Sexting: Receiver can face charges, too

If you wanna flirt, fine. Do it with your clothes on.

 

I suppose you never did anything at all illegal or stupid when you were a kid. But, just supposing you weren't the soul of perfection and you had...would you want those actions to destroy your entire life forever? Do you actually think it's right to tag dumb--and, admittedly, immodest--kids with a 'sex offender' label for doing something that harms no one?

 

They are to the point that one prosecutor was threatening two teenage girls with charges over some pics they had of themselves in their underwear. Their mothers sued him and he acted surprised. All 900lbs of him.

 

Now I'm waiting to see if a case turns up where some teens were arrested for pictures of summer break at the beach.

 

Yeah. They're not being nice about either, it's not some indecency charge. They're charging them with creation and distribution of child pornography and whatever else they can stack up against them. They are really trying to utterly destroy these kids for the rest of their lives.

 

Why not go back in time a little.

Say 15 years ago.

Girl gets a girl friend to take a polaroid shot of her in the nude. She gives the picture to a boy she likes. He now has a photo of her in the nude in her possession. He goes around showing it to his friends.

He leaves the said photo and home or gives it to an older friend over 18.

18 yr old is found with this in his possession during a traffic stop. It is determined that the age of the girl is 14. He is charged with child pornography.

At what point did the picture become pornography?

 

The law would say at the point the film was developed.

 

If your a child, and you take a pic in your underwear (or even worse nude or explicit), and send it to someone unprovoked, how can that person be charged with child porn? They didn't have a choice whether to receive it or not. Verizon doesn't send a message, "Open at your own risk. Naked pic from your 16 y/o girlfriend".

Kids are stupid. I was. But sending them to jail on kiddie porn charges? Stupid. If it was a 30 year old guy that had pics like that, I can see. But some dopey high school kid?

 

The point is that the picture alone is child pornography.

Possession of such is in the law.