The boy was showing pictures of the two having sex and the girl was upset. I don’t blame the school resource officer. What the boy did was wrong for many reasons.
Then he committed suicide. It doesn’t sound like anyone’s fault but the kid’s and perhaps his upbringing. Why would he share an intimate moment with the other boys.
I wish the story had a better outcome, but the school resource officer is not the problem here.
It doesn’t sound like he was arrested. He just couldn’t handle the situation.
My view on this is not that what the kid did was right (and I agree his upbringing has to be faulty for him to film it and show it to others) it is that even the most dimwitted kid knows the seriousness of being charged with child pornography. It isn’t the same as shoplifting or spray painting a wall.
Sex offenses, particularly those involving children, will follow you for life. You will be ostracized. You will be on lists. Anywhere you go, your neighbors will know about you. Your employers will know about you. Kids today know all this, they see it on the news and the Internet constantly. Even a 16 year old kid knows what would be in store, and he obviously didn’t have the emotional maturity to know they probably weren’t going to charge him for child pornography. As far as he was concerned, his life was ending. He was a stupid, immature kid.
I make the mistake more than anyone in thinking that kids will respond to things the way adults do, which is patently wrong.
I think it was a terrible decision for an adult to even attempt that approach with a young kid. And I think they should be called to account for it.
Seems like this kid had a lot of problems that went beyond what happened in this particular case.
Well said.