You Can Have Sex With Them; Just Don't Photograph Them

[JBeukema]

In the spring and summer of 2006, Eric Rinehart, at the time a 34-year-old police officer in the small town of Middletown, Indiana, began consensual sexual relationships with two young women, ages 16 and 17. One of the women had contacted Rinehart through his MySpace page. He had known the other one, the daughter of a man who was involved in training police officers, for most of her life. Rinehart was going through a divorce at the time. The relationships came to the attention of local authorities, and then federal authorities, when one of the girls mentioned it to a guidance counselor.
Whatever you might think of Rinehart's judgment or ethics, his relationships with the girls weren't illegal. The age of consent in Indiana is 16. That is also the age of consent in federal territories. Rinehart got into legal trouble because one of the girls mentioned to him that she had posed for sexually provocative photos for a previous boyfriend and offered to do the same for Rinehart. Rinehart lent her his camera, which she returned with the promised photos. Rinehart and both girls then took additional photos and at least one video, which he downloaded to his computer.

You Can Have Sex With Them; Just Don't Photograph Them - Reason Magazine

 

[Montrovant]

There is just so much wrong with this

The first thing that popped into my head as I started reading is a Family Guy skit, where police go into a hotel room where a man is paying a woman to have sex. They say they are going to arrest them for prostitution, but the man says it's fine because they are going to film it, so it's porn. Sort of like this in reverse.

The article brings up problems with mandatory sentencing, clashes between state and federal law, unnecessary prosecution, just a host of issues.

 

[FA_Q2]

Amazing how idiotic the law is at times.

 

[chanel]

As a police officer, he should have known the law. As a police officer, he is in a position of power, not unlike a teacher or priest. The law may be ambiguous, but justice will prevail. Karma's a bitch pervert.

 

[George Costanza]

As a police officer, he should have known the law. As a police officer, he is in a position of power, not unlike a teacher or priest. The law may be ambiguous, but justice will prevail. Karma's a bitch pervert.

 

[Montrovant]

As a police officer, he should have known the law. As a police officer, he is in a position of power, not unlike a teacher or priest. The law may be ambiguous, but justice will prevail. Karma's a bitch pervert.

Are you saying you consider it justice that a man can legally have a sexual relationship, but if he takes a photograph of any of the sexual activities in that legal relationship, he has committed a crime? I get that impression because of the final sentence in your post.

 

[chanel]

No. I think it's justice that he is now in trouble and he has been publicly exposed for his perversion. A 34 year old married cop may LEGALLY sleep with a child of 16, but it is still morally reprehensible. If it weren't for the porno law, he may never have been exposed. Karma.

 

[JBeukema]

No. I think it's justice that he is now in trouble and he has been publicly exposed for his perversion. A 34 year old married cop may LEGALLY sleep with a child of 16, but it is still morally reprehensible

If she's old enough to make her own decisions

and he's old enough to make his own decisions

What's so horrible about them making eachother happy?

 

[Two Thumbs]

16 is just to young to be fucking a grown man let alone with another teenager.

In trouble for the pics? lame

man, my heads going to implode, my oldest is 16, she could have girls like this around her.

 

[spectrumc01]

It's a good thing we didn't set the age of consent laws in this country until after the human race was already established. If people had to wait until 16/17 years of age to procreate the human race would have died out in the early stages, say around 300 -400 ad.

Families have been and still are trading off daughters and arranging marriages, and have been doing so for centuries. It is illegal to have sexual relations with these girls that are under age, but it isn't if the parents give their consent for the two to get married first. Our laws on this matter are bizzare at best.

 

[chanel]

No. I think it's justice that he is now in trouble and he has been publicly exposed for his perversion. A 34 year old married cop may LEGALLY sleep with a child of 16, but it is still morally reprehensible

If she's old enough to make her own decisions

and he's old enough to make his own decisions

What's so horrible about them making eachother happy?

It just is.

Sincerely,

Chanel, mother/high school teacher

Karma's a bitch.

 

[FA_Q2]

No. I think it's justice that he is now in trouble and he has been publicly exposed for his perversion. A 34 year old married cop may LEGALLY sleep with a child of 16, but it is still morally reprehensible

If she's old enough to make her own decisions

and he's old enough to make his own decisions

What's so horrible about them making eachother happy?

