Comparetto on Tampa incident
Lawyer Anthony Comparetto recounts an incident last weekend demonstrating the dangers of trying to make your own Girls Gone Wild-style amateur porn videos.
This past Saturday night in Ybor City, a known Tampa party spot, a 33-year-old photographer approached a girl and offered to pay her $50 to pose nude. This young woman not only agreed to the photos, but also allowed the man to videotape her and another woman having sex.
The problem was that a day later the girl's parents found out about the video and immediately called the police. The photographer arrested works for Dream Girls, an adult film production company in Tampa. The photographer then made things worse by speaking with the girl's mother and stating that he didn't know the girl was underage. The company then tried to get the parents to sign a release and then give the video of the girl to the parents.
A lawyer representing Dream Girls then called the parents and arranged a meeting with the girl's parents. The attorney offered to destroy the tape if the mother signed a release. The problem was that this woman was not the girl’s mother, but an undercover policewoman. The attorney was arrested on charges of possession of child pornography and sexual performance by a child. The police stated that the tape was felony contraband and the attorney should have turned it over to police.
Comparetto runs a site called Adult Site Law. . . . UPDATE: The St. Petersburg Times has a story about this incident with slightly more detail.
