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3D-Printed Gun Activist Cody Wilson Charged With Sexual Assault, Misses Flight Back From Taiwan
3-D Printed Gun Promoter, Cody Wilson, Is Charged With Sexual Assault of Child (archive)
Cody Wilson, whose push to post blueprints for 3-D printed guns online has made him a key figure in the national gun control debate, was charged on Wednesday with sexually assaulting a child in Texas.
But law enforcement officers said they were having trouble finding Mr. Wilson, who missed a flight back to the United States from Taipei, Taiwan, his last known location. During a news conference on Wednesday, Cmdr. Troy Officer of the Austin Police Department said that a warrant had been filed for Mr. Wilson's arrest and that local detectives were working with national and international partners to find him.
Mr. Wilson, 30, is accused of having sex with a 16-year-old girl at a hotel in Austin on Aug. 15 and paying her $500 in cash, according to an affidavit filed in Travis County. The girl told the police that she had met Mr. Wilson through the website SugarDaddyMeet.com, where he was using the screen name "Sanjuro," the affidavit says.
[...] She and Mr. Wilson, who identified himself to the girl, exchanged phone numbers and then continued messaging each other, sharing at least one explicit photo apiece, according to the affidavit. During one conversation, Mr. Wilson described himself as a "big deal," the affidavit says.
[...] Neither Mr. Wilson nor his lawyer in the sexual assault case responded to a request for comment. The Austin police said a friend of the victim had told Mr. Wilson before he left for Taiwan that he was under investigation.
Taiwan does not have an extradition treaty with the United States.
Looks like someone else will have to take on the job of defending file sharing in court.
Previously: [Updated] Defense Distributed Releasing Gun Plans, President Trump "Looking Into" It
Federal Judge Imposes Preliminary Injunction Against Defense Distributed's DEFCAD
3D Gun File Downloads Blocked; Selling Begins Instead
3-D gun entrepreneur Cody Wilson accused of paying for sex with underage girl, authorities say
From the Washington Post come this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/09/19/d-gun-entrepreneur-cody-wilson-accused-paying-sex-with-underage-girl-authorities-say/?utm_term=.492c764a26d9
Cody Wilson, a 3-D gunmaker who has become embroiled in a national debate about "downloadable" firearms, has been accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl, according to court documents.
Authorities said Wilson, 30, paid the teenager $500 for sex in a hotel last month in Austin after the two met on a dating website, according to an arrest warrant affidavit that was filed Wednesday in district court in Travis County, Tex. Wilson faces a charge of sexual assault, a second-degree felony, according to the court documents.
A spokeswoman with the Austin Police Department said Wilson has not been arrested. It is unclear why authorities are charging him with sexual assault and whether he has an attorney.
I submit this story because it has to do with certain rights. Not who is right.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by physicsmajor on Thursday September 20 2018, @09:56PM (19 children)
I will defer comment on his personal life, but what Defense Distributed has been doing is critically important defense of our rights. Unless you want 3D printers to start having big brother inspect every STL file before it does anything, you should also. It is and has always been entirely legal to manufacture firearms yourself for personal use.
His legal justification has always been rock solid, hilariously far from 'scummy in the extreme'.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday September 20 2018, @10:18PM (1 child)
This is something of a problem. Even "bad people" perform an act of kindness now and then. And, even saints commit sins. I don't know how good or bad a guy Cody Wilson is, I've never met him, and haven't formed any opinions about him. But, he has been doing good, with his technological work. With these charges, millions have already judged him, so guilty or not, he's a scum bag. More millions will withhold judgement, but if he's found guilty, then he's the scummiest of scum bags. And, NO ONE will remember any good deed that may have been performed by a scum bag.
If you have plans to accomplish big things in life, you need to be among the saintliest of the saints, and never commit a sin.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Alfred on Friday September 21 2018, @02:22PM
i would like to present that he either did it or he didn't and this staement should be expanded to either
or
Because the second option actually happens a lot I expect that it is entirely possible here. If you go down that rabbit hole he may have been tricked or coerced into something that looks like this. Of course if there are those who want him destroyed like this then those people are also those that control the media such that he will never win in the court of public opinion.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by aristarchus on Thursday September 20 2018, @10:25PM (11 children)
But it is funny, isn't it, how all these libertarian alt-right "free speech" types end up in trouble over sex. The downfall of the Traditionalist Worker's Party (TWerPs?) in an orgy of hillbilly incest [vice.com] is a case in point. Not to mention Milo on pederasty and Anglin hiding out in Thailand. Coincidence? Not to mention Kavanaugh. Oops! Did I mention Kavanaugh?
(Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 20 2018, @10:43PM (4 children)
Did you forget Anthony Weiner, Al Franken, Keith Ellison and Tony Cardenas?
(Score: 5, Informative) by aristarchus on Thursday September 20 2018, @11:01PM (1 child)
No, but I did mention Kavanaugh. Seems Republicans and other insane right these days equate rape with all other sexual harassment. I have even heard a Faux News operative refer to Kavanaugh's action as "attempted sexual assault". Hmmm, you know, attempted sexual assault is almost always actual sexual assault. Or to put it more bluntly, attempted rape is still sexual assault. Just we the America needs on it's hire court, along with Silent Tom the past sexual harasser. Oh, even consensual sex with a minor is still rape, since children cannot legally consent, even if you pay them $500.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Captival on Thursday September 20 2018, @11:20PM
What a stupid fucking hack. All the same people that are shrieking about this highly suspicious woman and her story which changes multiple times and witnesses who deny her don't seem to care about the Muslim Wife Beater they just re-elected.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 21 2018, @04:56AM (1 child)
I met a reporter who was instrumental to blowing open the Weiner case. He is now jobless, houseless, living on the street.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 21 2018, @06:11AM
MDC??
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 20 2018, @10:48PM
Would you also like to investigate this case?
https://mobile.twitter.com/atensnut?p=s [twitter.com]
I just learned of it, I have no idea why this has been ignored.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 20 2018, @11:21PM
You forgot Julian Assange
(Score: 3, Informative) by unauthorized on Friday September 21 2018, @04:34AM (3 children)
Libertarian.... alt right? Put down the happy drugs aristarchus, the alt right are very much into state authoritarianism, where as libertarians at most begrudgingly accept small governments as a necessity when they aren't going full ancap.
(Score: 4, Touché) by aristarchus on Friday September 21 2018, @05:15AM (2 children)
My apologies! But in my defense, I did not know what else to call right-wing racist pro-gun pedophiles, besides just "Republican".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 21 2018, @08:13PM (1 child)
as opposed to all of the left-wing, pro-gun (as if that's even a partisan thing? Your poor world view might be shattered if you knew how many lefties want guns), pedophiles?
You're attempting to paint an entire side of the country with the brush only a small but high profile minority are fit for. Same with the Democrat side.
It says far more about you than the people you're attempting to characterize.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Friday September 21 2018, @10:30PM
Again, sorry if my crude stereotype struck too close to home!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 20 2018, @10:38PM (2 children)
I wasn't referring to the printed gun aspect, just his decision to use the sugar daddy website, apparently not check the girl's ID or not care, calling himself a "big deal", and having created "hatreon" according to ikanreed.
I agree we shouldn't be making information on gun manufacturing into thought crimes, but I did not mention that in any way. I am not worried that if he goes down then so will the struggle for freedom.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday September 20 2018, @10:55PM
Agreed. He was trying to secure a First Amendment right to share gun plans through court decisions. But at the end of the day, hundreds of thousands of people already have those files and any similar files can be shared just as easily as we can "pirate" TV shows and movies. If need be, such plans can be shared on the dark web. So Cody Wilson can be safely discarded into the dustbin of digital liberty history, although it is a minor setback.
Unless he somehow litigates his current cases from far away using his lawyers. But I kinda doubt it.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 21 2018, @01:04AM
Yeah, he created hatreon. I clicked enough links this evening to have that verified. Wilson claims it was mostly a joke, which went further than he expected, or some such nonsense. I'm still undecided whether hatreon is all bad, or some good and some bad. I haven't clicked that many links yet.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday September 21 2018, @03:35AM (1 child)
You make it sound like it's him and only him that can pull ahead your beloved gun 3D printing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 21 2018, @08:18PM
So because someone does not believe in censorship they must be in love with it? If you say "I don't think they should discriminate against Jews" does that mean you are a Jew or are in love with them? You're attempting to project that someone must be a gun-nut if they support this, when their motivations might be varied and quite broad.