Anoka man going to jail in revenge porn case

Published 8:04 am Thursday, October 5, 2017

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An eastern Minnesota man has been sentenced under a new state law that seeks to hold people accountable for revenge porn.

Anoka resident Michael Weigel was sentenced to four months in jail and three years of probation, the Pioneer Press reported . The 39-year-old was convicted on one count of felony nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images.

Weigel was accused of creating a fake Facebook account under the name of his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend, friending people they knew and posting naked pictures of the woman last December. He pleaded guilty to the charge in August.

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“I will worry about these images for the rest of my life and live with the shame and embarrassment the rest of my life,” the woman told the court.