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A&M Student Jailed for Secretly Taping Sex Partner

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  1. Icehouse

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    Student buys ad to apologize to sex partner he secretly videotaped
    Associated Press
    BRYAN -- A former Texas A&M student who videotaped a sexual encounter with his girlfriend without her knowledge and showed the footage to his fraternity brothers must apologize to her in a half-page ad in the campus newspaper.

    Brennan Bice, 21, was sentenced Monday to five years probation and a month in jail. He also was ordered to take out a half-page ad in the Texas A&M student newspaper, apologizing to his former girlfriend.

    Bice was charged under a little-known law that makes it a felony to videotape or photograph someone without consent if the images are intended for arousal or sexual gratification.

    Police said he videotaped consensual sex with his unsuspecting girlfriend, a freshman at Texas A&M, on Oct. 8 and showed the footage to as many as 15 members of his fraternity. When the woman found out, she notified authorities.

    Bice was arrested and pleaded guilty to a fourth-degree felony charge, which is punishable by up to two years in jail and a $10,000 fine.

    The former girlfriend addressed him Monday during an emotional sentencing hearing at the Brazos County Courthouse, the Bryan-College Station Eagle reported in its Tuesday editions.

    "You violated me in ways I don't think you'll ever understand," she said. She was afraid to even be on campus the past five months because she didn't know who had seen the tape, she said.

    "My freshman year of college has been a relentless nightmare," she said.

    Bice, who was suspended from A&M and now attends Blinn College in Brenham, was taken into custody after the hearing on Monday the first day of spring break. He will remain at the Brazos County Jail until Sunday. Then, he will serve the rest of his 30-day jail sentence on weekday nights, said his attorney, Travis Bryan III.

    Under a plea agreement, Bice also must pay a $1,000 fine and perform 250 hours of community service. If he does not violate the terms of the plea agreement during a five-year deferred adjudication period, the court will not convict of him of the felony. He has no prior felony convictions.

    State District Judge Rick Davis, who approved the plea agreement, told Bice he was getting off with a fairly mild punishment.

    "You've taken something that should be precious between a couple and made a cheap thing, and made it an ugly thing," Davis said.

    The judge told Bice to think about the anger he'd feel if someone unknowingly videotaped his future wife, or mother, or sister, having sex.

    In Bice's advertisement, which is set to run in next Monday's edition of the college newspaper, The Battalion, he apologizes to the woman and her family. He also says he did not know about the videotaping law.

    The ad -- which cost Bice $637, Bryan said -- acknowledges wrongdoing and urges other Texas A&M students not to participate in "this type of immoral and illegal conduct."

    Phelps said the unusual advertisement makes Bice's arrest a cautionary tale to other young men while serving the community's interests.

    "This punishment fits the crime," he said.
     
    #1 Icehouse, Mar 11, 2003
  2. Another Brother

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    You know the rules, no pics no credibility!:p
     
    #2 Another Brother, Mar 11, 2003
  3. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"
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    So, how is the big ad in the newspaper supposed to help her exactly?

    "Hear yee! Hear yee! If you have not seen this video, go to your local frat house today! And here we have the name of the video's star sensation!"

    What a horrible idea.
     
    #3 B-Bob, Mar 11, 2003
  4. pgabriel

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    I thought the exact same thing, that is ridiculous, I'm sure all of the 50K students hadn't heard about this yet until this stupid article. Isn't one of the points of diciplining actions like this is to keep the victims identity secret?
     
    #4 pgabriel, Mar 11, 2003
  5. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"
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    Look, I mean no offense to A&M, but punishing the woman in this public way rings of the Scarlet Letter.
     
    #5 B-Bob, Mar 11, 2003
  6. JuanValdez

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    I'm not clear: will his advertisement publish the woman's name? It might not. This article didn't.
     
    #6 JuanValdez, Mar 11, 2003
  7. DaDakota

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    What is the release date of the DVD?

    ;)

    What an idiot to do this kind of thing.

    DD
     
    #7 DaDakota, Mar 11, 2003
  8. DCkid

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    A&M didn't hand down the punishment, right?

    I'm wondering if the girl or her family had any input into the punishment. Maybe she wanted the full-page ad. It definitely lets everybody know what this guy did and who he is.
     
    #8 DCkid, Mar 11, 2003
  9. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"
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    Whoops. There I go confusing the university with the town and the local goverment again! What was I thinking? ;)
     
    #9 B-Bob, Mar 11, 2003
  10. RocketMan Tex

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    Look on the bright side:

    A videotape of a cow and a pig having sex may be of tremendous research value for Texas A&Ms Animal Husbandry Department.
     
    #10 RocketMan Tex, Mar 11, 2003
  11. Baqui99

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    Whoop!

    Gag 'Em Ags!
     
    #11 Baqui99, Mar 11, 2003
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    Dang, there wasn't a trial. That would have been a fun jury on which to be...

    "OK, I'm going to need to take a look at that tape one more time, just to make sure the man in question is really the defendant..."
     
    #12 A-Train, Mar 11, 2003
  13. glynch

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    I once watched part of a trial of a topless dancer whose legal defense was that while she was dancing, she didn't purposely have her butt touch the customer's groin. She couldn't help it that the customer's groin grew to the point that it touched her butt.

    She didn't get off (I'm not sure about whether he did when he was at the club). Later I heard that the jury of young men and middle age women found the whole affair amusing and punished her with a fine of $100.

    Just a fun story. The offense at A&M is a much more serious matter.
     
    #13 glynch, Mar 11, 2003
  14. Smokey

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    Reminds me of the case of Libby Hoeler. According to news reports, her ex got a year in jail. BTW I'm too lazy to check Snopes. Libby, a student at UW, sent her boyfriend at the time erotic clips of herself. He found out she cheated on him so he sent the clips to her family. He says he never leaked it, but somehow the clips ended up on Kazaa.
     
    #14 Smokey, Mar 11, 2003
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    I wonder what the legal reasoning behind that decision would be. Secretly taping your girlfriend is one thing, but sharing tapes that someone knowingly made and sent to you seems to be a completely different animal to me.

    (Plus, I read on a site that proclaimed to have the "whole story" that the jail part was a myth. But who knows how credible that website was).
     
    #15 mrpaige, Mar 11, 2003
  16. LonghornFan

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    Ouch!

    :D
     
    #16 LonghornFan, Mar 11, 2003
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    Note to chicks...unless you want to be on every college and high school guy's hard drive, don't send naked videos of yourself to anybody, not matter who is is.
     
    #17 Supermac34, Mar 11, 2003
  18. AroundTheWorld

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    Is it on Kazaa yet?
     
    #18 AroundTheWorld, Mar 11, 2003
  19. SirCharlesFan

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    There was a rumor that this one chick at my high school had a train ran on her by three guys that secretly video taped the whole thing. After they got done, they supposedly told the chick she should invite some girlfriends over to watch a movie, and when they came over the guys showed the video of them running a train on the girl...
     
    #19 SirCharlesFan, Mar 11, 2003
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    Whoop. I don't know about you but when all I see is a story about an aggy and "Sex Partner" I was thinking :eek: :eek: :eek: "there's an aggy dumb enough to video tape himself having sex with a sheep, cow...???" :D
     
    #20 TheHorns, Mar 11, 2003
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