Statement from Gennette Cordova, student who was sent lewd Twitter photo from Rep. Weiner's account

[rucky]

Friday evening I logged onto Twitter to find that I had about a dozen new mentions in less than an hour, which is a rare occurrence. When I checked one of the posts that I had been tagged in I saw that it was a picture that had supposedly been tweeted to me by Congressman Anthony Weiner.

The account that these tweets were sent from was familiar to me; this person had harassed me many times after the Congressman followed me on Twitter a month or so ago. Since I had dealt with this person and his cohorts before I assumed that the tweet and the picture were their latest attempts at defaming the Congressman and harassing his supporters.

Annoyed, I responded with something along the lines of "are you f***ing kidding me?" and "I've never seen this. You people are sick." I blocked their accounts, made my page private, and let the matter drop, expecting them to eventually do the same.

Within about an hour, however, I realized that I had grossly underestimated the severity of the situation that I had somehow become a part of...

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/05/29/2011-05-29_statement_from_gennette_cordova_student_who_was_sent_lewd_twitter_photo_from_rep.html#ixzz1Nr4xm9ZP

[Frances]

1. I remember that the kid who hacked into Sara Palin's

email got a stiff sentence.

I think that whoever did this should get a worse sentence because not only did this person hack, he also essentially libled the receiver and Weiner.

[JDPriestly]

2. Has Weiner responded?

[Beaverhausen]

3. I'm glad she's speaking up

It kills me that her little joke tweets about "my boyfriend Rep Weiner" are being used by the rightwing nuts that they are in a relationship. Myself and many of my friends use that same terminology to talk about someone we like- for me it used to be "my future husband, Sting"

[Doctor_J]

4. this was posted yesterday

at least a couple times.

[lumpy]

5. So ? Some of us are not on the internet every day of the week.

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