A Manassas City teenager accused of “sexting” a video to his girlfriend is now going through a search warrant in which Manassas City police and Prince William County prosecutors want to take a photograph of his erect penis, probably forcing the teen to turn out to be erect by taking him to a hospital and giving him an injection, the teen’s attorneys stated. A Prince William County decide allowed the 17-year-old to depart the realm with out the warrant being served or the photographs being taken — but.
The teen is going through two felony costs, for possession of kid pornography and manufacturing little one pornography, which may lead not solely to incarceration till he’s 21, however inclusion on the state intercourse offender information base for, probably, the remainder of his life. David Culver of NBC Washington first reported the story and interviewed the teen’s guardian, his aunt, who was shocked on the lengths Prince William authorities had been prepared to go to make a sexting case in juvenile court docket.
“The prosecutor’s job is to seek justice,” stated the teen’s protection lawyer, Jessica Harbeson Foster. “What is just about this? How does this advance the interest of the Commonwealth? This is a 17-year-old who goes to school every day, plays football, has never been in trouble with the law before. Now he’s saddled with two felonies and the implication that he’s a sexual predator. I don’t mind trying the case. My goal is to stop the search warrant. I don’t want him to go through that. Taking him down to the hospital so he can get an erection in front of all those cops, that’s traumatizing.”
Manassas City Police spokeswoman Adrienne Helms stated the division wouldn’t remark, and Detective David E. Abbott, the lead investigator on the case, didn’t return a name in search of remark. And nobody besides a Prince William Justice of the Peace has seen the affidavit and search warrant for the photographs — they aren’t made public till after they’re served after which returned to the courthouse. The Post is just not naming the teen defendant.