A 40-year-old Indiana man is suing his parents in federal court for
destroying his gargantuan collection of pornography, the value of which he
placed at $30,000.
In the interest of privacy, The Daily Caller News Foundation has chosen not
to publish the lawsuit itself, or identify those involved.
rape, torture and urination. An itemized list of titles, sex toys and other
possessions appended to the lawsuit runs 17 pages.
The dispute began in August 2017, when the plaintiff was expelled from the
family home for unspecified reasons. Documents appended to the lawsuit
indicate the plaintiff was removed from the premises by local authorities.
The plaintiff lived with his parents for a 10-month period following his
divorce. He was intermittently homeless before moving in with the defendants.
Email traffic exchanged between the parties shows that the defendants
discovered and destroyed the pornography collection shortly after the
plaintiff was barred from the house. Sporadic communication continued through
2018.
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For his part, the plaintiff claimed his parents were distorting the sequence
of events. By his telling, the plaintiff shared his intentions to bring
pornography into the family home over dinner in 2015. Whatever moral outrage
his parents felt at the material, the plaintiff continued, destruction of
property was not the proper course.
civilized society. If you had a problem with my belongings, you should have
stated that at the time and I would have gone elsewhere. Instead you chose to
The plaintiff says the value of several titles is difficult to calculate,
since they were produced on VHS or other outmoded forms of media by studios
which no longer exist.
Elsewhere in their communications, the defendants revealed that the plaintiff
was reprimanded in high school for distributing pornography. Minors were
allegedly among his clientele. Those activities continued in college,
culminating with his dismissal from a religiously-affiliated college.
Though an investigation followed, a supplemental police report indicates
local prosecutors decided not to pursue a criminal case due to lack of
evidence.
The plaintiff retained private counsel on or about January 2016. He is
seeking nearly $90,000 in compensation under a state treble damages
provision, which allows plaintiffs to recoup thrice the value of actual
damages.
The lawsuit was docketed on April 10, after the plaintiff sought a private
settlement. The case has been assigned to a federal magistrate in Michigan.
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