16 yr old girl takes naked selfies and gets charged with child pornography!

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runzwithsizorz

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Quote from the article;
"A school resource officer was informed of the then-publicly available photographs’ lewd nature, and talked with both the teen and her mother about the situation". "Authorities then confiscated her phone and charged her with one count of distribution of child pornography".
Most kids now days are fairly savvy,(sneaky), This is probably why Snap-Chat is so popular with them now. Isn't there a way to block some content on a Twitter account so that only the ones you want to see it can?
I find it hard to believe that she posted the pics for the whole world to see. This leads me to think there was a snitch at her school. Also, you would think she would have locked her phone, did the cops have to hack it? I can pretty much guarantee you it wasn't a female officer that checked those photos. All these adults scrambling to get a look at a young girl naked. I have to wonder who the REAL perverts are. Oh, and, "she will likely have to complete a Sexting Education program", WTF is that?, a 4 hour, 4 hundred dollar detention no doubt, (kinda like traffic school), yeah, that'll teach her.
Back when I was in high school, 69-72, there was plenty of eye candy, right there in the hallways, and out on the quad, and guess what? nobody cared.
 

Spungo

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New technology is going to change how society looks at nudity.
Ha, no it won't. Everyone is looking for a reason to put their neighbor in jail. This is what everyone has been waiting for. We made drugs illegal so we could jail millions of people. We put police in schools so being arrested for no reason is seen as normal. Being able to arrest everyone who sends out dick pics or boob pics is the American dream.


Child porn laws were put in place to stop children from being exploited. There is no exploitation in self expression.
It will be legal to take pictures of yourself when it becomes legal to work for $5/h. It won't happen. Any new or changed laws will be designed to jail as many people as possible. No exceptions.
 

Newell Steamer

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Since the child these laws seek to protect is the offender, just charge her with lewd conduct?

I honestly don't know what the solution to this would be.