Memphis police charge recruit with homemade porn

[Ghost in the Machine]

Memphis police charge recruit with homemade porn

Associated Press - January 7, 2010 7:25 AM ET

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Police in Memphis say they charged a police academy recruit after finding a video of him having sex with a juvenile.

Police spokeswoman Karen Rudolph told The Commercial Appeal the case against 26-year-old Gregory Marshall was "open and shut."

Marshall was charged with exploitation of a minor by electronic means, statutory rape and photographing an individual without consent. He was also dismissed from the academy.

A police affidavit stated Marshall tried to get a 17-year-old girl to let him record them having sex, but she refused. Police said Marshall is accused of then secretly videotaping a sexual encounter with the girl, who was 17.

Police found several tapes of sex acts, but it wasn't immediately clear whether they had been made secretly.

http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11783182

[Soylent Brice]

1. i'm shocked they actually dismissed him from the academy.

perhaps this will free him up to run for office.

[leeroysphitz]

2. Psychopaths with badges. n/t

[LoZoccolo]

3. It looks like the news station is covering for him with this sanitized headline.

The reference to "homemade porn" leaves out a lot of detail central to the criminal charges. When all I saw was the headline, I clicked on the thread wondering why he'd be charged simply for recording himself and/or his partner until I actually went and read what really happened inside the story.