February 23, 2011 05:06 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/GI_kf5p7OCE/youtube-prankster-is.html
Youtube prankster is facing serious jailtime
Via Blame it on the Voices: "21-year-old Michigan resident Evan Emory faces 20 years in jail for 'manufacturing child sexual abusive material.' What he did: he tricked representatives of an elementary school to let him film himself performing a song on his guitar in front of their 1st-graders and then he re-edited the video as if he was singing sexually explicit lyrics and posted it to YouTube." According to this news report: "The video was edited to make it appear the students were in the classroom, though they weren't."...Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/GI_kf5p7OCE/youtube-prankster-is.html
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