The kids created an offensive parody. They, from what I can discern in the story, did not attempt to userp the "victim's" identity for personal gain. It was satire. Mean satire, but satire nonetheless.
The First Amendment gives Americans the right to be offensive, and in fact to offend specific people. When we start criminalizing that offense, we might as well start shredding the Constitution.
Civil suit slander/libel.
Teachers have been fired for saucy online postings.
This kid could be applying for jobs one day and getting turned down for jobs because of what prospective employers find on the internet.
Definite lawsuit material. If it were me, I’d also sue to have the web-page data and archived versions deleted.
Remember this story next time some lib wants to argue about how pop culture, the internet, rap music, and all the rest hasn’t had much impact.
These are GIRLS! It’s impossible to even imagine teenage girls of 20-30-40 years ago creating homemade porn. We are losing the culture war, I’m afraid.
You can’t fix stupid.
Throw the book at ‘em.
This has nothing to do with “free speech”.
Pornography is NOT free speech.
Obscenity is NOT free speech.
The free speech in the first amendment is *POLITICAL* free speech.
The communists promote pornography as free speech and decry political speech as hate speech.
That was *NOT* the intent of the 1st Amendment, and there are those among the Founders who would probably challenge you to a duel for saying so, were they alive today.
I might be butchering that phrase but basically free speech carries with it some responsibility. That is why we have civil proceedings for things such as slander and defamation of character and I think that kind of legal action is applicable here.
The meanest creatures on the planet are teenage girls.
Smoking Gun has the sheriff’s report posted and they were each charged with a felony count of aggravated stalking of a minor under 16.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/florida/girls-busted-phony-facebook-pages#lightbox-popup-1
Link to report:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/fake-facebook-stalking?page=0
Almost every kid or adult in the industrialized nations has more miniaturized ‘spy’ equipment available to them than the most leading edge spies in James Bond and other spy movies just twenty or so years ago. And, whatever they can produce can be put on the internet for all the world to see.
This is probably an area where some new, specific laws are needed to protect people’s privacy, and the provisions of the laws should be taught in every school from a fairly young age.