A missing way to deal with this is to prosecute the people taking the pictures of the under-age children - including selfies and “friends.”
If the pix are illegal, why isn’t this done?
Am I missing something here?
Sometimes this happens. Other times, it is considered a little heavy-handed to charge teenagers with the production and distribution of child pornography for taking naked pictures of themselves.
If a 15 year-old girl takes a nude selfie, she has committed no crime. If she shares it with her friends, again, no crime. But if one of her friends is over 18, the 18 year-old has committed the crime of possessing child pornography. It’s kind of like the new California law that says that underage prostitutes are committing no crime but their adult customers most assuredly are.
I think Dickens wrote, “The law is a ass”.
I thin you are missing out on how young and how stupid we are talking about here. I have had a friend have this happen with his daughter. Daughter was brought up on a farm, raised with strict parents and a very small catholic school in a small conservative town. Some how the daughter thinks its ok to take a topless selfie. Father is so upset. His mind is blown and he can’t figure it out. The girl is in 7th grade. A phone is required to pick her up. Pay phones don’t exist anymore. Kids have phones because they need to be picked up. And even the cheapest phone can take pictures.