Posted on 04/14/2008 6:33:21 AM PDT by batter
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Forget about passing notes in study hall; some teens are now using their cell phones to flirt and send nude pictures of themselves.
The instant text, picture and video messages have become part of some teens' courtship behavior, police and school officials said.
The messages often spread quickly and sometimes find their way to public Web sites.
"I've seen everything from your basic striptease to sexual acts being performed," said Reynoldsburg police Detective Brian Marvin, a member of the FBI Cyber Crime Task Force of Central Ohio. "You name it, they will do it at their home under this perceived anonymity."
Westerville Central High School senior Jerome Ray said he's received such unsolicited messages, including one from a classmate while he was sitting with his girlfriend.
"A lot more girls are aggressive," said Ray, 18. "Some girls are crazy and they are putting themselves out there."
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The end quote of the article sums it up well - "They don't see anything wrong with it," he said. "It leaves me speechless."
Hard core porn is becoming way too common and nearly acceptable behavior. You’ve come a long ways baby.
Seems a lot of kids just have no moral compass whatsoever.
Isnt this child pornography?
I don't like zero tolerance stupidity, but I fail to see how pictures of naked students can NOT be a legal violation.
We are in the end times-—that’s all I can think of to explain something like this.
Since it is perpetrated by minors, prosecution depends on the jurisdiction. Posting the images on the web (or sending them to adults), however, would, probably, elevate the charges as your are then distributing the images to adults.
And we had to go to National Geographic for pics.
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As far as the enforcement of the law is concerned, you may be right. But I have a real problem with laws (any laws) which are applied to "some folks" while others are given a pass. If the statutes on child pornography specifically say that distribution to kids is A-OK, then fine. But I suspect that the statutes do not contain any age demarcation at which child pornography is OK.
One law for all the people. No special classes.
We have Hollywood and feminism to thank for the destruction of our society.
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This is a very upscale area. Surely, their schools would be considered a “good” schools.
Isn't it amazing how almost all of these school outrage stories are from schools that would be considered “good”....BUT...we all know that this in **not** happening in the “good” schools of the government school defenders on this message board. ( sarc)
We had the Polaroid Swinger and a 8-cent first-class postage.
Also, I think here in Utah, the teens were charged with misdemeanors for lewdness (BUT, I don’t think any of the pictures were posted on the web or sent to an adult).
Kids don’t seem to care that many copies of these pics are kept in a variety of places. When they get to be adults, stuff like this will bite them.
Internet has made access to this kind of stuff just so easy. It is hard to believe just how many girls are willing to put themselves on tape doing this kind of stuff.
This is the post-Clinton generation. Their formative years were spent hearing about how sexual escapades are perfectly “normal”
“but if a 16 going on 25 Britney Spears wannabe”
What about 15 years old?
Prosecutors taking action against teens accused of distributing porn
"The facts of these cases fit the felonies. We just determined we wanted to handle most of them at the misdemeanor level and try to make it fit there, because we felt that was the most appropriate for the ages of the children that we are dealing with," Rawlings said.
Prosecutors say the meetings have gone very well, with good cooperation from students, many of whom had no idea it was illegal.
The Davis County Attorney's Office could file charges against a handful of students who would then face second- and third-degree felony charges for manufacturing and distributing child pornography.
"Some of the differences can be factual: Was the person they sent it to over 14 or under 14? What was the nature of their involvement? What was the level of their conduct? What did it depict?" Rawlings said. "Some of these were merely photos. Some were actually memorializing sex acts taking place."
This also brings up another question. Should schools prohibit cell phones with image or video transfer capability? Apparently, in the Farmington case, some pictures were taken of kids changing in the locker room (victims were NOT willing accomplices).
See post#22 for how it was handled in Utah. It depended on involvement. I don’t think just receiving the photos is going to land your kid in the hot seat - it depends what they do with it. A few kids made their parents and law enforcement aware of the problem - they were not prosecuted. If they would’ve been quiet about it and forwarded the images on, then they would have been in trouble.
Ten years after Bill Clinton’s sexual escapades and his wife’s implicit approval, do these kids think of the Clinton’s attitude about sex when they’re doing this?
No.
Did the Clinton’s attitude about sex help usher in these strange, strange sexual days?
Yes.
