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Pool party

By Jeff Terrill

Fort Wayne Reader

2018-04-19

Senior owns several homes. He travels a bunch and takes a lot of vacations (Senior isn’t a real person).

Senior’s Indiana home is built by a lake. In addition to the main home, there’s a tennis court, outdoor pool, pool house, and a barn on the property. Senior pays a guy to maintain the home and to keep an eye on things. Senior is thrilled with his decision to install security cameras throughout the property.

Jimmy loves to have fun. He’s a senior in high school (he’s not a real person either. One of his friends tells him about a big lake home owned by a rich guy who doesn’t care if people swim there.

Jimmy checks it out with his friend. The pool and party area are amazing. Jimmy calls a few friends and invites them over. Before long, Jimmy is hosting one of the year’s best parties! He tells everyone that the owner gave him permission to use his home.
After a couple of hours, a man shows up and starts yelling that he’s calling the police. The kids scatter and the place is empty in seconds.

The guy that watches the home contacts Senior. Senior tells him to call the police. Senior accesses the home’s video surveillance remotely. Senior downloads and emails portions of the video to the guy that monitors the property. He also emails the videos to his neighbors and asks them for help identifying the people on his property. Senior posts short videos on several social media sites showing some of the teenagers changing into their bathing suits in his barn and pool house.

The next day, a detective contacts Senior. The detective asks Senior about the video footage. Senior acknowledges that he emailed and posted the surveillance videos showing naked teenagers changing into bathing suits. The detective tells Senior that some of the boys and girls on the video are as young as sixteen.

The detective will continue his efforts to identify the people who entered Senior’s property without permission.

The detective will also continue with his investigation of Senior for child exploitation and creating child pornography. In a few weeks, Senior will be charged with multiple counts of knowingly disseminating electronic images of several naked teenagers who are under the age of eighteen. If convicted, he faces the possibility of years in prison and a lifetime sex offender registration requirement.

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Jeff Terrill is a partner/shareholder with the law firm of Arnold Terrill Anzini, P.C. Mr. Terrill represents clients accused of crimes throughout northeast Indiana. You can contact Mr. Terrill with any questions or comments at his office at 260.420.7777 or via email at jterrill@fortwaynedefense.com. Learn more about his firm at www.fortwaynedefense.com. This article expressed opinions and observations of the author, is not intended as legal advice and does not create an attorney-client relationship between the author and the reader. Please consult a qualified attorney with any legal questions or issues you might have. Thank you.

He’s been there a while.