By Erin Durkin
The NYPD supports making it a crime to spread “revenge porn” — naked
pictures or sexual images that are posted online to get back at an an
ex.
“The Police Department supports the creation of criminal sanctions to
hold perpetrators accountable,” NYPD legislative affairs director Oleg
Chernyavsky testified at a City Council hearing on a bill that would
make revenge porn a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail.
It’s already illegal in New York state to secretly record sexual
encounters — but it’s not a crime if explicit snaps are voluntarily
shared with someone who later makes them public without the subject’s
consent.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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