Facebook Posts That Got People In Trouble With The Law
Why don't you just call the police and tell them directly next time?
Published 11 years ago in Wtf
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Police say that 39-year-old John Forehand, father of a 13-year-old girl, tried to solicit sex from her via Facebook. Going by Bad Daddy, Forehand proposed that they meet for sex, but the girl told her mother, who alerted police. The state Child Predator Unit and Ephrata Police arrested Forehand when he arrived at a predetermined meeting location.
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Ahmad Shuman, Naim Hanna, Antoine Ramia and Shebel Qasab of Lebanon were arrested after they created a Facebook page in which they criticize Lebanese President Michel Sleiman. Due to the countrys strict rules against libel, slander and defamation, the page entitled We dont want a hypocrite as president, was found to be outside the norms of free speech.
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Denise New of Arkansas was convicted of misdemeanor harassment for posting inflammatory posts on her sons Facebook page. After an argument, the mother mistakenly made several posts on the boys Facebook page including the following: The only mistake I ever made was having a kid. A judge ordered her to complete classes for parenting and anger-management and pay a fine of $435.
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On May 14, the body of Genesis Sims, 9, was found by construction workers in the crawl space of a vacant Colorado home. Thanks to a Facebook Message left by the girls father, Hanif Sims, and his girlfriend, Monique Lynch. The Police were able to track them down. The message states that they found Genesis unconscious in the bathroom and that they wanted to give their side of the story before turning themselves in.
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Justin Carter is a 19-year-old who has been in jail since February 2013 due to an allegedly sarcastic Facebook remark which reads: I think Ima shoot up a kindergarten And watch the blood of the innocent rain down And eat the beating heart of one of them. Hes currently awaiting a trial even though he and his family maintain that the Facebook messages were meant to be sarcastic.
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Matthew Woods, A teenager in England was sentenced to three months in jail after making numerous inappropriate comments about April Jones, 5, and Madeleine McCann, 4, who disappeared. Woods Facebook messages included: I woke up this morning in the back of a transit van with two beautiful little girls, I found April in a hopeless place.
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Paula Asher,18, was sent to jail after hitting a car with four teenagers in it, driving off, getting a DUI, and then joking about it on Facebook. The parents of the teens in the car saw Ashers message and asked a local judge to have her remove the post. But Asher declined for which she was sentenced to two days in prison.
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After 15 years apart, Prince Sagala reconnected with her abducted children on Facebook. Faustino Utrera, the father of Sagalas son and daughter, allegedly took the children from their California home in 1995. After initially contacting her daughter through Facebook, Sagala alerted police, who thanks to Facebook tracked the girl to central Florida and arrested Faustino Utrera.
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