Posted on 12/23/2017 10:00:11 AM PST by LouieFisk
A teenage girl facing criminal charges after she sent an explicit selfie through Snapchat to a classmate says she is not a criminal. “Sexting is common among teens at my school, and we shouldn’t face charges for doing it. I don’t want anyone else to go through what I’m going through,” the 14-year-old girl said in a statement released by the Minnesota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota.
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Sorry. Fingers faster than brain this AM.
When they push criminal punishments too far it is nothing but an attempt by politicians to create a permanent underclass.
Pedophiles and rapists need hanging but this is idiotic. Are they going to try to charge this girl for child pornography too?
Ah, nothing’s wrong it’s totally normal.
Why, I remember back in the early 80’s in high school we were all taking instamatic pictures of our junks and posting them on the school bulletin board.
Quit being so old!
(hopefully unneeded) /s
>Sometimes the kids have more brains that the adults.<
This conundrum is revisited from time to time, and will continue to be as long as smart phones are easily available to kids.
The problem here is the law is can't keep up with technology or the increasing availability of smart phones to kids, the very people that harsh child pornography laws are supposed to protect.
I don’t want kids doing this at that age, but it shouldn’t be a crime to send a photo of your own body.
What if she sent this photo to your teenage son? Let's presume you son's phone and computing devices were purchased by you and registered to you? You are now in possession of child pornography.
It's really a mess, trying to deal with this stuff, and any politician who tries to write some common sense into the laws will be branded a friend of child pornographers.
I was in a photography class in high school during the mid 80s.
Kids were taking naked photos of each other and developing them in the privacy of the school's dark room.
Only the technology has changed.
“Sorry. Fingers faster than brain this AM.”
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The Saturday morn before a long holiday weekend is always like that! Brain starts hitting on all six sometime in the late afternoon.
Dang, you musta hung out with the cool kids. Wait, the kids in photo clubs were the cool kids? Wow....never woulda thought. ;)
“Where the hell are this girl’s parents?”
Leftist depraved schools are the parents now. These kids are the brainwashed morons the schools want to produce and they are proud of their future democrat Borg Cube drones. Actual parents are marginalized so the schools can create thier future army of SJW LGBT snowflake drones. This girl is the shining product of the liberal “Utopia”.
In this case, the law is an “Ass”.
“Remember the good old days when guys had to be ingenious to see girls’ privates”
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And when scoring a Playboy - with the centerfold still attached - was a big deal?
“It pains me to agree with the ACLU, but I must say
charging a 14 year old girl with a felony and requiring her to register as a sex offender for 10 years for sending an explicit selfie seems to be way over the top. Her parents should be able if willing to handle the discipline in this case.”
I give...just exactly what is the crime here? Why it is whatever some horseshit politician says is a crime. None of their damn business. After the creeps and pervs in law enforcement get done with their ogling maybe they will let her skate. Just a terrible thing to do a young girl for such a frivolous act.
Ground her for five years.
Agreed 100%.
I agree with your observations, especially the following:
“The problem here is the law is can’t keep up with technology or the increasing availability of smart phones to kids, the very people that harsh child pornography laws are supposed to protect.”
GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION IN every aspect of life is just what we need.
Need more watchers to make sure we behave.
If we didn’t have watchers, the watchers would be on border patrol duty.
Please, can we pass on the guilty not guilty pictures. Thanx!
Good Lord. Fourteen year old kids are sexting? Great parenting.
I agree your observations are spot on.
OMG at that age, I was guilty of , how to put this, making comparisons with other guys?
What she did is stupid, but is it really proper to criminalize stupid things kids do?
And this hopefully is a lesson to all about judgement, about sending images into cyberspace. Those images will be out there forever and will fall into the wrong hands eventually. Think that over girls before you go down that road.
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