Judge sends Youngs to jail for contempt

[zazen]

Source: Raleigh News & Observer

A judge has sent Andrew and Cheri Young to jail for up to 75 days for contempt of court.

Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones said the couple had failed to be truthful about the number of copies made of a sex tape of former Sen. John Edwards and his mistress and how many people have seen it, Michael Biesecker reports.

. . . Andrew Young previously said that he showed the sex tape to a producer for ABC and two book agents. After that, attorneys for Rielle Hunter, Edwards' mistress who Young says also appeared in the video, produced an affadavit from a ghost writer who previously worked for Edwards, Robert Draper of New York.

Draper swore in the document that on March 31, 2009 he and Young met at the Youngs' house. After Cheri Young had gone to bed, Andrew Young offered to show Draper the sex tape and played it on a big screen television in his office from his laptop, which suggested there was a digital copy stored on the laptop.

Read more: http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/young_lied_about_tape_judge_considering_contempt

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I've avoided the whole Edwards thing, but frankly am happy to see this Chatham County judge hold Young accountable for such a gross invasion of privacy.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Slight variation of headline: The judge is ready to send them to jail.

Giving them their due process at the moment.

[DURHAM D]

2. At best Rielle was careless with the tape.

Personally I think she didn't care who saw it as she worked to break up the marriage and lay claim to John. Until John and Elizabeth split I don't think she cared at all who saw the thing and probably left it behind on purpose. Rielle is void of any redeeming qualities. Same goes for John. Andrew - scorned and too ambitious. His poor judgment is now biting his ass. What a cesspool of trash.

[Bette Noir]

3. With friends like these...