>>Sure, child porn is illegal and needs to be prosecuted.
However, a 16 year old boy with a phone video of his
G-friend and him having sex certainly begs for some
legal sanctions but it won’t be prosecuted or treated
the same as a 32 year old pervert sharing pix of naked
pre-teen girls and IF that is what the resource officer
intentionally led the kid to believe then he needs some
more training.
I agree. He wouldn’t have been punished as severely as a 32 yr old man. But, he would still be branded a sex offender for life even if he only got probation, with all the restrictions that label carries.
Whether or not someone like this HS Junior is going to
be branded for life is going to depend on the laws
of that state. I’ve spent the last twenty years working
with at-risk teens at a residential Tx facility. At
times we have had kids that had been physically and
sexually abused and, in turn, have become abusers
themselves so the subject of kids and sex issues
is not foreign to me.
But, he would still be branded a sex offender for life even if he only got probation
if that is true, then the true ass in this sad tale is the law...