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You Can Have Sex With Them; Just Don't Photograph Them: A former cop's 15-year prison sentence illustrates the absurdity of federal child porn laws. In the spring and summer of 2006, Eric Rinehart, at the time a 34-year-old police officer in the small town of Middletown, Indiana, began consensual sexual relationships with two young women, ages 16 and 17. One of the women had contacted Rinehart through his MySpace page. He had known the other one, the daughter of a man who was involved in training police officers, for most of her life. Rinehart was going through a divorce at the time. The relationships came to the attention of local authorities, and then federal authorities, when one of the girls mentioned it to a guidance counselor. Whatever you might think of Rinehart's judgment or ethics, his relationships with the girls weren't illegal. The age of consent in Indiana is 16. That is also the age of consent in federal territories. Rinehart got into legal trouble because one of the girls mentioned to him that she had posed for sexually provocative photos for a previous boyfriend and offered to do the same for Rinehart. Rinehart lent her his camera, which she returned with the promised photos. Rinehart and both girls then took additional photos and at least one video, which he downloaded to his computer. (Reason) | |||
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keywords: David Hamilton, Eric Rinehart, Families Against Mandatory Minimums, Federal Bureau Of Investigation, Indiana, Jack Weinstein, Mary Price, Middletown IN, Myspace, Pennsylvania, Police, Pornography, Prison-industrial Complex, Steven Debrota, The New York Times, US Congress, United States, William Lee, Youth Rights
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Video of SWAT Raid on Missouri Family SWAT team breaks into home, fires seven rounds at family's pit bull and corgi (?!) as a seven-year-old looks on. They found a "small amount" of marijuana, enough for a misdemeanor charge. The parents were then charged with child endangerment. (Reason) | |||
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Would Obama-As-The-Penguin Posters Have Been OK? Vandalism is likely to be the charge in the case of the Clermont, Florida Joker posters (Reason) | |||
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The Emerging Consensus About the Need for Debate Last month I noted that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggar had said "it's time for debate" about marijuana legalization (Reason) | |||
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Thomas O'Brien's MySpace Hoax A federal prosecutor perverts the law to punish an unpopular woman (Reason) | |||
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An Inconvenient Truth Gore as climate exaggerator - Gore claims to be presenting the "scientific consensus" on global warming. But is that so? (Reason) | |||
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Earth Day, Then and Now The planet's future has never looked better. Here's why. - The prophets of doom were not simply wrong, but spectacularly wrong. (Reason) | |||
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Raiding the Vipers' Nest The BATF claims "Team Viper" was a radical militia group bent on committing terrorist acts. But where is the evidence? (Reason) | |||
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