Third teenage girl charged in child pornography case
Charge her with being lewd or lascivious behavior or whatever… but child porn?
At some point aren’t prosecutors required to use common sense?
Unfortunately, it seems like common sense is strictly optional these days.
I think I agree.
I mean, if the girl were 18, then I could see it.
Blah.
I don’t think we should be hasty in our judgements here.
First we should see the evidence and decide whether it is really pornographic. Just to be fair to all concerned…
Even I don’t have the balls to say that.
Kudoos to you good sir!
God bless America.
I love this place…
Kinda like shooting fish in a barrel, isn’t it?
Oh, and just for argument’s sake…sounds to me like a cop with a child/teen porn fetish has it easy…he can’t be arrested for it. “Oh, I was just MONITORING that website…you know…going after the perps and all that…”
If he was monitoring the site, my guess is that it was part of his job. In other words, that he was assigned to do that. Perhaps he doesn’t have any fetish at all.
You know what’s really fucked up about this? The age of consent in Rhode Island is sixteen. Also, as far as i can tell, the state (thankfully) has no laws against homosexual sex.
So, it would have been legal for these three girls to indulge in a three-way carpet-munching dildo-fest, but it’s illegal for them to take nude pictures of one another.
I’ll see you guys in a few weeks. I’m off to Rhode Island! 
Interesting. I’m going to be monitoring some websites later tonight.
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I know investigators and cops who have to do this. (My hubby works in a prison, and they often have to investigate images which are sent in to the inmates.)
All joking aside, these guys are often somewhat traumatized by seeing them. I’ve seen tears in their eyes when they talk about what they’ve seen. It takes a very strong person to remain professional in these circumstances.
That said, I think this particular case from the OP is ridiculous.
[QUOTE=mhendo Also, as far as i can tell, the state (thankfully) has no laws against homosexual sex.
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No state does.The anti-sodomy laws were all nullified by Lawrence v. Texas in 2001.
Why don’t I know any 16 -19 year olds like this?
Gaudere, I’m going to hit you.
Right.
What i should have said was that R.I. doesn’t have any separate age of consent for homosexual sex.
Actually, i’d be interested in knowing whether Lawrence v. Texas also nullified such age of consent laws. That is, would it be acceptable for a a state to set a different age of consent for gay sex than for stright sex (e.g., 18 for homosexual sex; 16 for heterosexual sex)?
Yes it did, and no the state can’t. Shortly after SCOTUS ruled in Lawrence, it ruled on Limon v Kansas. Matthew Limon was imprisoned at age 18 for having consensual oral sex with a 14 year old boy. If the 14 year old had been a girl, Limon’s maximum sentence could have been 15 months under the state’s so-called “Romeo and Juliet” law, which allows for lesser penalties if the offender is close in age to the “victim.” Because Limon and the boy were of the same sex, Limon was sentenced to 17 years in prison. SCOTUS sent the case back to the Kansas courts with an instruction to re-rule consistent with the Court’s finding in Lawrence. A unanimous Kansas supreme court vacated his conviction and sentence (after he’d spent over 5 years in prison) and struck down the part of the state’s R&J law that allowed for unequal treatment of same-sex offenders as unconstitutional.
What’s really absurd about the law is if she had taken pictures of herseld she could still be charged with making child porn and if convicted have to register as a sex offender. If both parties are minors things should be handled differently that an adult and a minor. If they’re close in age (not a 16 and a 6 yr old) then they should just get counseling or a fine.