14 year old girl arrested for child pornography.

[RagnorakTres]

This is just about as stupid as charging those girls in Pennsylvania with KPD. She had no intention of sharing those pictures with anyone but her boyfriend.

The US's Justice system is so fucked up at this point (between light drug users being convicted and incarcerated instead of dealers, and this shit) that I honestly think we need some sort of revolution or something. The Government needs to wake up and smell the manure in their backyard. As long as there have been people and cameras, there have been racy photos. A human's brain is not fully developed until the individual in question is 22, at least. I am not a fully functional human being. I am a teenager, subject to the vagaries of hormones and peer pressure.

I read the article and noticed that the ACLU is getting in on this...on the right side for once, at least in my opinion. The stupidity that is "political correctness" is mostly their fault. But they are arguing that charging a young woman, not fully developed mentally yet, with life-altering crimes, is detrimental to her health even more than the pictures themselves are.

Just about the only thing I agree with about this situation is that they are not releasing her name. If they did, she would be forever known as "that girl who posted nude pics on Myspace."

Congratulations, US Justice System. You have succesfully fucked up another life.

 

[Asehujiko]

A 70 year blacklisting from any job that pays more then the minimum wage, all neighborhoods with more criminal records then inhabitants and being the equivalent of a black person with a bullseye on his shirt at a kkk meeting when it comes to any future interaction with government personnel for her and everybody who had cache turned on(99% of the population)?

Overreacting? Whats that? Can you eat it?

A talking to from the parents and a "no noodz on maispess" message from the site admins should me more then enough.

 

[Mask of 1000 Faces]

Congratulations, US Justice System. You have succesfully fucked up another life.

*puts another mark under the "fucked up" column*

This is looking one sided. Unfucked has almost none.

 

[Matronadena]

In most first world nations under their own laws, and re-affirmed with the UN child protection act signed by all member nations the legal age is 18.. no and if or buts.. there are some going on about how it can be destructive because those pictures don't stay private for long ( I was a kid once, so trust me when I say kids are dumb...a girl sends a pic to her boy toy, he shows a friend, a friend who wants to break them up gets it and sends it all over, or another girl sends it all over etc etc etc)

but there comes a safety measure too when it comes to it falling into the hands of predators..


it's long and complex to get into...but here is how it still breaks down regardless of how you look at it.

" distribution, or possession of images of minors in sexual, or sexually suggestive nature" is illegal

kids should know this... I was a kid once, I know hormones make us think the stupidest things are a good idea.....very very rarely think about a bigger picture...but legality is legality.

sure, I'm an adult now, and a parent.. If and when my boys get old enough to want things like magazines and what not of girls... cool that's natural, that's normal.. I'm the sorta mom that will not care of the playboy stash they have " hell I'll buy them ones now and then " HEHE, my mother got me collector issues from the time I was young" But atleast I know they are looking at adults... they start hoarding pics of lil girls and get in trouble for it, they dug their own grave on that one...

so no, I don't think she should get away with it.. though slapping her with a sex offender label is a little hash, because even as a type 1 thats still going to follow her her whole life......she is a stupid kid who made a stupid choice....while she SHOULD be punished, I'm more thinking to bring back scared straight...show her files, and images of things sex offenders do to little boys and girls to try to act like grown up, show her a dead hooker in a trashcan...( if she's in a medium to large city thats easy to find"

but just... show her she's playing with fire

take away her phone/camera-limit net ability put her on probation...call it a day

 

[Erana]

Really thats just disturbing.

Inform the girl of the legal ramifications of her actions, and get her a therapist.

I suppose its good to see them taking some action against this sort of stuff, just the way they are going about it seems to be odd.

Yeah...
Pretty much.

*sighs* Our culture is so screwed up.

 

[Susurrus]

At the very least its a miss-application of the law, I would have thought.

On the other hand, I imagine its hard to have a law which prohibits such an unexpected turn of events.

Public indecency cannot be the charge because this is the internets.. If it was public indecency, well, what about the porn industry?

I'd be interested in knowing *NOT* seeing, but knowing, the nudity that took place, because it seems.. unwise.. at best..

 

[Susurrus]

Also, I followed the link, and I don't know if anyone had this problem, but I immediately IMMEDIATELY got a virus notification from my virus scan. Probably worth virus-scanning your computer if you didnt get a notification.

