Colorado School Principal Unfairly Accused of Possessing Child Porn
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Here’s another story showing that Americans must beware of corruption in their local governments. It’s always tempting to focus on national politics because it tends to garner the most attention from the press. But unfortunately, local governments are engaging in tyranny all across the country every day.
This story about a school principal in Colorado provides a disturbing example. A school administrator was accused of possessing child pornography after an investigation of a school texting case that took place last April. 32-year-old Bradley Bass could be facing 12 years in prison and potentially being labeled as a sex offender.
Bass’ situation originated when he allegedly violated a law saying that possessing explicit images of a child, even in unintentionally, is considered the same as doing so deliberately. “Even parents could be prosecuted under the broad language of the statute, according to the Colorado Sun.
Experts told the news outlet that this situation “raises questions about the training administrators receive to deal with increasingly frequent incidents of students’ sexting and the legal liability they face for doing so.”
From the report:
The case began when Bass and Brush School District’s director of secondary schools, Scott Hodgson, investigated a tip about students sharing explicit images in April. They found photos on a few students’ phones, saved in the disappearing photo application Snapchat. Worried the boys could delete the photos by logging into their Snapchat accounts remotely, Bass used his work cellphone to take photos of the students’ phones. They were then transferred to a folder on the school’s server that few people had access to.
After police learned the administrators had taken photos of the boys’ phones, they arrested them.
One of the significant factors in the case is related to when the district informed police that they were investigating the tip regarding explicit images. Bass and one of his colleagues, who was also facing charges until a judge dismissed them, claimed they informed the police from the beginning after a parent emailed the school resource officer noting her concern about “young girls sending inappropriate pictures to othe
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