teen arrested for child porn... of self the hell?
#1
Posted 29 March 2009 - 12:23 AM
So, apparently, this 14 year old, she could face jail time and registering as a sex offender because she posted naked pictures of herself on myspace. This zero tolerance thing is just brilliant. Apparently its occuring more and more often. I'm not in any way for any of that stuff, but if you're under eighteen you should still be able to see yourself naked without being arrested. I think, as usual, people are worried more about the letter of the law than the spirit.
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#3
Posted 30 March 2009 - 01:19 AM
It's like they figure there's no point in reporting anything without attaching some national emergency to it.
#4
Posted 30 March 2009 - 03:31 AM
Nope. It definitely is a growing trend. Very fast growing trend. You'd be surprised, apparently.
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#5
Posted 30 March 2009 - 01:36 PM
Edit: Wouldn't it be great if parents were able to tell their children that sending naked photos of themselves isn't cool, and if there were no need for them to get arrested and charged as sex offenders for it? What sort of strange fantasy world would this be where parents, and not the police or anti-child abuse groups could take care of their own children?
This post has been edited by J m HofMarN: 30 March 2009 - 01:40 PM
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#6
Posted 31 March 2009 - 05:12 AM
If it's somthing bigger thab that, yeah I'd like to see the stats.
This sounds to me like the whole bullshit "rainbow parties" phenomenon, as reported on Oprah.
#7
Posted 31 March 2009 - 06:21 AM
How many of those cases reach the courts wouldn't really be a reliable statistic - it's comparable to the relative number of people going to court because they've been ripped off by elongation-spam-mails. Who'd want to make that stuff public?
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#8
Posted 31 March 2009 - 09:45 AM
Teenagers and preteens have always done stupid shit: they want to be the center of attention, have body image issues, want compliments, want to feel love, etc. Now it's just way easy for one of those stupid things to be taking a naked (or undies) pic and putting it up. There are seriously a LOT of preteens and teens doing this. It was even a pretty high occurrence just a few years ago when I was a teenager, and I do think it's grown since then.
#9
Posted 31 March 2009 - 01:03 PM
I think that rather than drawing attention to this massive tidal wave of teens creating porn of themselves that threatens to engulf our society, we should be focusing more on the fact that kids are being prosecuted as sex offenders because of it.
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#11
Posted 31 March 2009 - 08:06 PM
If these folks can show that there is a growing trend of STDs and teen pregnancy, then maybe some parents out there have some parenting to do. Otherwise I stand by my "rainbow parties analogy" and I say it's all hype.
I agree with jm on this one that these folks need to think about who the child porn laws were designed to protect, and lay off prosecuting children.
#12
Posted 01 April 2009 - 12:58 AM
And I agree that these convictions are ridiculous, but I do think kids need to be made more aware of the danger they put themselves in when they do stuff like this. And they should get in trouble when they are caught. And as usual parents don't do the job of it, so the government thinks they need to step in, and maybe they do (I don't even care to try to make my own opinion on that at the mo') but this isn't the way of it.
If I had been caught doing shit like this when I was a teen, or heck, even NOW, I wouldn't be alive to get convicted.
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Posted 05 April 2009 - 08:39 PM
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