AUSTIN, Texas — A man has been charged with invasive visual recording after he allegedly filmed himself having sex with a woman and posted the video to the internet without her consent.
According to an affidavit, Jawuan Delvon Cooper, 31, invited the victim – whom he knew for about two years through the military – to his apartment on the weekend of Feb. 16, 2019.
The two had consensual sex on the morning of Feb. 17, 2019, the victim told police.
Cooper allegedly recorded the two having sex without the woman’s knowledge or consent. He then uploaded the video to a pornography website, also without her knowledge or consent, the document states.
A friend of the woman reportedly notified her of the video on April 24, 2019, and sent her a link to the website.
The victim flagged the video with the website and reported the incident to police. She told police Cooper had uploaded the video on April 3, 2019.
The woman later positively identified Cooper in a police photo line-up and identified a screenshot of the video in question.
Cooper has been charged with unlawful disclosure or promotion of intimate visual material, a state jail felony.
In the following statement, the pornography website said the video has since been removed:
"Anyone uploading content to Pornhub must abide by the Terms of Service of the site which requires users to assert that they have rights to distribute the video. Content that is uploaded to Pornhub that directly violates our TOS is removed as soon as we are made aware of it; this includes non-consensual content. To further ensure the safety of all our fans, we officially took a hard stance against revenge porn in 2015, which we believe is a form of sexual assault, and introduced a submission form for the easy removal of non-consensual content. Those who are on Pornhub and identify any material that is distributed without the consent of the individuals involved can visit http://www.pornhub.com/content-removal and fill out the form found there to request the removal of nonconsensual material. Requests made through the form are expedited. The specific video in question, which was received via our request form, has been promptly removed."
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