Judge Orders Parents to Pay Nearly $45k for Tossing Son’s Post-Divorce Stash of ‘Sex Toys’ and ‘Smutty Magazines’ – By Aaron Keller (Law and Crime) / Aug 28 2021
A federal judge in Michigan has ordered a mother and father to pay damages after disposing of their adult son’s vast pornography collection following the son’s divorce.
The judge, Paul L. Maloney, told defendants Beth Werking and Paul Werking to pay $30,441.54 in “principal” (the value of the collection) and an additional $14,519.82 in attorneys’ fees to their son David Werking. According to a court document dated Aug. 25, the sum total is $44,961.36.
According to court records, the son lived “rent free” at his parents’ home after living “on the street for a while.” But he swiftly moved out of his parents’ house “at the request of local law enforcement” after what court records suggest was a violent spree involving “throwing furniture.” He left his assortment of sexually explicit subject matter behind — and his parents disposed of it. The cache, according to a court valuation, “consisted of 2,289 adult films” dating from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s.
