The plight of Alex Phillips offers a good lesson in how NOT to respond to a break-up. The 17-year-old Wisconsin teen (pictured) faces up to 16
years in prison for publishing naked photos of his ex-girlfriend on his MySpace
page. If this sounds like the doings of a puritanical, punishment-happy society,
wait till you learn a bit more about this lovely Alex character.
After Alex “dated”
(which is probably a very tame way to put it) a 16-year-old girl for a while,
they broke up and she started seeing someone else. Alex decided to teach his ex
a little lesson about who she was dealing with—and about being a bit more cautious
when she emailed photos in the future. He allegedly pasted on his MySpace page
two nude photos that the girl had emailed to him during happier times. Suffice
it to say that, according to the police report, one of the photos was a close-up
that was not of the girl’s face.
Under this photo, Alex eloquently described his broken heart
this way: “Yo tell me this bitch desurves this!!!!!....TF gets my leftovers….” I’ve included the ellipses to indicate
references to the girl’s anatomy (or, more specifically, to what Alex did to
said anatomy) that are best left to the imagination.
Unfortunately for Al, he took a similarly aggressive stance
when police phoned him and asked him to remove the photos. “Fuck that,” he
reportedly said. “I’m keeping them up.”
Once he was brought in to custody and charged with child porn, defamation, and
sexual exploitation of a minor, Alex conceded that he was simply “venting,” but
he “probably should not have done this.” The girl told police she was “very
upset.”
In a best case scenario, boys such as Alex Phillips would have
some really good therapy for years before they were allowed any more contact
with women. And 16-year-old girls would not email photos of their anatomy to
boys like Alex. And teenage boys would not call girls bitches, and would know
how to spell the word “deserve.” Considering that this is clearly not a
“best-case scenario” world, what do you think of Alex Phillips: vicious pervert
deserving of criminal prosecution or confused teenager who simply took these
things a bit too far?
Photo: The Smoking Gun
