SEXting
Help!
I noticed my son, 15 yrs. old, was running up our cell phone bill. I quickly confiscated it and found pictures sent to him by an adult married woman, supposedly the wife of a "friend" he met playing Xbox. Now understand I gave him the whole, you can't trust who you talk to on line. There are people out there that will hurt you. Do not give out personal info, nor ask for any. And DO NOT do any thing tht you have been taught is wrong. He has been raised in a christian home and christian values.
I asked his best friends mom to check her sons phone and she found that the woman had text them asking for pictures of the boys be sent to her...they only sent a portrait head shot, unfortuntely my son sent "plenty" of pictures back to her.
I explained how wrong it is and that he essentually was cyber raped and that I was going to the police with the info and that she would be held responsible. He, instead of being embarrassed from being caught and by his mom, was upset because I was going to ruin her life. She has successfully brainwashed him.
Now my problem is, if I follow thru and take the phone/bill to the police in our small village, I am afraid he will be labeled for life, or worse arrested. He is a good boy and I know that it was probaly every young mans dream to be "LOVED" by an older woman, but I feel he was violated. This is worse than when a boy gets caught with a dirty magazine, the pictures don't talk back, ask you questions that would curl your hair. They aren't real...this woman is and she is preying on the innocence of youth. There's no telling how many young men she is playing with.
I have removed his Xbox from his room. He cannot be online without somone else present and positively no cell phone.
How do I hold her accountable without any further damage to my son and my family?
And can I go to the state police office instead of here local, for some type of privacy?
In this day and age sex is too readily available and whether you are looking or not it will find you...
Last edited by Blondie26; 03-23-2009 at 09:49 PM..
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