Maurice Washington Faces Charges

Hedley Lamarr said:
I have been having the same response when someone calls this child porn....a 60 yr old man can watch dirty videos of 18 yr olds all day every day and never have a legal issue but an 18 yr old senior in HS cant have a 15 or 16 yr old picture or video of his gf/ex or whatever. One seems way more disgusting to me. 
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Teenagers looking at teenagers obviously, right?

 
Husker03 said:
Here’s the fallacy of your entire post.  You bring in adults and use them to draw your comparisons. Drinking and driving is illegal, but children that do it under 18 are handled completely differently. My children get sent videos of kids having sex with each other and you ask how I, an adult, would handle it. My daughter is in the video and you ask if I, and adult, would think it’s appropriate. If I, an adult teacher, knew about this, how would I handle it? We aren’t dealing with rational adults in any of the scenarios listed here. My heart was broken when I was 19. For a long time I can remember wanting to do crazy, borderline insane irrational things to try to get my ex back. I knew these things were not logical but I still thought about them. Seriously, if I would have had a smartphone at that time I may have ruined a lot, and I certainly wouldn’t have left that phase with even a shred of dignity. Instead I am lucky to only be embarrassed by the internal memories of these thoughts. I can’t believe what a fool I was at 16-20 and I’m not about to pull a holier than thou approach when considering those that still are. 
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So just let kids do whatever they want ay? No punishment from you the adult, just an 'awe shucks' because they are too young to know any better. Your entire post is a fallacy 

 
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Husker03 said:
Here’s the fallacy of your entire post.  You bring in adults and use them to draw your comparisons. Drinking and driving is illegal, but children that do it under 18 are handled completely differently. My children get sent videos of kids having sex with each other and you ask how I, an adult, would handle it. My daughter is in the video and you ask if I, and adult, would think it’s appropriate. If I, an adult teacher, knew about this, how would I handle it? We aren’t dealing with rational adults in any of the scenarios listed here. My heart was broken when I was 19. For a long time I can remember wanting to do crazy, borderline insane irrational things to try to get my ex back. I knew these things were not logical but I still thought about them. Seriously, if I would have had a smartphone at that time I may have ruined a lot, and I certainly wouldn’t have left that phase with even a shred of dignity. Instead I am lucky to only be embarrassed by the internal memories of these thoughts. I can’t believe what a fool I was at 16-20 and I’m not about to pull a holier than thou approach when considering those that still are. 
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Thanks for that perspective - I totally understand your point.  Kids today have to be so much more careful than we did.  I wonder if we don't do them a disservice by not really preparing them for the lasting ramifications of stuff like this.  

 
Redux said:
Teenagers looking at teenagers obviously, right?
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They were both in high school I guess. Heck when I was a senior my gf was 16 and I was 18. I am sure many here dated women a couple years younger than them. All I know is when I hear child porn I think of dirty sick bastards with pictures of little kids and s#!t. Not a teenager with a video of a teenager. 

 
swmohusker said:
It is common behavior.  Does it make it right? No.  

If it wad a normal kid they would probably receive probation or suspended sentence and move on.  Since the kid is question is a higher profile kid the stakes are higher and the scrutiny will be elevated.  

I would hope my sons and daughter have a fairly solid moral compass from all the work we have put in with them as children.  Pray, i dont have to deal with a situation like this with my children.  
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As a parent myself, I agree with your post.  It is amazing to read some of the responses.  By the tone of many of them, you can pretty much tell who has kids of their own or a sister that they would not want to see in this situation.  My God people, a 15 year old girl was sexually assaulted and we are worrying about a man/child who can run the football?  I am not going to judge anyone's moral compass, but there are many on this board that need to have their's reset.

 
It will be interesting to know what officials at UNL were told when contacted. I doubt we will ever know. It could be they were merely told there's an issue involving Maurice's ex-girlfriend and just need to interview Maurice as his name has came up in our investigation and nothing else - OR - it could be that Maurice is being investigated for revenge porn and child porn and he is on your University. First scenario the University probably handled it the right way, the second not so much an could open up UNL other legal issues. 

 
Nebfanatic said:
Sounds about appropriate for his actions imo. 
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I agree and I would lean towards this being the case as well considering the 'revenge' charge would be considered a misdemeanor, and the 'possession' charge is I think a non-violent felony.

I was not able to find and confirm if possession of CP is considered a non-violent felony, though. I think it's non-violent.

 
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knapplc said:
Again, definitions are important. This is not "video of the assault."  It's not an assault until it's shown in court to be an assault. She hasn't filed charges yet.  Lot's of stuff pending in the situation. 

As of now it's video of three kids which apparently show sex acts. Nobody has seen the video, so we can't be sure about what it shows. If it shows underage sex acts, even consensual, distribution of that video is a crime.
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I don't need a court to tell me what is or what isn't an assault. If you're not a female assault victim, you don't understand the emotional barriers involved in reporting an assault. Just because she hasn't reported it, yet, doesn't mean it didn't happen. PTSD isn't just for war veterans. 

It should be easy to confirm whether Maurice sent her the video or not. If he sent it, I don't want to hear another word about "high character". Legally guilty or not, sending that to anyone is not what I consider "high character".

 
10_point_buck said:
As a parent myself, I agree with your post.  It is amazing to read some of the responses.  By the tone of many of them, you can pretty much tell who has kids of their own or a sister that they would not want to see in this situation.  My God people, a 15 year old girl was sexually assaulted and we are worrying about a man/child who can run the football?  I am not going to judge anyone's moral compass, but there are many on this board that need to have their's reset.
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The problem is that the sexual assault has not been defined or prosecuted even while a video of it has existed in public hands for almost 3 years.  You have to ask yourself how THAT could ever happen.  And one of the answers is, it’s not a sexual assault at all.  If the video isn’t clear enough for the legal system to make a case after 3 years, why would we assume it was clear enough for Maurice to draw that conclusion?

 
Lonestar_Husker said:
I don't need a court to tell me what is or what isn't an assault. If you're not a female assault victim, you don't understand the emotional barriers involved in reporting an assault. Just because she hasn't reported it, yet, doesn't mean it didn't happen. PTSD isn't just for war veterans. 

It should be easy to confirm whether Maurice sent her the video or not. If he sent it, I don't want to hear another word about "high character". Legally guilty or not, sending that to anyone is not what I consider "high character".
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She did report it.  3 years ago. Only how is she considering if she should pursue it as an assault. 

 
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