{"id":2523,"date":"2018-09-24T21:27:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T21:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/3d-printed-gun-pioneer-bailed-after-sex-assault-charge\/"},"modified":"2018-09-24T21:27:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T21:27:07","slug":"3d-printed-gun-pioneer-bailed-after-sex-assault-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/3d-printed-gun-pioneer-bailed-after-sex-assault-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"3D-printed gun pioneer bailed after sex assault charge"},"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\">Cody Wilson has been released on bail in Houston, Texas, after being charged with the sexual assault of an under-age girl.<\/p>\n<p>His bail was posted at $150,000 (\u00a3114,000).<\/p>\n<p>Mr Wilson runs Defense Distributed, a campaign group that offers blueprints for creating 3D printed guns.<\/p>\n<p>He was deported back to the US from Taiwan on 22 September, having travelled there before police could speak to him.<\/p>\n<p>In August, a 16-year-old said she had been paid $500 (\u00a3380) to have sex with him at a hotel in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The legal age of consent in the state is 17.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Wilson&#8217;s lawyer Samy Khalil said: &#8220;We are glad that Cody is back in Texas again where we can work with him on his case. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s our focus right now, representing our client and preparing his defence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Local TV news station Khou 11 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NTC4PR-zaEk\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">broadcast footage of Mr Wilson leaving Harris County Jail<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>If found guilty, Mr Wilson faces up to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-45625275\">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 Cody Wilson has been released on bail in Houston, Texas, after being charged with the sexual assault of an under-age girl. His bail was posted at $150,000 (\u00a3114,000). Mr Wilson runs Defense Distributed, a campaign group that offers blueprints &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}