ALMOST DENMARK
So now a parent does not have the right to know what their own child is doing in their own house. Who gains from this? How is society better served?
In the fall of 2000, two young men knocked an elderly woman to the ground and stole her purse. That happened in the small town of Friday Harbor, Washington. Seventeen-year-old Oliver Christiansen was convicted of the crime because he called his 14-year-old girlfriend and bragged about it.
The girl's mother was listening in on the conversation and testified against Christensen. But the Washington State Supreme Court has now overturned that conviction, ruling that the two teenagers had a right to privacy when talking on the phone.
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