Brickbat: For Your Eyes Only

In England, former West Mercia Police Constable Mark Cranfield has been sentenced to eight months in jail after being convicted on two counts of misconduct in public office and one count of accessing computer records without authorization. Cranfield reportedly saved intimate videos and nude photos that had been submitted as evidence in a revenge porn case, kept them on his phone, and forwarded the images to at least one person. Prosecutors also said he repeatedly contacted the victim in the case, discussing his sex life.
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I'm pretty sure also this is nearly the sole reason law enforcement pursue teen sexting cases.
In all fairness, we're talking England, no one appears to have been gang raped, the actual revenge pornographer was jailed, and the officer who unethically chatted up the victim is also going to jail whether he's sorry or not.
"Well she's clearly a whore. I need to talk to her."
Why isn't he being charged with revenge porn?
Once again, all he had to do was say he's Muslim. Would have all gone away instantly.