Unencrypted chat history is a prime target for police

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605

A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.

  • magnetosphere @beehaw.orgEnglish
    93·
    1 year ago

    Meta complied with the request, with the Messenger chat history appearing to show Celeste and Jessica discussing Celeste’s use of home abortion medication. At the time, Celeste was 28 weeks pregnant — at the start of her third trimester.

    Police used the chat history as evidence to seize the pair’s computers and phones. They have since charged the two women with a number of crimes, including charging Jessica with allegedly performing an abortion 20 weeks after fertilization and performing an abortion without a licensed doctor (both felonies), and charging Celeste (who is being tried as an adult) with the felony of removing, concealing, or abandoning a dead human body.

    So… was there ever a doctor involved at all? I’m a big proponent of the right to choose, but this is pretty messed up.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      55·
      1 year ago

      Nope. Also this was done 2 months after the cutoff for legal abortion where they’re at, and 1 month after viability of the fetus outside the womb. Personally think that’s important to bear in mind here.