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and yet no criminal charges have been brought, WTF?


What crime would you charge?


Distributing images of certain body parts the person depicted believed private is disorderly conduct in California.[1]

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...


If someone is so humiliated by this that they commit suicide why would they go through the emotional agony of going to court and having their humiliation litigated in front of a judge and to be put into public record under their name forever?


Their question suggested they maybe didn't know it was a crime. I thought people should know it is.

I think rasz's point was a prosecutor could bring charges now. And public record regulations have privacy exceptions.


https://www.courts.ca.gov/1258.htm?rdeLocaleAttr=en ? How F** is California If someone was harassed to the point of committing suicide and DA doesnt press charges?


Welcome to the complete ineffectiveness of the legal system to prosecute sexual assault and harassment. "Nothing we can do" has been the universal response to every woman I know who has experienced criminal assault and harassment.




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