So you are saying that these girls should be prosecuted to keep them from "exploiting and victimizing" themselves?
As I noted in another post, by that logic, every teen-aged boy in America could be prosecuted for child molestation for "molesting" himself.
Teens can be predators and violent thugs too. We try teens as adults all of the time.
For "preying" on themselves and for punching themselves in their own face? We are talking about girls that took photos "of themselves".
Some common sense is in order here.
There are boys who like to rack up notches on their bedpost with different girls. It isn’t always about love.
Yes, that's the way it has been since time immemorial but that is irrelevant to the issue of girls being prosecuted for taking photos "OF THEMSELVES".
If it is against the law for ANY nude photo to be sent across the phone network then, yes, they committed a crime by sending a nude photo over the phone network.
If the "crime" is a crime solely because of the age involved EVEN IF THE ACT IS UPON ONE'S OWN PERSON, then America's teenagers would be guilty of child molestation every time one of them masturbates or when they decide to get naked with each other in the privacy of their own home while the parents are away.
Such conduct by the teen-aged girl next door is an issue for her parents to deal with. It is none of my business and it shouldn't be any of the Government's business either.
By prosecuting these girls, having the case plastered all over the newspapers and the Internet and having these photos viewed by multiple "investigators", it is the Government that is "exploiting and victimizing" these girls.
It is a crime to produce and distribute child pornography. No matter who does it.
In cases like this the DA needs to use common sense, and I believe he is.
But to actually write a statute that de-criminalizes the act if done by minors would open up loopholes for real pornographers to exploit.
The ones who are sending 6 minutes clips of themselves doing that have crossed a line between "self" and producer.
Yes, that's the way it has been since time immemorial
They used to be they would be prosecuted for statutory rape to limit the number of girls they slept with but attitudes like yours did away with such prosecutions.
Perhaps when they appear in court and a panel of 12 strangers plus a judge and their parents view the images, they will realize that they did have a transgression and a lapse in judgement.
There were minors who stripped and engaged in sex on camera for the "Girls Gone Wild" bottomfeeder (who is a free man).
I guess we just have to accept that is the culture today, right? If they want to do it (consent), let them? Who are we to judge.