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Teen charged for child porn for posting nude photos of herself
This is a really strange situation in my opinion, that has been happening over the past year or so, in a few different places in the US.
Teens posting or emailing nude photos of themselves on myspace or to friends are being prosecuted on child porn charges, which in some cases can lead to having to register as a sex offender and even jail time. Quote:
But is the solution to prosecute minors for child porn over their own photos? I tend to think that is not the answer. Whatever this is, it's a pretty warped way to try and control when and how teens become sexual beings, and an exaggeration of the consequences that should be brought upon these youngsters for these actions. Society as a whole has a responsibility for this behaviour. Can we really blame teens for copying what they see, read and hear on TV, the internet, and other media? Somewhere along the way, the parents, and the schools, are dramatically failing in their job to educate young kids. The silence on many more 'extreme' sexual issues (that are now becoming mainstream it seems) that is still prevalent between teens and those supposed to be their main source of advice and, on the other side, the enormous amount of information available through other media, appears to produce a distortion in kids minds on how best to address the reality of becoming a sexual being that occurs in the teenage years. Here are a couple more links on this topic: Naked Photos, E-Mail Get Teens in Trouble ‘Sexting’ surprise: Teens face child porn charges Police blotter: Teens prosecuted for racy photos I would love to be able to say there is one, good, solution to solving this problem. But I can't pretend this is simple to work out in my head. It's not. I think the solution lies in possibly educating kids who are 'caught' doing this, specifically targeting this behaviour. As for how to prevent it...I'd like to say parenting but it's too easy to point a finger without knowing the circumstances. Someone could have the most caring and attentive parents in the world and this could still happen. Don't you think? |
Wow, I think this is absolutely insane. Charging uneducated teens for stupid choices is absolute hogwash. I agree fully with you that this is a lack of education. I don't know when the world decided to keep its children in the dark as much as possible and to shun education, but it needs to stop.
Registering a 14 year old girl as a sex offender seems absolutely absurd to me. What happens when she is in her 20's and trying to get her first career? |
The law and the judge involved in this case should all be sacked.
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Sometimes people will bring charges and lawsuits just for the publicity. I think it's an effective way to get teens and their parents to realize that this shit goes on. And while I don't agree that it's child porn, I think it's worth talking about with your kids about the longevity that images like this can have.
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This thread needs pictures.
Just kidding, but I feel for the girl. She did something small and it gets blown way out of proportion to make a point. And the real problem is that there is no easy way to tell if underage pictures were taken with the kids permission or they were paid or forced to do so. The government decides to ban all of them and creates a list of offenders. I think people are too uptight about nudity, even child nudity. If she took pictures of her having sex, then that is another story (because you don't know if she was paid or forced to do it). But it isn't these softcore pictures that will ruin her life. In the 80s & 90s, the pictures would have made it around school, people would have looked and in a week they wouldn't care anymore. Though she would be known as the naked girl for years to the boys in her class. Now, if she gets put on a list of sex offenders or has to serve jail/juvi time for child porn, that will impact her life in huge ways. |
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Parents need to sit down and talk to their teens about the ramifications of posting their nude teenage bodies online or to friends. Sure, it's only human to be naked, but when you are an emotionally fragile teenage girl, it can devastate you to find out that little picture of your breasts has been passed from your boyfriend to all of his friends and to all of their friends. Although they may be far from it, they will then be labeled as a slut/whore/easy. Most kids just aren't mature enough to realize or think far enough into the future about that one little action. I do find that forcing them to file as a sex offender is a little harsh. Maybe scale down the punishment a little to being expelled, probation, or even volunteering to do school lectures to other teens about the harm in posting or emailing nude photos. I think I might be rambling, but I've actually been thinking about this a lot since I first saw the story a few days ago. I'm also a member on a mostly teen site and had debated on posting it to get their insight and opinions on the subject. I changed my mind, though. I'm no good at starting these threads. |
At this point, each and every one of us has made stupid, "I-Can't-Believe-I-Put-That-On-The-Internet" mistakes, although not all of them are of the naked variety.
I think cases like this are perfect examples of American puritanism, where we collectively wig out when we discover to our horror that kids have sexual feelings, and interact with each other sexually, and yes, sometimes have sex. We totally have to get over it. And don't get me wrong, I am not opposed to having a little extra legal protection to prevent people from completely taking advantage of youthful inexperience. But this is just sick. Sick! Prosecuting a person for taking pictures of their own body and sharing them?!! That is inexcusable, both in the sense of repression winning one over freedom, but also in the sense that I cannot imagine a worse message to send to a young person: it's wrong to be proud of your body and want to share it and have it be admired! Showing your body is so bad, we'll mark you as a criminal psycho forever! I hope the prosecutor and the judge involved in persecuting this poor girl break both their legs. They should just be ashamed at being involved with something so despicable. |
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I don't think the girls are likely to get prosecuted, locally this happened and the according to the local news the ACLU took up the charge defending the girls' actions under 'freedom of expression' and apparently won a restraining order against the DA. I don't see what good could come of actually prosecuting these girls, you know other than ruining their lives for doing something that didn't hurt anyone. At all.
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I'm mystified that law enforcement thinks they need to be all over 14 yr old kids sending naked pictures of themselves to people they know. Public posting is going too far, but pics directed to a single person via text or email? Back in my day we called it "you show me yours and I'll show you mine".
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Sorry for the rant. As to the OP yes, I think it's nuts to charge her with a sex crime. |
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