We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. The suicide of the honor-roll student underscores the difficulties school authorities face when confronting students suspected of recording and sharing sexual images:. Should they wait until parents arrive to question students and search their cellphones for illicit photos or video? Or do they have the authority to investigate crimes that might include child pornography?
Ex-lawmaker serving 8 years in prison for child porn dies
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January 23, am Updated January 23, am. CHICAGO — A federal judge in Chicago has dismissed a lawsuit brought against a suburban Chicago school by parents of a student who killed himself after staff warned him he might have to register as a sex offender because they suspected he made a video of himself having sex with a classmate without her knowledge. Hours later, he walked to the top of a five-story parking deck and jumped to his death. His suicide underscored a dilemma for schools when confronting students suspected of recording and sharing sexual images. His parents, Maureen and Doug Walgren, sued the city of Naperville, the school district and individual school officials later in , accusing them of unnecessarily traumatizing their son and of violating his rights by not calling his parents first. Walgren played the audio for several friends but never texted or emailed it.
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During five years in the Illinois General Assembly, Keith Farnham cultivated a reputation as a successful businessman, military veteran, and ironically, co-sponsor of two bills increasing penalties for child pornography. On Thursday, the Elgin Democrat was sentenced to eight years in prison, on charges that he possessed and traded thousands of child porn images. Arriving in a wheelchair, toting oxygen, and according to his attorney, terminally ill, Farnham never contested the allegations. Ekl said doctors had informed Farnham that he could have as little as three or four months to live. Storino said Farnham first came under federal scrutiny in , when his email address was associated with child-related sites online.
