California judge: trolling with someone else's Facebook is identity theft

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Rolando was a juvenile who received an unsolicited text message with the victim's e-mail password. According to the court, he used the password to gain access to the victim's Facebook account and posted several sexually inappropriate messages from the victim's account. The Facebook posts included posts on the walls of the victim's friends and the following change to the victim's profile:

Hey, Face Bookers, I'm , a junior in high school . . . I want to be a pediatrician but I'm not sure where I want to go to college. I have high standards for myself and plan to meet them all. I love to suck dick.

The victim testified that she suffered stigma as a result of these and other posts. "I used to love going to school," she said. "Now, I dread dealing with this every day."

The juvenile was prosecuted under a California statute (section 530.55) which applies to anyone who:

wilfully obtains personal identifying information uses that information for any unlawful purpose, including to obtain, or attempt to obtain, credit, goods, services, real property, or medication information.

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