People in San Francisco, California and Houston, Texas may not agree on lots of things but they do agree on this: Guys who post revenge porn are dirtbags. Take for example this case in Houston:

According to court documents, the woman and her former boyfriend began dating in 2016.

The woman had shared intimate photos of herself with the defendant during the relationship. After a break-up in 2021, he is accused of having posted the photos on social media platforms and adult websites without her consent.

He allegedly sent links of the photos to her friends and family through a publicly accessible Dropbox folder.

He was also accused of having access to her phone, social media accounts and email, as well as to the camera system at her mother’s home, which he used to spy on her.

At one point, the defendant allegedly sent the woman a message: “You will spend the rest of your life trying and failing to wipe yourself off the internet. Everyone you ever meet will hear the story and go looking. Happy Hunting.”

The court documents also allege he stole money from her bank account to pay his own rent using passwords he had collected while they were dating. Yesterday a jury awarded the anonymous victim a $1.2 billion dollar judgment (that’s billion with a b).

The jury ordered [Marques Jamal] Jackson to pay Doe $200 million for past and future damages, and $1 billion in exemplary damages — an amount Doe’s attorney said in a statement is unlikely to be recovered and is more than they asked for, but serves to raise awareness of what he called a “tech-fueled national epidemic.”

“As for (Doe), she is grateful for the verdict. It validates the courage and sacrifice she made in bringing the lawsuit. It also gives voice to other victims and gives (Doe) back her good name,” Bradford Gilde of Gilde Law Firm wrote in a statement to the Chronicle. “This trial was not about the money or the number, it was about the message.”

She’ll never get even a fraction of the money, which is a shame. This case is enough to make me wish for the return of debtor’s prisons. But as far as feel creeps go, that case may not be quite as creepy as this one in San Francisco.

Police arrested Maria in October 2021, after she was accused of stabbing the man she had briefly dated three years earlier. The man threatened Maria to get her to accompany him to his apartment, where, according to public defenders, he hit and grabbed her from behind.

Believing the man was going to rape her, Maria grabbed a kitchen knife and sliced his arm, the public defender’s office said.

The incident followed years of alleged harassment in which the man recorded a sexual encounter without Maria’s consent, created a fake Facebook account to send a video of the encounter to her teenage children and showed up at her workplace “on a daily basis,” Valerie Ibarra, a spokesperson for the public defender’s office, said in a statement announcing the acquittal.

In court, Maria’s teenaged children testified that they received the sexually explicit video from the man, whom they had never met, according to the public defender’s office. Co-workers testified that the man regularly followed her to and from work.

Maria was facing a felony assault charge, but this story has a feel good ending. Once a jury heard the full story they acquitted her. It’s not clear if the creep with the scar who (allegedly) sent a video to her children has been charged with anything yet. Maybe the DA can look into that.

It’s good to know there are still some things on which Americans on different sides of the aisle politically can still agree. Dropping a legal hammer on people who engage in revenge porn and stalking is one of those.