Of course not which is why having legal consent at 16 is simply wrong....

 

[JBeukema]

No. I think it's justice that he is now in trouble and he has been publicly exposed for his perversion. A 34 year old married cop may LEGALLY sleep with a child of 16, but it is still morally reprehensible

If she's old enough to make her own decisions

and he's old enough to make his own decisions

What's so horrible about them making eachother happy?

It just is.

Yes... god forbid they find happiness together

 

[Mini 14]

In the spring and summer of 2006, Eric Rinehart, at the time a 34-year-old police officer in the small town of Middletown, Indiana, began consensual sexual relationships with two young women, ages 16 and 17. One of the women had contacted Rinehart through his MySpace page. He had known the other one, the daughter of a man who was involved in training police officers, for most of her life. Rinehart was going through a divorce at the time. The relationships came to the attention of local authorities, and then federal authorities, when one of the girls mentioned it to a guidance counselor.
Whatever you might think of Rinehart's judgment or ethics, his relationships with the girls weren't illegal. The age of consent in Indiana is 16. That is also the age of consent in federal territories. Rinehart got into legal trouble because one of the girls mentioned to him that she had posed for sexually provocative photos for a previous boyfriend and offered to do the same for Rinehart. Rinehart lent her his camera, which she returned with the promised photos. Rinehart and both girls then took additional photos and at least one video, which he downloaded to his computer.

You Can Have Sex With Them; Just Don't Photograph Them - Reason Magazine

Your flippant fascination with pedophilia is beginning to concern me.

 

[JBeukema]

In the spring and summer of 2006, Eric Rinehart, at the time a 34-year-old police officer in the small town of Middletown, Indiana, began consensual sexual relationships with two young women, ages 16 and 17. One of the women had contacted Rinehart through his MySpace page. He had known the other one, the daughter of a man who was involved in training police officers, for most of her life. Rinehart was going through a divorce at the time. The relationships came to the attention of local authorities, and then federal authorities, when one of the girls mentioned it to a guidance counselor.
Whatever you might think of Rinehart's judgment or ethics, his relationships with the girls weren't illegal. The age of consent in Indiana is 16. That is also the age of consent in federal territories. Rinehart got into legal trouble because one of the girls mentioned to him that she had posed for sexually provocative photos for a previous boyfriend and offered to do the same for Rinehart. Rinehart lent her his camera, which she returned with the promised photos. Rinehart and both girls then took additional photos and at least one video, which he downloaded to his computer.

You Can Have Sex With Them; Just Don't Photograph Them - Reason Magazine

Your flippant fascination with pedophilia is beginning to concern me.

You're an idiot. The article has nothing to do with paedophilia and the officer wasn't charged with or accused of engaging in any sexual act with children.

 

[Mini 14]

You Can Have Sex With Them; Just Don't Photograph Them - Reason Magazine

Your flippant fascination with pedophilia is beginning to concern me.

You're an idiot. The article has nothing to do with paedophilia and the officer wasn't charged with or accused of engaging in any sexual act with children.

I'm not commenting on the article. I'm commenting on my observations which seem to indicate a growing trend with you lately. That trend is concerning, not so much the article.

 

[JBeukema]

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

16 is just to young to be fucking a grown man let alone with another teenager.

In trouble for the pics? lame

man, my heads going to implode, my oldest is 16, she could have girls like this around her.

When did it become too young? When my great-grandparents got married in 1912 my great-grandfather was 26 and my great-grandmother was 17. It never used to be all that uncommon for women to get married at a very young age, as teenagers.

I got married at 20 and my ex-wife was 19.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, I'm just posing the question at what point did this suddenly become frowned upon.

 

[Intense]

No. I think it's justice that he is now in trouble and he has been publicly exposed for his perversion. A 34 year old married cop may LEGALLY sleep with a child of 16, but it is still morally reprehensible. If it weren't for the porno law, he may never have been exposed. Karma.

I agree. The girls may not have known better, He should have.

 

[AVG-JOE]

Amazing how idiotic the law is at times.

That's because between the lobbyists authoring the laws and the lawyers using the courts to interpret the laws in pursuit of profits, what is a 'legal' thing to do is not always the 'right' thing to do.