{"id":2468,"date":"2018-09-23T08:05:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T08:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/3d-printed-gun-pioneer-cody-wilson-charged-with-sexual-assault\/"},"modified":"2018-09-23T08:05:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T08:05:10","slug":"3d-printed-gun-pioneer-cody-wilson-charged-with-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/3d-printed-gun-pioneer-cody-wilson-charged-with-sexual-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"3D-printed gun pioneer Cody Wilson charged with sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-with-caption\">\n<div class=\"player-with-placeholder\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-placeholder player-with-placeholder__image lead-video-placeholder\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06g977q.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Media playback is unsupported on your device<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"media-with-caption__caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Media caption<\/span>Cody Wilson: The man behind America&#8217;s 3D-printed guns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A Texas man who has played a central role in making 3D-printed weapons available has been charged with sexually assaulting an underage girl.<\/p>\n<p>A warrant was issued for Cody Wilson but he flew to Taiwan before he could be detained, police in Austin said.<\/p>\n<p>A 16-year-old girl alleged she was paid $500 (\u00a3380) to have sex with Mr Wilson at an Austin hotel, they said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Wilson has been at the centre of a legal battle over publishing blueprints that instruct people on making a gun.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-45011351\" class=\"story-body__link\">Are &#8216;ghost guns&#8217; a step too far?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/guides\/zp7x7hv\" class=\"story-body__link\">Will 3D printing change my world?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mr Wilson has not yet commented on the case and no lawyer has yet issued a statement.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">What are the allegations against Mr Wilson?<\/h2>\n<p>Austin Police Commander Troy Officer told a press briefing that a counsellor who had spoken to the girl informed police on 22 August that &#8220;that a juvenile female under the age of 17 had reported having sexual contact with a 30-year-old male&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The legal age of consent in Texas is 17.<\/p>\n<p>Commander Officer said the girl met Mr Wilson through the sugardaddymeet.com website and had sex with him in a hotel on 15 August.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed the girl&#8217;s story through &#8220;videotape and interviews&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged crime is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">What is the Taiwan connection?<\/h2>\n<p>Commander Officer said Mr Wilson had &#8220;left the country before we could seek an interview&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    Cody Wilson has fought a legal battle on distributing blueprints for the gun<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He said: &#8220;We know Mr Wilson frequently travels for business. We don&#8217;t know why he went to Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we do know before he left he was informed by a friend of the victim that she had spoken to police and the police were investigating him for having sex with a minor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said that Mr Wilson was not in custody and that he had &#8220;missed a scheduled flight back to the United States&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan&#8217;s National Immigration Agency said Mr Wilson had arrived on 6 September, Agence France-Presse reported, but that there had been no US request for judicial assistance as yet.<\/p>\n<p>There is no extradition treaty between the United States and Taiwan.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">What is Mr Wilson&#8217;s role in the 3D saga?<\/h2>\n<p>Cody Wilson, a self-styled crypto-anarchist, founded the gun access advocacy group Defense Distributed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">AFP\/Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    One version of a 3D printed gun<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He showed off the world&#8217;s first 3D-printed gun in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The US government then banned the online posting of blueprints that gave instructions on making the guns.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Wilson launched a legal battle, claiming the ruling infringed his rights to free speech and to bear arms.<\/p>\n<p>The US government this year reached a settlement lifting the ban, but this was then challenged by a number of states.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a US federal judge in Seattle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-45027237\" class=\"story-body__link\">blocked the release of software that allows consumers to 3D-print firearms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Wilson said this ruling applied only to free online distribution and began selling blueprints instead, leading to thousands of downloads.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-45584598\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionCody Wilson: The man behind America&#8217;s 3D-printed guns A Texas man who has played a central role in making 3D-printed weapons available has been charged with sexually assaulting an underage girl. 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