Man Gets 12-Year Jail Sentence For Planting Child Porn On Enemy's Computer 448
An anonymous reader writes with an update to a story we discussed in August about Neil Weiner, a man who sought to ruin the life of a school caretaker by planting child pornography on his computer. Weiner has now been convicted on two counts of possession of child pornography and one count of perverting the course of justice. He was sentenced to 12 years in jail.
"The judge told Weiner that his plot to have Mr. Thompson sacked and prosecuted very nearly succeeded. Police had been careful not to make public their arrest of the caretaker and only informed those at the school who needed to know, he said. 'But you gratuitously and spitefully informed the local press so that he and his wife suffered the distress of the unwelcome publicity which followed.' Mr. Thompson's health and that of his wife suffered. The judge said: 'There are still those who believe, and probably always will, that he is a pedophile. I am wholly satisfied that Mr. Thompson is innocent.' ... Weiner had discovered the caretaker's password by looking over his shoulder one day and been caught doing so. When Mr. Thompson was asked why he did not change it, he said he wished he had, adding: 'Who in their worst nightmares would could have thought that anyone could stoop to do what he did?'"
Re:Lethal Weapon VII (Score:5, Funny)
The ultimate weapon of the twenty first century: a catapult that fires naked children at your enemies.
Re:Lethal Weapon VII (Score:3, Funny)
Boohoo. The guy was attempting to destroy the life of someone else and get them sent away to prison for a long time. He better start loosening his ass up now so it hurts less when he hits the cell block.
Re:Perverting the course of justice. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Mr Weiner (Score:4, Funny)
I'll tell you inmates one more time, quit playing with Mr. Weiner.
Re:Lethal Weapon VII (Score:2, Funny)
The ultimate weapon of the twenty first century: a catapult that fires naked children at your enemies.
Poor Michael Jackson died too early... He would have loved that idea!
Re:Lethal Weapon VII (Score:2, Funny)
Flying naked children are perfectly OK weapons of war.
However, 8X10 glossies of same are classified as illegal WMDs.
Re:Lethal Weapon VII (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah. By pirating child porn and not buying it you are actually HURTING the child pornagraphers. Think of all the lost purchases they are incurring due to PIRACY! They should join forces with the RIAA's legal teams and push for harder copyright infringement laws for pirating child porn.
Re:What a Happy Optimist Mr. Thompson Is... (Score:1, Funny)
His father didn't know about the lulz
Re:Perverting the course of justice. (Score:2, Funny)
And the award for Most Obvious Joke That Didn't Need to Be Said goes to.... [tearing envelope].... THAT guy!
Oh, come on man. Sure, we were all thinking of the joke, nobody really had to say it for humour value. But think of it like this: this dude is total scum, he tried to frame some other guy as being a pedophile and thus risk ruining his life, relationships, job, whatever. Do we not owe it to the victim to mock the name of the man who wronged him, no matter how obvious and hackneyed this joke may be?
So, for justice, great or otherwise, I think we should all take turns to mock the name of this pathetic man.
Neil Wiener, more like Kneel and suck Wiener.
Re:Lethal Weapon VII (Score:3, Funny)
The ultimate weapon of the twenty first century: a catapult that fires naked children at your enemies.
If you give those children MP3 players filled with pirated music this weapon might just be capable of destroying the world.
Now we know how people will get their music in the future.
Re:Perverting the course of justice. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:A word about "shoulder surfing" (Score:4, Funny)
That is actually good ethical practice in any environment when one is dealing with someone else entering passwords, PINs, etc. I've had quite a few of my customers in the field ask me why, when I ask them to enter their password for something, I turn around and walk off some feet away, and keep my back turned. The action itself seems to be a lot more effective in teaching them password control than just explaining it to them does ;-)
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