Woman charged under new Virginia revenge porn law
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Rachel Lynn Craig, 28, was busted Saturday after the victim told cops Craig stole a nude photo of her and posted it online without consent.
WAYNESBORO, Va. (AP) -- An Augusta County woman faces a misdemeanor charge under Virginia's new revenge pornography law.
Waynesboro police tell media outlets that 28-year-old Rachel Lynn Craig is accused of posting a nude photograph of another woman on Facebook.
The law went into effect July 1. It makes it illegal to distribute a sexually explicit image of others without their permission. The phenomenon is called "revenge porn."
Police Sgt. Brian Edwards says the 22-year-old victim told police that Craig took the photograph from a cell phone belonging to the woman's boyfriend and posted the image on Facebook. The woman said she had taken the photograph of herself and sent it to her boyfriend's cell phone.
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The revenge porn law went into effect July 1, and Craig, of Waynesboro, is the first in the state to be charged with the misdemeanor offense.
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Virginia woman first to be charged under new ‘revenge porn’ law
Rachel Lynn Craig, 28, stole a nude picture of her
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/virginia-woman-charged-state-new-revenge-porn-law-article-1.1980467
A spurned Virginia woman is the first in the state to be charged under a new “revenge porn” law after she stole a nude photo of her former boyfriend’s new girlfriend and posted it online, police said.
Waynesboro woman Rachel Lynn Craig, 28, is charged with the “unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another” — distributing private pics owned by someone else — after the law went into effect July 1, WVIR-TV reported.
Cops say Craig, in a fit of rage, went on her ex’s cellphone, got the compromising image that the 22-year-old victim had sent him, then posted it online for all to see. She was arrested and released Saturday after the victim complained.
“That was one thing we really had to establish. What was the intent of Ms. Craig for posting this?” Waynesboro police Sgt. Brian Edwards told the news station. “She considered the victim a romantic rival for this one individual's affections and she said that she did it out of anger."
The misdemeanor charges carries up to one year in jail or a $2,500 fine, or both. Virginia is one of 13 states to implement revenge porn laws since 2013, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Craig frequently posts on Facebook, though any incriminating pictures have since been removed from the social media site.
“I wish u could fall outta love with someone as fast as u fell in love with them …” she wrote in September.
“Y is it the people u love the most make you feel like s--t,” she wrote in another.
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Craig frequently posts selfies and messages to Facebook, often about love and the quest for happiness.