Emma Gannon reports:
An NBC station in Colorado sexually exploited a 14-year-old boy by broadcasting a picture of his penis and identifying him in a news story, the teenager claims in court.
Levi Holden, now 16, sued KOAA TV Channel 5 & 30, NBC Universal, Comcast, and six KOAA employees on Jan. 29 in Federal Court.
Read more on Courthouse News.
The parties dispute whether KOAA was supposed to keep Levi’s name confidential. But if KOAA really aired a thumbnail of a picture of his erect penis, I have to wonder what the hell KOAA’s editors were thinking – even without attribution or display of any Facebook page, that just seems so… inappropriate.