Teens Face Child Porn Charges... For Taking Nude Photos Of Themselves
from the victimizing-themselves dept
There was just that report noting that 20% of teens admitted to sending around sexually explicit photos of themselves -- and now, six high school students in Pennsylvania are facing child porn charges because the three girls took naked photos of themselves and sent them to some boys (thanks to everyone who sent this in).
The girls are charged with manufacturing, disseminating or possessing child pornography, while the boys who received the photos are charged with possession.
Now, it's pretty clear that the girls did something dumb here -- but teens do an awful lot of dumb things.
It's part of growing up.
Getting charged with child porn for taking photos of yourself and then being labeled a sex offender for the rest of your life seems... a bit extreme.
This is why we've pointed out that laws, like the one in Georgia, that require sex offenders to hand over not just their emails, but passwords to all their accounts, are so ridiculous.
If someone is actually found to be dealing in child porn, that's one thing -- but casting such a wide net is clearly overkill.
