From Slashdot:

"Evan Emory, a 21-year-old aspiring musician, edited together video of him singing a G-rated song to a bunch of giggling school kids with video of him singing a song with sexually explicit lyrics, and posted it on YouTube. For this stupid joke, done many times by professional comedians (all NSFW, obviously), and admittedly done without getting permission from the children shown 'hearing' him sing naughty words, he was arrested and could face 20 years in prison as a sex offender. On the pretext of looking for 'souvenirs' of child sexual abuse, his house has been searched by police, and the Muskegon County (Michigan) Prosecutor has insinuated (with no further evidence) that Emory actually wants to have sex with children and claims he 'victimized every single child in that classroom.' Emory insists he had no such intention."

yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/19/2134202/...-Prank-YouTube-Video

Things are not good in the Land of the Freak and Home of the Slave.

However, this case is having a tiny bit of a "positive" effect. Most people see the absurdity in it since it is obvious Evan is not a pedophile, so it could bring a greater challenge to the ridiculous child pornography laws that criminalize thought.

Although maybe I'm being a bit too optimistic. I know that if this had been some poor lonely guy masturbating to a naked Bart Simpson cartoon no one would care. The only voices would be the ones screaming fanatically for his castration.

There is something I don't understand. There is some unexplained witchlike power in a pedophile's thoughts that make them very dangerous and indefensible, they are unlike any other thoughts.

Strange.