I don’t know where to put this. Maybe there’s a debate to be had but I don’t have any opinions on teen sexting. It just seems very strange to charge her as an adult for a crime against herself as a minor.
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Pathetic horseshit that needs to go to goddamn supreme court, how on earth can you commit a crime against YOURSELF.
Yeah, at the risk of bringing out the contrarians, I’ll go ahead and agree that this is catastrophically stupid. I’m just so glad I’m not associated with the D.A., the cops, or the lawmakers in any way.
Hopefully she’s not in a position of authority…
That has long been the law and it can be enforced extremely seriously if law enforcement, prosecutors and the judicial system choose to. The basic idea is that they really don’t want underage nude photos or porn going into general circulation even if the initial distributor is the model herself (or himself).
I hope the judicial system goes easy on her but the child pornography laws are so Draconian in some states that almost anyone could be caught up in a harsh sting if the letter of the law is followed. I don’t mean intentional stuff. Even a virus or an e-mail could theoretically trigger a prison sentence for an unknowing person in a state with strict liability laws for such things.
grude, it is very possible to commit many crimes against yourself. This is not the only example by far.
Then make it a misdemeanor for a minor to create child porn of themself, tada.
I’m curious what other crimes you can commit where you are the victim, got a cite?
I thought in strict liability the state is the victim or something like that.
How can she be charged as an adult for creating the photos AND violating a minor? Either she is an adult or not right?
If sexual exploration of oneself at 16 is a crime, I shoulda been locked up with the hardest of criminals.
Smoking marijuana. Who’s the victim of that crime?
The case that the OP linked to is not unique. Teens all over the country have been prosecuted for distributing pictures of themselves, the result of laws written before phones had cameras. While we should do everything possible to inform teens that distributing nude photos of oneself or anyone else is abysmally stupid, it should not be a crime.
All of us, that’s who. 
I don’t think smoking marijuana is a crime, possession is.
(I agree with you)
I wonder if a teen caught masturbating is charged with child molestation of themself, what if they admit to tens of thousands of molestations of themself?
One reason it might be taken seriously is what happens if a girl takes an explicit picture of herself and then sends it to an adult? They immediately become guilty of possessing child porn, right? Even if they didn’t request it.
Anybody who is surprised at this has not paid attention to the news for the past several years.
What’s strange is that she wasn’t charged with sending the photo, just taking and possessing it. An adult with a photo of an underage person is doing it for sexual purposes, a person with a photo of themselves is obviously not. That’s the same as looking in the mirror naked. If anything, I’d think she’d be charged for sending it.
The two obvious ones are attempting suicide/suicide and drug abuse/use. But I do find it interesting that this has come up other places as well.
We’ve just had a case reported of what sounds, on the face of it, to be a similar over-reaction.
A boy who sent a naked photo of himself to a girl at school has had the crime of making and distributing indecent images recorded against him by police, the BBC has learnt.
I don’t think it is per se illegal to use or abuse drugs or be a drug addict, just possession right? I realize that one has to follow the other.
It does make one weep for the future doesn’t it?
Christ, I think about the consensual sexual activity myself and my friends got up to at age 14-16 and shiver at the thought of any of that being captured for posterity.
Were that in the age of snapface or instatweet I’m pretty sure none of us would have escaped the long arm of the law.
Kids are kids, draconian reactions like this aren’t going protect anyone and nor are they going to change a teenager behaviour in response to raging hormones. you’ve got to hope that sanity will prevail here and a reasonable and measured judgement will be made.
The frightening part for me as a parent is that my little ones still have this to negotiate. My wife and I have no interaction with social media at all and nor do the kids but, sure as eggs is eggs, they are going to have to navigate their way through it at some point. We do have dining table conversations about exactly these sort of situations though, so hopefully they’ll have a watchful wariness when the time comes.
Is the crime merely making? Or sending? Thats distinguishable. The former is difficult to accept as reasonable the latter completely unexceptional.
I think you mean exploitation. Charged for exploration would be more like… more like… dammit kids, get off my lawn!
New Improved Rule 34, now with bleach…!
My mother has lots of naked photos of young kids. Her Children. I don’t think it’s for sexual purposes.