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| Sex tape caper results in 2nd arrest |
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Posted: Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:33 am
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KENNETH TAYLOR, LEFT, and BRIAN BUSH
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By GERRY L. DICKERT
The Bee
A Silsbee woman who was unknowingly videotaped while having sex has gone public with her story, saying that she refuses to be quiet in the face of being victimized.
Danielle Taylor says that the arrest of her step-father Kenneth Taylor on charges of improper photography or visual recording this past week has devastate her. But she wants to make sure that the guilt does not fall solely on his shoulders.
Also arrested on Friday, Feb. 13 on the same charges was Danielle’s husband, Brian Bush, also of Silsbee.
The Silsbee Bee does not ordinarily identify the victims in criminal cases. Danielle Taylor insisted, though, that telling her story was more important than anonymity in this situation.
The unlikely triangle of Danielle, her husband and her step-father resulted when Danielle left her husband and later started seeing another man. Danielle explained that she and David met in January 2008 and separated in either September or October of 2008. Their court date to finalize their divorce is set for April 13, she said.
According to Danielle, neither her soon-to-be ex-husband nor her step-father liked her new fiance’ and she says Bush took steps to put an end to that relationship.
“On Dec. 30, I made a very bad decision. I had been drinking, went over to my father’s house. My husband and I were in a trailer behind my father’s house and that’s where it happened,” she explained. “Apparently that’s where the video cameras were set up. I was unaware that there were video cameras set up. If I had known, this would not have taken place. I was cheating on my fiance’, first of all.”
She explained that her step-father was responsible for setting up the camera equipment. Danielle said that several days later Bush called and told her there was a videotape of the sexual encounter between them and that if she didn’t break off her relationship with her new fiance’, he would mail that tape to him.
But all along, Danielle says she wasn’t sure if Bush was telling the truth about the tape.
“I never really knew if there was a videotape for sure,” she said.
According to Danielle, Bush continued to threaten her with revealing the video throughout the months of January and February.
Finally, on Monday, Feb. 9, she said she received a call from Bush saying he had made a mistake and that he had mailed to video to her fiance’.
“He called me and said he did something very bad,” she said. “He said he had sent the DVD by UPS and addressed it to my fiance’.”
After she received the video by mail on Wednesday, she took the DVD to the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday to press charges.
After investigators watched the video to ascertain its contents, they issued a warrant for the arrest of Kenneth Taylor and Bush. Taylor was arrested on Friday, Feb. 13, at the Edwards-Johnson Memorial Silsbee Middle School where he served as a substitute teacher. Bush was arrested at his home in Silsbee.
“I never watched the video. There’s no way I would. It was difficult to know that they (investigators) had to watch it,” she said. “But I wasn’t going to let this go.”
And although she has been devastated by the actions of her father and husband, she says she would rather not see her father go to jail in this issue.
“He’s in very bad health. I don’t want to see him go to prison,” Danielle said. “But I want my husband to go to jail.”
If convicted, the two men could face up to two years in prison. Both have bonded out of the Hardin County jail after their arrest. |
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