Tangentially related, but a senior boy on my daughter's high school swim team was arrested Friday on 3 counts of coercing and distributing child sexual abuse material. The rumor is it was pics of his 15 year old girlfriend and honestly thats probably best case scenario. If that's true, he's still an idiot, but I don't know that it should ruin his future.
However, the report said the police got a tip from the national missing children and abuse center, so I can't imagine someone reported him on a lark. If it's actually kiddie porn, we were all young and edgy at 18, but we knew what the was too past the line and the punishment needs to be severe.
It's a sad story, it was the day before his senior prom and a month before graduation. My daughter said he was the nicest kid. Got there early, stayed late, always helped and cheered people on. She said he never seemed off and got the team character award every year she was on the ream. Evidently he came to school Monday but the school didn't know about the arrest. They found out mid-day and had a mock fire drill and pulled him out of class.
Gotta love private schools.
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