TMZ hits new low

By Kevin Roderick | April 30, 2008 10:42 AM

Time Warner-AOL's celebrity gossip site posted the identity and photo of a 14-year-old boy whose sole newsworthiness is that he's the victim of unlawful sex with an adult woman and is related to a celebrity. The Smoking Gun takes them apart.


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