Posted on 06/22/2008 8:23:29 PM PDT by Coleus
• Anyone who takes pornographic photos or videos of a child under the age of 16 can be charged with creation of child pornography. It carries up to 10 years in prison.
• If the creator is a parent, teacher or other adult with supervisory authority over the child, creation of child porn becomes a first-degree offense that carries up to 20 years in prison.
• Anyone who distributes such images can be charged with distribution of child pornography. E-mailing images to friends is also distribution of child pornography. It carries up to 10 years in prison.
• Anyone who possesses pornographic images can be charged with possession of child pornography, which carries up to 18 months in prison.
• It is also illegal for children to distribute nude photos of themselves or one another, but prosecutors are unlikely to bring charges. For example: If a 13-year-old girl asks her 13-year-old friend to pose nude or engage in sexual acts, takes pictures and e-mails them to another friend, it is technically a crime but most likely won’t result in charges. Or a 13-year-old child who takes photos of himself or herself while engaging in sexual acts and e-mails them to friends.
Coleus, you gotta stop reading The Record! You are turning this into “Be even more ashamed of New Jersey Night” on Free Republic!
“How will your children become socialized?”-—Question often asked homeschoolers-—It’s supposed to be a real stumper.
Too bad finding out is so much work - you could be a real parent then...
My Grandmother got married when she was 14.
That’s a very young grandmother!
WTF?
I have a 9 year old. My wife has been on me to get him a cell phone which I refuse. I think when the time comes for him to get one, I hope the basic cell phones are still around where there is no camera and no means to do photography. I don’t want that cr@p coming through my phones or home network.
Much ado about nothing....
I don’t know if those older phones would have the right technology to work on today’s networks. I still have an old phone in my drawer with no camera, but I don’t know what battery life would be like if I wanted to get it connected with a plan.
yeah, because what the heck....the girls will have big careers at Hooters in a few years so what do they need modesty or morality for....
waste of time......./sarcasm/
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I would be curious how wide spread this is..I think there is always going to be a more “adventuresome” , risk taking & group with less moral conscious at any school. Sometimes it will reflect what goes on in the home (or lack of supervision) but other times it will be kids in rebellion.
I have had friends with several kids & in the same family some are great, clean cut & others wild hellions. Parenting alone isnt the only variable.
When I was growing up in the dark ages, the students were risque to smoke & cuss a bit.. of course there was always the sexual activity but it was not normally something one bragged about. There were the steady couples & the virgin seeking studs, who normally could find agreeable partners in the virgins or the “loose girls” of the school. Most of us didn’t approve of the sexual activity but felt it more “okay” for the committed couples than the other group.
I think parents who are buying cell phones for their minor children should consider the ones without the camera or video features and not get them ones that connect to the Internet. After all, the rationale for getting one is convenience and safety, such as calling to ask for a ride home or if a child walking feels threatened by a stranger.
Internet use should be at home under some supervision by a parent.
How did we get through high school without a cell phone?
Frankly, we give our kids too much.
There’s a good case to be made that cell phones should not be allowed on school campuses.
Thankfully, in this case the prosecutor is saying to delete the pictures, don't do it again, and no one gets arrested. Good. As they said, the laws are for pedophiles and exploiters, etc, not for high-school kids.
I think the parents in this should really think about what they're evidently not teaching their kids here. My daughter knows what can happen. I showed her pictures I heard about that were passed around the local high school that a girl (18) had taken of herself. She got the drift of that real quick, especially when I showed her the child porn laws and how some prosecutors were interpreting them. Unfortunately, too many parents think the best thing to tell their kids about stuff like this is nothing, or "Don't", which to a teenager is like waving a red flag in front of a bull.
Of course, it helps if you don't get them camera phones. My daughters (14,12) have cell phones, but there's no camera, no frills, and they're pay-as-you-go phones. I intentionally didn't get them a phone with hundreds of minutes a month. They know if they overuse them, they won't have them available when they need them, so they use them for important things, not texting to their friends in class. They tend to use them to call us if they need picked up from school, or they got back from a field trip or band trip, and other communication needs.
Exactly. I work in IT, and my kids know that if they get off the reservation, Dad will know where they've been. They do pretty well. Do I watch over their shoulders? No. Do I keep an eye on things? Yes.
My step-grandmother married at 13. This was not uncommon for girls in rural regions not too long ago.
We can talk all day long about morality but until recently, people were considered adults at puberty. Of course, if the girls didn't die during childbirth, they and their husbands could look forward to reaching the ripe old age of 35.
When hormones are raging, it's hard to expect someone to wait 10-15 years until they are finished with college and established in their careers.
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