A teenage boy’s mother was threatened with arrest when she refused to let him accept a caution for forwarding a naked selfie a girl had sent to him.For obstruction. Picture that. If it doesn't make your blood boil, you aren't human.
Investigators later revealed he was suspected of distributing ‘indecent images of children’ after the girl sent him the unsolicited photo.Why wasn't she visited by the cops? Yeah, don't bother. It was a rhetorical question.
Police wanted him to accept a youth caution but his mother refused, fearing it could harm his career when disclosed in any future vetting procedure.Which it absolutely could. And which is why you never, ever accept one, if you're smart.
‘They wouldn’t tell me anything … it was very much guilty until proven innocent,’ the mother told the BBC.
‘I think in my head I thought someone is going to come and say, “I’m really sorry this has been blown totally out of proportion. We realise it is kids being kids.”’Sorry, love, identity politics and results-based policing - not to mention the Alison Saunders effect - mean that all your son was to these cops was an easy win.
And like most scavengers, if the prey puts up too much of a fight, they slink away...
Seven months later the original officer in the case delivered a letter saying there would be no further action.A letter. What a craven, cowardly act. Probably sent it to the wrong address, too...
Leicestershire Police said the family have not complained about their treatment.They are all over LBC now doing just that, you moron!
A spokesman said the force took ‘appropriate, proportionate and necessary action’.Here, I think you need this:
Look up those words. You clearly have no idea what they mean.
The only one who comes out of this with any credit is the boy's mum for not giving in to the police. The boy should not have sent the photo on. Most worrying of all is that there are teenagers out there who doesn't know how to use a proxy server or whatever Dark Net option is currently available.
ReplyDelete@jack.
ReplyDeleteIt most probably arrived on his phone from the girl (most selfies arrive that way) and he just passed it on as they do.
The girl was the stupid one in the first place for taking the picture and sending it to the boy in the hope he would be interested in her - they don't talk to each other now a days, everything is via the smart phone.
Well done boy's mum for "obstructing" by refusing to allow her son to be cautioned for a fake crime.
ReplyDeleteWPC Jaded, don't try to defend your colleagues, they were CM bullies
The police continue to waste resources (ie our money) on trivia such as this. Kids who annoy each other via anti-social media are so easy to catch and caution this improving the crime stats. When will the police service learn that this is not what we want them to prioritise. Let them send teams of officers to raid the homes of burglars, drug dealers and other groups of offenders. Give them a hard time, not daft kids.
ReplyDeleteWell done to the brave mum who stood up for her son.
As the law stands, the same offence had been committed by both the boy and girl, did she accept a caution?
ReplyDeleteIf you told children that sending a naked image of a child (including themselves) would result in them losing their smartphones until they were 18 and having to use a basic £9.99 phone instead, this would cease to be an issue.
Albert-I completely agree....unfortunately some of my colleagues get terrible tunnel vision when dealing with sex crimes.
ReplyDeleteJaded.
"Most worrying of all is that there are teenagers out there who doesn't know how to use a proxy server or whatever Dark Net option is currently available. "
ReplyDeleteYes, it's not often plod get to be better at the techie stuff than the public... ;)
"The girl was the stupid one in the first place for taking the picture and sending it to the boy..."
Well, quite. But according to Progressive Logic, she's still somehow the 'victim'... :/
"The police continue to waste resources (ie our money) on trivia such as this."
Because it's usually an easy result. This time, they came up against a mother who wasn't prepared to back down.
"As the law stands, the same offence had been committed by both the boy and girl, did she accept a caution?"
*hollow laughter*
"....unfortunately some of my colleagues get terrible tunnel vision when dealing with sex crimes."
And now we've all seen this. Buckle up, there's turbulance ahead!