Roadrunner
Roadrunner
Up to 70 years if convicted....
...For pretending to be a teen himself. So these guys had consensual, mutually desireable interactions with someone they thought was another teen, but who turned out to be an adult 'catfishing.' And no actual physical interaction.
I can usually get behind prosecution of child sexual abusers, but in this instance the only crime I see is how he misrepresented himself as another teen. Ironicly then, had he actually been another teen this probably wouldn't have gone all the way to law enforcement (NM having a Romeo and Juliet provision.) Only did because he was in fact an adult.
Revoke his teaching credentials for life, put him on whoever's sex offender registry (NY and NM presumedly,) and charge him for manufacturing and possessing child pornography. But no way 70 years. Murderers and actual child rapists don't get that much. If he has no criminal history, 5 years max. Unlike other child pornography charges and crimes, this was wholely consensual. And while obtained under false pretenses, compared to other incidents comparatively minor.
1. He's a teacher so this is unethical.
2. The on line consensual part doesn't apply because the teens thought he was another teen and not a creepy adult who should know better.
3.He had child porn which is a serious offense.
4.He did make physical contact "Jonathan Cruz, 31, spilled his guts after he was busted at his pad at 60 East 9th Street in the East Village about 9:40 a.m., admitting he had showered at least five victims with hundreds of dollars of gift cards in exchange for fetish photos of their feet, crotch shots and also “thumbs-up” selfies, according to a criminal complaint."
5. As for the 70 years, you're losing sight of the actual charge. The boys must have been 16 years old and must have been consensual because he's not being charged for anything involving contact with them. He's being charged with the child porn which did harm the children posing for the porn and yes In my opinion that's worth 70 years. If he is looking at kiddy porn then he's one step away from doing it himself. Society is reading the writing on the wall and saying lock him up before the perv makes the next move.
6. I know PC is all the rage but a teacher dressing as Liberace? And the school system didn't question this? They didn't find this a tad weird?
1. Teachers and students have perfectly positive sexual relationships for thousands of years before our modern rejection of such things. Ancient Greek teacher-student sexual relationships gave the world Plato, Socrates, and democracy.
2. Doesn't matter if you misrepresent yourself online. "Mistake as to age" isn't a valid defense for stat rape charges, so why allow such a defense for the victim? "I didn't know he was an adult, looked udnerage."
3. From at least the article, the child pornography in question was of teenagers. While strictly speaking child porn is anyone udner 18, if just their feet, or them naked but not lewd/erect, may well get thrown out not meeting the legal criteria of child porn.
4. The gifts were presumedly mailed, or the teens woulda known he wasn't the teen they thought he was. Thus no physical contact.
5. Studies and statistical analysis proves people into child pornography are LESS, not more ikely to actually abuse children since they "make due" with the non-offending fantasy instead of seeking the reality.
6. Dunno if the school knew about the Liberace stuff.
I bet he did the Liberace shit AT school.