Posted on 03/23/2009 12:19:57 PM PDT by ignorancerunsrampant
Various sources:
EDMONTON — An 11-year-old girl used her cellphone to chase off a stranger offering her a ride on her way to school, Edmonton police say.
FLORIDA -— Girl, 6, calls 911 for mom after auto accident. “I said ‘Are you Ok?’ She said, ‘Yes,’” Alyson recalls. “She said, ‘Mom, are you OK?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ I tried to turn around and look at her, and she said, ‘Mom, you’re bleeding, I need to call 911.’”
SAN ANTONIO -— The call to 911 came from a young girl, perhaps 12 or 13 years old, hiding in an upstairs closet in her parents’ home.
Two burglars were inside, the girl said, and she was alone and feared for her life. “You could barely hear anything she was saying,” recalls Terry Ayala, a 911 clerk supervisor at SAPD.
MASSACHUSETTS -— A nine-year-old girl has been found using a mobile phone signal and Google Street View. A police officer and a firefighter in Athol, Massachusetts, joined forces after authorities were alerted that Natalie Maltais had been taken.
You mean a girlfriend who would take naked pictures of herself and text them out to a boy? Hey. If she had no respect for herself... why would he?
I want to know why a girl at that age would think sending a naked photo would be a good idea? Who gave her the phone with built-in camera feature? I don’t see this as the schools problem I see this as kids who aren’t being supervised with technology enough.
Those ‘existing laws against kids being sexually exploited’ simply can’t be applied against those boys in this case. If she was a minor, yes, the boys would probably be charged with possession and distribution of child porn. However, the girl in this case was 18, and therefore it was perfectly legal for herself to take such photos of herself, and perfectly legal for her to send it to her boyfriend and her boyfriend to send it to his friends... In this case, there’s no real legal aspect, just bad judgment (and possibly some mental health issues, as not every woman who has ‘naughty’ photos surface goes and kills herself) on the girl’s part and immoral but unsurprising behaviour on the boys’ part.
It’s difficult for any living person to understand the agony that a person feels before committing suicide. That’s why we are living and the suicidal person is not.
If you want government to pass laws to stop adults doing foolish things, you’ll get government.
Why is his action criminal and hers is not? Look, once you’ve sent any image, object, email, text, or document over the airwaves, it’s now vulnerable to public scrutiny. How do we even know it was him who did it and not someone who hacked his computer or phone and forwarded it. Did he take the picture of her, or did she? If he took the picture, then i suppose he’s complicit. Otherwise, if she hadn’t sent the picture to him, he’d have nothing to send. I hope you realize that.
A girl in our school district [eigth grade] sent a photo to a boy friend [eigth grade]. He forwarded it to EVERYBODY. Girls parents found out. Boy suspended by the school for ten days [not sure why]. Girl was fined by the state of Illinois $650.00 [not sure why].
Some local municipalities may consider it trafficking child pornography, even if it’s a child doing the trafficking. That may explain the fine. I think there should be consequences for both parties. I don’t think you should just blame the boy for circulating a picture a girl made the choice to send him in the first place. Choices have consequences. For everyone.
“It’s a girl’s fault when she gets pregnant too. “
And If the guy gets pregnant ?
It’s amazing. 13 year olds know better than to shoplift. They know better than to drive under age. They know better than to drink or do drugs.
But sex? They are just innocent victims.
I send several things per day. Everything that I send has a disclaimer. If a girl sends a picture to a guy she would be slightly more bright than dim to attach a disclaimer that says it is intended for the person it was sent and that the person receiving it is not allowed to duplicate, replicate, forward, or diseminate under penalty of law.
Well, I’m the father of six children, four of them boys. If any one of my boys did something like that to any girl I would kick his ass.
Of course, I’m pretty well a neanderthal who believes that it’s the male’s responsibility to take care of his woman.
Obviously you don’t believe in that....
Is there a link to this story or are you a writer, working on a story idea? City and state would be helpful, too.
Google ... jessica logan’s sexting death
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