Exactly. Because - here’s the thing - two lines in a news article don’t tell the full story. We have bugger all information about what has actually happened, what was filmed, and who it was sent/shown to.
Some of the knee jerk reactions would be appropriate if he’d been caught, say, stashing hidden cameras in someone’s bedroom, then putting the footage on Pornhub.
At the other end of the scale - and we don’t know that this isn’t what happened - two things explicitly stated in the article are that the young lady and Fainu are known to each other, and that whatever was filmed was transmitted via Snapchat. I don’t use Snapchat myself, and I know it can be used to send group messages, but most people I know use it for direct, person-to-person video/picture messaging. Consider the possibility that the victim in this case is/was his girlfriend (or a regular friend with benefits, whatever, entirely their business) he’s thought it would be amusing/arousing to film their consensual encounter (another point explicitly stated in the news report), and has sent the footage to the young lady in question at some later point, which she has then been duly disgusted and horrified by, and reported to police. There’s every chance the footage in question was not seen by any third party (yes, there’s also every chance it was the 21st century version of bragging to your mates at the pub about the hot chick you shagged, and it’s been sent to said mates).
My gut feeling, based on the few details known, is this looks to be much closer to the ‘stupid teenager doing something regrettable on the spur of the moment’ end of the spectrum, rather than the ‘reprehensible sexual deviant/predator’ end. I guess we’ll see.