 

[Nimbus]

wow, prosecuted for staring in child porn, does this mean that if some pedo went and molested some kid, the kid would be in the shit when the police came knocking?

No, because that's clearly child abuse.

I think the reason she was charged with distribution of child porn was (aside from the obvious technicality that she did) that they didn't have a better charge for her. Kids at that age are going to experiment sexually and socially, usually intermingling the two to some extent. You can't really stop it; at that age kids are finding their identities and are so doused in hormones that to limit things too much would stunt their growths as individuals. However, I think that there is something fundamentally demeaning about sending naked photos to yourself of anyone, even within a relationship (I can understand a long-distance or long-term relationship, but not one of these "omg wev been 2gethor 4 2 weeks" things). While you may gain something in the short term, it comes at the expense of your integrity, and I think in most cases, what the other person in the transaction gains will outweigh yours. Teens are by and large unable to understand the long-term, significant consequences of their actions, and while there are of course exceptions, I do think that we need to have some sort of regulation in place to prevent this stuff - not necessarily for the sake of protection from potential predators, but for developing a strong sense of self-worth for these kids that will follow them later in life.

Such a regulation is already in place. I believe it is called "parenting". Not sure on that though, might have to look it up.
[/sarcasm]

Seriously, this is pretty messed up. Distributing child porn? By posting naked pics of yourself to a networking site?

Please.

Kids are going to experimnet during puberty. If you want to change that you might as well move the sun, the moon and the stars while you are at it.

 

[Mask of 1000 Faces]

Also, I followed the link, and I don't know if anyone had this problem, but I immediately IMMEDIATELY got a virus notification from my virus scan. Probably worth virus-scanning your computer if you didnt get a notification.

Try not to double post, there's an "edit" button near the bottom right of your post for a reason.

And are you sure its just not you? My anti-virus didn't say a thing to me.

 

[t.tocs]

Also, I followed the link, and I don't know if anyone had this problem, but I immediately IMMEDIATELY got a virus notification from my virus scan. Probably worth virus-scanning your computer if you didnt get a notification.

Try not to double post, there's an "edit" button near the bottom right of your post for a reason.

And are you sure its just not you? My anti-virus didn't say a thing to me.

It's safe. If you got a virus notification it was for something else you were doing. Try a different tab.

 

[searanox]

Kids are going to experimnet during puberty. If you want to change that you might as well move the sun, the moon and the stars while you are at it.

I never said we need to deny experimentation, but we need to teach children to have confidence in themselves. Females are already taught from day one by the media and the corporate world that their appearance is all that really matters; gaining validation from posting naked pictures of yourself does not give power, it cheapens and objectifies you, insofar as your value only exists as far as your physical appearance goes. That is not a good way for people to think, and we need a way to teach kids it's wrong - not necessarily by making it a criminal offense, but there needs to be someone to step in, because parents simply cannot be trusted to do the right thing.

 

[Eiseman]

Man, forget all this legal ostracizing bullshit. All you need to do to fix this girl is make her pick up trash on the highway. While wearing a big sign reading "I'M A WHORE, THROW TRASH AT ME." Now that's community service.

 

[Alex_P]

In england they call that "Normal".

Really? Given that you guys created the Internet Watch Foundation and forced it on most of your ISPs, I find that hard to believe.

-- Alex

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

Yeah, Teens having naked pictures isnt that big of deal really. Infact, I could name 10 people in my school I have heard tell me about there sexual encounters, atleast 50 girls with naked pictures on the web, and another 10 who are pregnant.

 

[orifice]

This is just stupid. The parents should be dealing with this, not the courts.

 

[Xvito]

Her parents should be sent to jail instead... Stupid bastards who can't keep an eye on their kid.

 

[Psypherus]

It doesnt matter what age you are or even if it's your own body. Placing the pictures on the internet makes her guilty of distributing child pornography.

P.S. What is a 14 year old kid doing taking nude pictures of themselves?

 

[Blaxton]

One day, babies will be arrested for being born naked.

Nudity is so wrong... seriously, I mean, I know they're young but they should have put something on before coming out of the womb?

But, really, if you step back from society for a second, it's really hilarious that nudity is illegal in most cases. Basically if you're not at home, in private, you can't be naked. Or I guess at a nudist resort or something.