We had our hearing yesterday
Our defense was to drop all charges, as it may not be a crime for a minor to, "sexual abuse" another minor for looking at pics on the net and also the D.A. had to prove that these were infact real pics.
I got a chance to look at the pics, I dunno what I was expecting, a playboy type pic I suppose, but these were like poloroid pics of girls in high school at a beach! :( Gross to me anyway. I f I had to guess I'd say it was like a beer party at a beach somewhere and somebody talked these girls into stripping.
They wanted to do a 30 day elavlation of my some in-house somewhere to make sure he was just a kid being a kid, (they all thought that but they have to cover their kesters).
When we said that we had a brief to drop them and our lawyer told then it didn't matter HOW LONG it took to get it dropped, (continues after continues), they came back with, a 30 day evaulation with a counseler, then if he doesn't have a problem, then everything is dropped cleaned off his record. Best of all my youngest can come back home. :) :). it was gggrrreeeaatt to pick him up and drive him home.
I told the court we had a apt with a guy at 3pm that day, the judge was happy with what we desided.
I had my son dressed like a, "preppy", black slacks, white shirt, green sweater vest, hair short and neat. The judge commneted how how nice he was dressed and told him he was well spoken, (a tip to other parents, a LOT of kids were dressed like they were going to the hood, instead of a court).
I get the feeling that if we pushed we may have had it dropped, but over all I'm happy with the way it's turning out. I wanted to make sure my son was just being a kid when he looked at these. The court system wanted a quick finish to it, (assemble line justice, it's sad, sad, sad to watch it in action).
Last night my sons was in a much better mood. We joked @ at dinner, played cards after, talked for the first time in a long, long time. Both boys smiled, laughed, we almost normal. My youngest is going to finish the school year where he's at now, then back to our school dist. next fall, one more comute in the morning, small price to pay for his smiling face. :)
I woke up at 3 am this morning and freak out thinking it was a dream, til I went in and checked on them. Brought a tear to my eye to see just how close I came to losing them over 6 stupid pics.
The pics came up on a 1 page as a trailer, so he didn't look at 6 different ones. they were on a page oh, maybe 1 1/2" X 1 1/2". He didn't even inlarge any of them.
Funny after thought, the judge pulled all the legal people, the state police computer geek to the bench. Seems she, (it was a lady) got some pics of little kids on her computer!!!! She didn't know what to do with it!!!
They asked me if they can trash my computer, cuz the pis were there forever, (so much for being able to, "clean out your hard drive). I told them if they didn't I was going to get even with the computers, hammmer and torch style!
Joe