A registered sex offender sent a picture of his penis to a Vice News producer who interviewed him about him about getting out of jail and now facing the struggles as a sex offender.
Vice recently released a story about a man named “Aishef” and other convicted sex offenders who said they have had to serve additional time in prison because of the restrictive housing laws that prohibit them from living in numerous areas of the country.
Vice tried to make a sympathy piece about reintegrating sex offenders into society and it ended with this lol pic.twitter.com/5ZDJSXzbSQ
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After the interviews, Vice correspondent Alice Hines reported in the segment that Aishef sent a nude photo to a Vice producer. “Cyber-flashing is illegal in Chicago by city ordinance,” Hines says in the clip, which was released this month.
“I think it’s up to the viewers to decide whether to believe it or not… We went back and forth a lot about it, because on the one hand, you could argue that it’s not relevant to the story of the injustice that Aishef faced at the hands of the state,” Hines said. “His lawyers would argue that the fact of the dick pic isn’t relevant, but we wanted to give the full story to our viewers.”
According to the NY Post the original message of the story was to focus on how sex offenders are treated unfair after sentencing their time in prison. It delved into some offenders like Aishef who serve what’s known as “dead time,” where because they have no place to live due to rules surrounding where sex offenders can be housed, end up in prison longer than their original sentences.
After receiving the explicit photo Hines explained that she was “shocked” and “angry.”
“He’s a complex person, and this is part of his complexity,” Hines said.
Shoutout to Vice for trying to make a sympathy piece by profiling a guy who denies sexually assaulting his victim and sent the producer a dick pic after filming. just lmao
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Aishef says he didn’t commit the crime – a sexual assault offense involving a sleeping female college student – although he pleaded guilty. At one point, he and Hines had a standoff where she said DNA evidence told a different story than him, but he defiantly said he was innocent. The woman he assaulted told VICE she woke up to him inappropriately touching her, called the police, and later picked him out of a lineup. According to the report, Aishef had earlier run-ins involving trespassing on her campus.
Aishef said the label of sex offender didn’t represent who he was, and he didn’t feel free despite not longer being incarcerated.
“I’d say don’t commit sex offenses if you don’t want to be on that registry,” he said. “I think that’s a serious-enough crime to where it’s not a simple slap on the wrist, and if there’s a stigma, it’s because you did something really bad. I think sex offenses are so personal, they damage people for the rest of their life.”
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