I will say it without hesitation: The Clintons will rot in hell for what they brought upon this country.
Davis County Deputy District Attorney Ron Dunn says some of the more serious cases possibly involve blackmail. "In that case we have a clear victim of an exploitive act; and in those situations, we're definitely looking at a felony," he said.
In order to “not judge” Clinton’s behavior, the left, the media, and the educational community have destroyed any sense of right and wrong when it comes to sexual matters.
Not sure that this is the only impetus, but it was a reason to further their agenda.
Think about it - there is no issue other than those related to consequence-free sexual activity in which “liberals” (rootword: liberty?) actually side with individual freedom.
Man, I picked the wrong time to be a teenager.
They spent their formative years being told that stuff like this doesn't even have anything to do with sex.
Come to think of it, we had some of those too, but that was later on, when there was more to photograph. :)
It would be a good idea to block picture and video messaging from you child's phone.
Good idea.
Yes.
Everybody was having sex with everybody when I went to high school during the Reagan years. Can't really blame this on Clinton. I'd say the internet is the number one factor in the normalization of pornography. Had Clinton's sex scandals never happened, we'd still be where we are today.
Can a child be guilty of child porn?
I don't think such phones even exist anymore.
LOL
I saw Radar O'Reilly doing that on an episode of M*A*S*H.
There has always been something throughout history, that makes people think we are in the end times.
In message #13 I didn't say that it was.
It's just that parents make great sacrifices so that they can live in areas with “good” schools. Westerville is definitely an area that a parent would expect to find a “good” government school. I lived in the town for 2 years and my 9 year old son attended the local elementary school.
Yet...Have you noticed? It seems that there are far more school outrage stories from schools from areas that are middle to upper middle class.
I think parents who think that these things are not happening in their child's school are deluding themselves.
See, this is what happens because kids believed old Slick Willie when he said “I did not have ‘sex’ with that woman.” They don’t consider oral sex as sex and now they don’t consider porn as porn.
What’s next: sending a cellphone image of new boy/girlfriend and self having nonsex after you break up?
Yes. This has been successfully prosecuted.
There was a case in the last few months where two minors were charged with producing and distributing child pornography. The were boyfriend and girlfriend taking and emailing naked photos to each other. One of the parents found out about it and called the police to teach their child a lesson. The parents were a little shocked when the prosecution brought these children up on felony sex offenses. Oops! Lesson learned!
The story is around here somewhere. I'll try and find a link.
Animal House and Porky's are anachronisms. The world has moved beyond them.
Well--one of these days one of us is going to be right--LOL!
I’m gonna swerve into the ditch here.A lot of times we work at high schools , the girls do not dress or act like they did when I was in school 20+ years ago.They DO not even look like the girls who graduated and came back the next year to visit. the sexualization is so overt it is mind boggling that their parents have let things get this way.
It is like a horde of Britney Spears or Paris Hiltons.In the Midwest, a woman I dated niece came to live with her for a while.She would act normal around us, but if the her phone rang it was Little Kim or Queen Latifah was being channeled through this blond hair, blue eyed 16 year old!
The” Bitch” word was both a noun , verb and adjective.
And interchangeably with insult and affection.
I'm sure that some adult parent whose name is on a cellphone account used to transmit/receive those under-age nudie pics will end up in jail over this question.
10 or so years ago when I had a 15 year old foster child, kids were emailing each other topless pictures in chat rooms.
Don’t ask how I found out.
And secondly, the notes these girls passed to one another where XXX, and that’s saying a lot, coming from me! Most of my job was trying very hard to keep her from finding way to get pregnant.
They still exist. Now, they also have phones that limit calls to certain numbers. The phones can only make calls to parents’ cell phones, the home phone and 911. These are, typically, marketed as phones for children for those who don’t want to give their kid a feature rich phone and want to limit their child’s talk time when in school etc. (basically, it is intended as strictly an emergency and family phone).
In this issue, I certainly hope no one is right...but then again, there ain’t much we can do about it.
Watch your daughters around this one. At the tender age of 18 this one already knows that girls are much dirtier than boys. He's gonna be a predator.
I guess they would also have to ban cameras and internet access.
Perhaps. However, what do you do when the pornographer is the subject, director, producer, and distributer?
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