seriously, no wonder why so many single moms around when they are all protected by the system and most of them abuse the system so they can get child support, food stamp....and do nothing...find another bf. There are cases where those woman are really abused by their husbands, bf. Judge etc should be more careful when they are having cases like that.
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16 years old girl have sex?
US has the dumbest justice system. If they arrested boy, she has to be arrested too...equally guilty. Btw, i would not arrested anybody, but fix our damn education.
Seriously, no wonder why so many single moms around when they are all protected by the system and most of them abuse the system so they can get child support, food stamp....and do nothing...find another bf. There are cases where those woman are really abused by their husbands, bf. Judge etc should be more careful when they are having cases like that.
I'm from the UK & it seems to me they are both as bad as each other,but what are they really guilty of?,if they were bf & gf,old enough to have sex etc at the time why the whole getting arrested over a couple of nude pics?,sure I understand why you'd be p'd off if some nude pics of yours turned up on myspace & myspace dont allow nude pics in the 1st place,just seems stupid branding the whole thing as child porn,16 is young adult(or adult) in my books,defo not child.
I agree with the single mum comments by the way.
Also I love how its usually Myspace that gets the bad press & yet other sites like I dunno.................. www.teenspot.com for example dont.
16 years old girl have sex?
US has the dumbest justice system. If they arrested boy, she has to be arrested too...equally guilty. Btw, i would not arrested anybody, but fix our damn education.
Seriously, no wonder why so many single moms around when they are all protected by the system and most of them abuse the system so they can get child support, food stamp....and do nothing...find another bf. There are cases where those woman are really abused by their husbands, bf. Judge etc should be more careful when they are having cases like that.
I'm from the UK & it seems to me they are both as bad as each other,but what are they really guilty of?,if they were bf & gf,old enough to have sex etc at the time why the whole getting arrested over a couple of nude pics?,sure I understand why you'd be p'd off if some nude pics of yours turned up on myspace & myspace dont allow nude pics in the 1st place,just seems stupid branding the whole thing as child porn,16 is young adult(or adult) in my books,defo not child.
I agree with the single mum comments by the way.
Also I love how its usually Myspace that gets the bad press & yet other sites like I dunno.................. www.teenspot.com for example dont.
Forgot to add why did the police ask the guy to take the pics off the Myspace site?,surely the police could have got myspace to remove them in the 1st place either by the report function or just the fact they are the police baring in mind myspace have rules about porn.
You just know when he goes to jail, some big guy called Bubba is gonna say the same thing about this guy
Like that couple of 16-year-olds who sent each other their naked photos.
Probably is such an interesting word.
MySpace's reputation just gets better and better!
*sigh* Kids these days have no idea about how to get revenge (a.k.a. "vent"
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/20...news/00lead.txt
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Also, they put a picture of this guy on the cover of our local newspaper (I didn't know they could do that since he isn't 18, but maybe that rule changes with sexual offenders? Please feel free to inform me if you know why they can do this...) and the guy did not look like a winner. He looked like the type of guy that would tell the police to **** off for telling him what to do with his myspace page. You can see his picture in the link in HenryC's comments.
Honestly, who has to defend their myspace like this? It's a website! It's like those old lycos, geocities, or homestead sites, just throw it away and start a new one ffs! DAMN! Also, good call to everyone who said this kid is getting raped in prison. He will.
Also @ HenryC, sorry man, La Crosse is a beautiful town, it really sucks that your hometown is getting this kind of negative national publicity. I feel for ya, I feel a bit embarrassed as well, and I only live near it, not in it.
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And yes, the kids around here are total idiots. Was true 10 years ago when I was still in high school, and is still true now. Doesn't help that we've got 47 bars per square mile around here, either.
Take it most or all of the 16 year olds were used then?,as for those younger than 16 I dont agree with that at all.
It is a nice area. I, however, do agree that there are way too many bars (river deaths and now this).
Both parties are stupid, but come on...to the guy asking about the legality...anyone under 18 is considered a minor, so if you take nude photos of them, thats child pornography. BLACK and WHITE...no gray. He deserves whatever he gets in jail
Both parties are stupid, but come on...to the guy asking about the legality...anyone under 18 is considered a minor, so if you take nude photos of them, thats child pornography. BLACK and WHITE...no gray. He deserves whatever he gets in jail
Take it you are replying to me,I'd understand if it someone over 18 taking pics of someone under 18 but that isnt the case here,from what I've read both the girl & guy knew what they were doing,just when they split things went too far.
What is the legal age of concent in La Crosse out of interest,did a search on Google but couldnt find anything,1 thing that bothers me is descrepencies between sex,porn(images or video) amongst other things in various places in the world,why cant things be the same age?,its stupid you can be classed as an adult/old enough for one thing but a minor/child for another.
Edit: seems to be 18
Last edited by jameseuk on 22 May 2008 - 21:17
A 17-year old with pictures of his naked 16-year old girlfriend that she took and sent to him. Application of the law outside of it's intended realm of protecting children from adult predators.
Count 2: Sexual Exploitation of a Child
Again, the girl took the pictures of herself with a camera phone and sent them to him. They should charge her with making child pornography of herself.
Count 3: Defamation
Seems as though he provided proof through evidence supported in the said photograph... "Yo, U see how big her hole is! Its from me!" Congratulations to the prosecutor for injecting themselves into a meaningless teen argument, it's probably a woman as these charges are obviously biased against the boyfriend.
The only thing the defendant is guilty of is being a dumbass. He should have taken the photo down when the cops requested him to do so. MySpace could have removed the photo and his account at anytime the police requested. Furthermore, I don't think it's proper to press three separate charges for a single incident (if you even define it as crime)... I'll give this my ridiculous news item of the week award.
If he hadn't done that, this was over with a warning.
If he loses in court I hope every single one of you who made comments about him (who is 17 and would also count as a child) getting anal raped in prison go to jail too because according to you being dumb is a crime so therefore yorue all guilty of it too.
I agree,why should the girl get away?
It's the girl's fault for taking them, sure. But she took them herself.
Must be a humiliating experience for her, I'd imagine. I'm surprised MySpace didn't take them off themselves shortly after they were being posted.
This graphic from Wikipedia shows the age of consent throughout the world. Note the differences in the various states of the US:
Last edited by roadwarrior on 24 May 2008 - 14:59
Are you serious? Someone said self-taken, child pornography pictures are a form of art? For God's sake I hope they were being purposefully ironic, but this is the internet so who knows. Come on, what the hell kind of argument is that when Annie Leibovitz, a professional photographer for a highly stylized "artistic" magazine, gets guff for taking non-nude pictures of a 15-year old girl? Remember that? It was last week or maybe the week before, featuring Miley Cyrus. Anyone remember that?
Seems like child porn is getting a lot of press lately, which will hopefully act as a deterrent to the idiots propagating it. But, this is a messed up world with very little justice and even fewer happy endings, so I'm sure the problem will spiral on through the gyre of time.
What I do find surprising is him blackmailing her with this, AND acting all badass to police.
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