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Facebook posting brings charges

Police: Woman posted nude photo of another woman

By COLIN KYLER ckyler@timesobserver.com
POSTED: November 21, 2009

Warren City police have charged a Falconer, N.Y., woman with posting a nude photo of another woman on the Internet social networking site Facebook.

Police said Lindsay Head, 22, of 3237 Levant Gerry Rd., Falconer, who tends bar at Snuffy's Cafe and Lounge in Warren, used the cell phone of a male customer - whom she used to date - to post the photo.

Police said Head used the customer's cell phone without his knowledge sometime between 11 p.m. Nov. 12 and 12:30 a.m. Nov. 13.

A criminal complaint filed Thursday charges Head with obscene and other sexual materials and performances.

According to the criminal complaint filed at District Justice Art Zerbe's office, the victim reported to city police that her ex-boyfriend's Facebook account contained a nude photograph of her.

The victim claimed she had sent the photograph to her ex-boyfriend while they were dating over the last few years.

According to the affidavit, the victim told police that she had received several calls from friends telling her of the picture and felt her ex-boyfriend, with whom she broke up in August, must have posted it.

Police said in the complaint that Head allegedly sent text messages using the man's phone before using information stored in the phone, including the nude photo, to post the image on the man's Facebook page.

The victim told the Associated Press that she was "mortified" and "absolutely humiliated" when she saw the photo on her ex-boyfriend's Facebook page. She estimated it was posted for less than five hours.

According to the complaint, the ex-boyfriend told police that he removed the photo from his Facebook page after he received several angry messages from friends, who thought he had posted it.

Police said the ex-boyfriend also posted an apology on his Facebook page, explaining that Head had posted the photo.

According to the complaint, the ex-boyfriend told police that he had forgotten his phone at the bar and returned to find Head using it to send text messages to another woman he knew. He denied posting the photo but said Head sent him a text message acknowledging she sent the photo. He didn't immediately realize it showed up on Facebook, according to the complaint.

He has not been charged, according to police.

According to the complaint, the ex-boyfriend told police that the photograph was in his phone from when he was dating the victim and he had not deleted it yet.

He said he called Head, who didn't answer the phone, so he left a message on her cell phone.

The ex-boyfriend told police that he received a text back from Head at 11:07 a.m. stating, "WTF is your problem."

The complaint stated he sent a text back stating Head knew exactly what his problem is.

According to the complaint, the ex-boyfriend received a second text from Head at 12:14 p.m. stating, "Dude how was I to know it would do that? I didn't know it went through until it was to late."

According to the complaint, the ex-boyfriend told police that his cell phone can be used to access the Internet and his password to his Facebook account was saved into the phone so as soon as he goes to Facebook, his home page automatically opens without typing any passwords or access codes.

According to the complaint, Head agreed to come to the Warren City Police Department and acknowledged knowing she was being questioned about "the Facebook thing" and that " she didn't know police acted as parents also."

According to the complaint, Head asked for an attorney and refused to answer any more questions.

The charge is a first-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to five years in prison.

 
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primrose
11-23-09 6:25 PM
**** so can we take from these postings that Deslock and Totheright are one and the same? or is it a case of multiple personality disorder?

yssim66
11-22-09 4:53 PM
don't put anything in a electronic format you are not willing to share. she was a moron. he was a moron. the women who posted it was a moron. then she talked to much, moron 2.0 . wasn't she the poor women who ****** in the parking lot behind cornerstone and got arrested? and the poor women who was D.U.I. and drove her car into the river near eagles club. sounds like this poor women should get slammed.

Deslock
11-22-09 2:56 PM
Noelle, because he's a pathetic little troll that has no life wherever he/she/it "escaped" to.

As for me being a "fine hillbilly man..." I was born and raised in Seattle. So try again, cave troll.

noelle
11-22-09 12:39 PM
Deslock: Gossip is personal information that is spread around to others that just doesn't need to be spread around. "Gossip" is not always untrue - just unnecessary - LIKE THIS ARTICLE. This article is NOT "news". HATEMYHOMETOWN: Out of curiosity - if you do indeed "hate your hometown" and have managed to "escape" then why do you feel the need to regularly stay connected by reading the Times Observer and commenting on it? (and as for Mr. Erickson - being a "vet with issues" does not exonerate a person from treating others badly. I tried for years to be friendly toward him and baked him casseroles and cookies - still to be put on the receiving end of his nastiness.)

Deslock
11-22-09 8:29 AM
Hatemyhometown is obviously nuts. And I don't mean in a cute, crazy way. He's mentally ill, judging by his hate-spewing posts. He's a future John Erickson.

As for a frame-job--the girl admitted she posted the photos. The other girl pressed the charges. The cops aren't "picking" on anyone; they are doing their job.

anderson
11-21-09 10:17 PM
well i seem to remember a star ahving this same problem and no charges were filed against the man who posted he pictures on the web.The way I see it if you don't want them out there then don't pose for them.As far as sympathy for the victim she sent them she should face the consciences for who saw them.

TaxpayerNumber9
11-21-09 5:20 PM
Oh the adventures of a small-town police department! I guess there aren't many better things to do around here than pick on some local idiots. Maybe go chase the Duke boys down some back roads. Why not just go fishing? The combination of too many cops and too few criminals always leads to bored cops that become parasitic cops who pick on everyone they can for anything they can.

danyay
11-21-09 4:23 PM
Yes, holier-than-thou, who apparently lacks the judgment to criticize a circumstance like this when it happens and its alleged perpetrator. Instead, you sympathize with the accused and rail on a state that actually takes crime seriously. You must have been a real winner back in the day. Glad you're gone.

Deslock
11-21-09 2:33 PM
And since when is a police report "gossip"?

Deslock
11-21-09 2:32 PM
Uh...it's in newspapers and on TV stations across America, not just the Times Observer. The poor judgement and poor taste came from the village idiot who emailed nude photos of herself and the chick with the temper who posted them online.

mindy27
11-21-09 1:13 PM
Yeah I have no sympathy for the "victim" either. If your dumb enough to send a photo like that, then the consequences are just.

noelle
11-21-09 12:23 PM
This is typical young adult drama with regrets and consequences for all involved. THIS DID NOT NEED TO BE PUT IN PRINT IN THE NEWSPAPER FOR ALL TO READ. WHAT POOR JUDGEMENT AND POOR TASTE ON THE PART OF TIMES OBSERVER. I AM STUNNED AT THE IMPORTANCE THIS PIECE OF GOSSIP HAS BEEN GIVEN. SHAME ON TIMES OBSERVER!!!!!!

Deslock
11-21-09 10:59 AM
Yes, the girl was wrong to post the photo...but let's move on to the other question that needs answering. Who is stupid enough to send nude photos of themselves to someone else's cell phone? I'm not feeling too bad for that girl, either.

hooktownmark
11-21-09 9:40 AM
Typical Drama he said she said let the show begin ! think before you Act!

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