Kid fined for putting teacher on youtube
I’ve tried to search for the video but the kid pulled it off line.
See The kid didn’t have to defamed the teacher by calling her names.
Apparently the Teacher suffered from Insonmia. hmmm , this happened in Finland?
HELSINKI, Finland - A court on Friday fined a 15-year-old schoolboy for
posting a video on YouTube of his teacher singing karaoke without her permission
and claiming she was a lunatic.
In the first case of its kind in Finland,
Nurmes District Court found Toni Vesikko guilty of intentional defamation and
fined him $120. He also was ordered to pay $1,000 in damages for “causing harm
and suffering,” and $3,000 in court costs.
Vesikko, who took the video of
his teacher singing karaoke at a school party on April 30, admitted posting the
video on YouTube a day later. He said he did it as a prank and had not intended
to insult the teacher.
But the court said Vesikko’s actions “falsified
facts” - about the institution and the teacher’s mental state - and caused her
to suffer anxiety, depression and insomnia. The video was watched more than 600
times before Vesikko took it off YouTube on May 7 on the orders of the principal
of the school, near Lieksa, 330 miles northeast of the capital, Helsinki.
