Posted on 06/04/2008 7:31:38 PM PDT by abt87
HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) -- Passing notes in study hall or getting your best friend to ask a boy if he likes you or, you know, LIKES you, is so last century. Nowadays, teenagers are snapping naked pictures of themselves on their cell phones and sending them to their boyfriends and girlfriends.
Many of these pictures are falling into the wrong hands -- or worse, everyone's hands, via the Internet -- and leading to criminal charges.
School administrators in Santa Fe, Texas, confiscated dozens of cell phones from students in May after nude photos of two junior high girls began circulating. The girls had sent the photos to their boyfriends, who forwarded them to others, officials said.
Some boys are photographing themselves, too. In Utah, a 16-year-old boy was charged with a felony for sending nude photos of himself over a cell phone to several girls. Four middle school students -- two boys and two girls -- in Daphne, Alabama, took photos of themselves on their cell phones and traded the images back and forth, authorities said.
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Like this young woman, most of the kids get it.
There is nothing to stop the prosecutor, except common sense.
Since the "War on Crime" started in the 1980's certain entities - with short-sighted and enthusiastic conservative support - have been trying to rewrite the entire legal code so that every American can potentially be charged with something (at a prosecutor's "discretion") and face that fate. It makes it easier to dispose of political troublemakers through the legal process should that become necessary. The Soviet Union did the same thing using 25-year sentences.
Critics are easily disposed of with "You're exaggerating!" or "If you aren't guilty, you don't have anything to worry about!" or "If it saves one child it's worth it!" "Atlas Shrugged" is becoming truer every day, and in this instance conservatives have no one to blame but ourselves. We have been too willing to excessively empower government rather than trusting the individual.
The last "free" cell phone I had was purposefully crippled to not allow photos to be transferred off the phone except through the "media messaging" which was 25 cents a pop. The USB cables and software for other phones were $100, so I might as well just get a $100 phone that isn't crippled.
Kind of the reason for same age sex laws, some people would want kids punished for statutory rape for sleeping with another 14 year old. No I don’t think 14 year olds should be having sex, just don’t think it’s statutory rape.
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