Dan Monnat Comments for KSN on Teen Sexting
GARDEN CITY, Kansas – At least six Garden City teens could face charges for allegedly texting nude photos of a Garden City High School student when she was 13 years old. KSN Legal Analyst Dan Monnat says the case hinges on who possesses the photos with the criminal intent to transmit them and, most important, whether the photos were obtained by a warrant, per the recent Supreme Court ruling. “We have to ask a question this week that we wouldn’t have had to ask last week: ‘Did the law enforcement officers here acquire the images from the sexting telephones with a valid search warrant?’ If they didn’t, then the photos cannot be admitted into evidence, and probably, these individuals need to go free of being accused of any crime.”