Maurice Washington Faces Charges

BigRedBuster said:
Is there a difference between sending it to the person in the video...and "distributing" it to multiple people who aren't?
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Yes there is a difference. An element of the crime of revenge porn is not keeping it private. A strong legal argument can be made that sending it back to the person it is of is not distributing it to the public. Instead, the prosecution will have a tough time meeting element no. 3 of the crime. 

 
Hedley Lamarr said:
Interesting take, I could see that being a scenario. I am just going to sit back and wait to see the rest of this unfold because we only know one side. Innocent until proven guilty is my style 
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I think she hurt him when they broke up and maybe this video surfaced and took him by surprise and was the reason they broke up. It’s not like out of revenge for being hurt he posted the video online.  

 
BigRedBuster said:
Is there a chance one of the boys who was involved in producing the film was playing on Mo's phone and thought it would be funny to send it to her from his phone?

I know the chances of that are slim.  But, I've known kids that age to do some pretty stupid stuff like that.  Heck, I had a friend get my wife's phone one time and was sending me text messages and thought it was funny as hell.  It's possible something like that happened here.
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Yes. Anything is possible. He may have had nothing to do with this at all.

OR (and this is most likely, Occam's Razor & all that) he did something stupid, only this "something stupid" turns out to be a pretty major crime with (potentially) pretty serious consequences.

 
knapplc said:
Yes. Anything is possible. He may have had nothing to do with this at all.

OR (and this is most likely, Occam's Razor & all that) he did something stupid, only this "something stupid" turns out to be a pretty major crime with (potentially) pretty serious consequences.
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Yep.  

 
BigRedBuster said:
Is there a chance one of the boys who was involved in producing the film was playing on Mo's phone and thought it would be funny to send it to her from his phone?

I know the chances of that are slim.  But, I've known kids that age to do some pretty stupid stuff like that.  Heck, I had a friend get my wife's phone one time and was sending me text messages and thought it was funny as hell.  It's possible something like that happened here.
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Earlier in this thread, I said we should wait to hear from Mo before passing judgement. If he claims he didn't send the text, then we'll wait for the outcome of an investigation.

What I'm saying though, is that if he did send the text that he should be kicked off the team regardless of the legal details.

 
IF he was in the video or recorded the video I think we all would agree he should be gone today...BUT he wasn't in the video and didn't record it. He also DID NOT send it to any other person that we are aware of besides the girl who was in the video, who also happens to be his ex who broke up with him years past and decided to contact him because she saw he was a D1 football player. 

 
knapplc said:
Yes. Anything is possible. He may have had nothing to do with this at all.

OR (and this is most likely, Occam's Razor & all that) he did something stupid, only this "something stupid" turns out to be a pretty major crime with (potentially) pretty serious consequences.
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This. The most likely scenario is that he did something stupid and didn't realize that he could get in major trouble for it. 

 
Cdog923 said:
The second after he opened it, when he didn't contact the police, he was guilty. 
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That's like saying someone slipped cocaine in your backpack without you knowing, then you found it and flushed it. But because you didn't call the police you are guilty of being a drug dealer.

Don't get me wrong the "alleged" incident is terrible. However, had he just not went full retard and sent the picture to the victim and deleted it we wouldn't be here. At this point he's guilty of being an absolute dumb@ss until he goes through the judicial process.

 
knapplc said:
The video, according to her story, came from his phone.

Occam's Razor tells us he likely sent the video. But we don't know it was him. Could have been someone else on his phone. Could have been someone entirely different and she's lying.  We don't know anything yet.
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This is a very poor post Knapp.

I mean, is Dr. Strangelove replying to you or did my cat run across the keyboard? 

 
According to the investigation:

She is raped (her words) in 2016 in California.  It's recorded by the 2 male individuals and sent to people in the school.

One of the male individuals was arrested in 2016 for the video distribution.

Washington receives the video in 2016.  Then he moves to Texas sometime between February 2016 and March 2018.

Washington sends the video to the girl in March of 2018.  

I'm thinking this wasn't a friend goofing around with Washington's phone.

 
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