PSU student convicted of threat
Student convicted for MySpace post:
24-year-old Steven Voneida of Harrisburg, PA was convicted of posting threats against Penn State-Harrisburg on his MySpace.
Voneida made posts on his MySpace praising the Virginia Tech gunman and threatening the campus…
A poem entitled “the Ballad of Cho Seung-hui” about Seung-Hui Cho — the shooter who killed 32 people and then himself during a rampage on the Virginia Tech campus — was just one of the pieces on Voneida’s MySpace profile focusing on the incident, according to the press release. The poem itself appeared under a headline, “Virginia Tech Massacre: They got what they deserved.”
In addition, Voneida’s profile also threatened, “Someday I will make the Virginia Tech incident look like a trip to an amusement park,” according to the press release.
Voneida was convicted of transmitting communications containing a threat to injure and faces a max of 5 years behind bars.
As is usual in these cases Voneida’s father is in denial and doesn’t get it.
While he found his son’s statements “disgusting,” Ken Voneida also said it did not constitute a real threat and should be protected through freedom of speech.
Apparently Mr. Voneida doesn’t understand the old ’shouting fire in a theater’ axiom.
Tags: harrisburg, penn-state, Steven Voneida, threat, viriginia tech
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Social Media Crime Blotter: Law and Order Edition
Feb 16, 2008 at 4:34 am
[…] the sympathy for the VATech shooter doesn’t end there, however. This Wednesday, MyCrimeSpace dug up a story of a fellow, Steven Voneida, from PSU who published on his MySpace profile a poem entitled […]
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