27 Jun: Columbia (Uni) Spectator: GS student arrested for child pornography, enticing a minor to have sex
By Khadija Hussain
General Studies student Joel Davis was arrested Tuesday in Manhattan on charges of child pornography and attempting to sexually exploit children as young as two years old.
Davis spent years as a sexual assault prevention activist both on and off Columbia’s campus. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015 for helping to found Youth to End Sexual Violence and serving as the chairman of the International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence.
After being arrested, Davis allegedly confessed to officers that he had sexually abused a thirteen-year-old boy in the past, and that he kept child pornography on his phone.
Davis was a columnist for Spectator in 2017, writing on topics including being a survivor of sexual assault (like most Spectator columnists, Davis was an outside contributor who was not a member of Spectator’s staff). In a 2014 op-ed in the Huffington Post, Davis condemned the sexual exploitation of children...
He could face up to 70 years in prison.
https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2018/06/27/gs-student-arrested-for-child-pornography-enticing-a-minor-to-have-sex/
No doubt the Huffington Post will start a Go Fund Me page for his legal defense fund.
Unreal...