There are two things here-the kid taking video of him having sex with a classmate and possibly showing it to friends, and the police threatening him with child-porn charges.
The kid was stupid to record it, and stupider to show it. What on earth is it with kids these days? I mean, as long as there have been boys and girls in schools, there has been the possibility and desire of sex. This is nothing new, and it is natural. But recording it? And showing it? That is just foreign to me. But I temper it by realizing young people in general, and young boys in particular, have the potential at all times to do stupid, silly, unadvisable things. This recording thing is foreign to me, but given the way things are, I can see it as just another stupid thing like shoplifting or petty vandalism.
As for the police threatening child porn charges-that is criminal and even stupider. Even a supposed honor-roll kid stupid enough to record his sex act and show it to friends is smart enough to know that would destroy his life and follow him around. Shame on them...I hope the shame of it hangs around their neck like a millstone.
“This recording thing is foreign to me...”
Yeah, but I think it’s not foreign to a generation raised broadcasting their whole lives on twitter, facebook, instagram, and snapchat. If they’re not documenting it, they probably feel like “it didn’t really happen”.
Excuse me, Kim Kardashian and a host of other celebrities that have become popular and noticed by their smut tapes.
I agree that he was stupid, but the family has a decent wrongful death suit.
Also, how shaming that they told him with his mom. That was a sudden hellish shame for him and this is what immature (all teens) people do when acute shame is all they feel.
My heart breaks.
The kid was stupid to record it, and stupider to show it.
FWIW Note that the article says they don’t know whether he showed it to anyone or not.
An assumption of yours?