Something similar happened to a girl I knew at 12. Back in the 80s she took a few shots for her b/f on their dad’s polaroid. It got out..ultimate embarrassment for her. However it was no reason to send her to jail and put her on the sex offenders list.
Then 2011 arrived. Govt says, “we put you on the sex offender’s list to protect you”.
But what the hell, cops dont have to pay for it. And they need these sexting offenders to keep their jobs. Go after terrorists?? Why do that when you can play fish in a barrel and arrest people for looking at dirty pictures.
*Then 2011 arrived. Govt says, “we put you on the sex offender’s list to protect you”.*
I’m pretty sure it was the dude who got charged in this case, not the chick.
Go after terrorists?? Why do that when you can play fish in a barrel and arrest people for looking at dirty pictures.
I’m no friend of the “pornography industry” — but I tend to agree with you. This isn’t about protecting kids. How do you protect them by putting them on a sex offenders list for life? It has quite the opposite effect.
And even “good kids” do DUMB things. It’s the NATURE of being a teenager! Especially in the day in which we live. The “shame” will be more than enough punishment for the “good kids.” If the kids aren’t good, do you really believe their pictures getting out will matter to them? NOT so much.
This kind of garbage is more about make work for police and other law enforcement agencies than it is about “helping” kids. It’s about UNION jobs. It’s easier to catch those “evil” sexters than it is Osama or Abdullah or Nassir or Muhammad before he shoots up a military base or blows up a school bus or detonates a small nuke or pops the cork on a chem or bio-weapon.