Judge dishes out fines, advice
“Listen to your mother.”
That was the advice District Judge Lewis Stoughton imparted Tuesday on the teenager standing before him.
Next to 18-year-old Austin D. McAnallen of Washington Township, on one side, his attorney. On the other side, his mother.
Moments earlier, McAnallen pleaded guilty to three counts of sexting. The formal charge is transmission of sexually explicit images by a minor.
State police in February accused the teen of sending naked images of his ex-girlfriend to at least two boys as part of his plan earlier this year to get back at her for allegedly cheating on him.
The case came to light, police said, after one of the boys who received the naked photos forwarded them to the victim and advised her that the defendant was “sending them around.”
The victim informed administrators at Moniteau High School, who contacted police.
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