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An issue that had risen up in the media recently is that here and I believe in the USA, teens take nude photos of themselves and send them to my friends then can get charged and convicted of child porn even though they are both the perpertrator and the victim at the same time.
An issue that had risen up in the media recently is that here and I believe in the USA, teens take nude photos of themselves and send them to my friends then can get charged and convicted of child porn even though they are both the perpertrator and the victim at the same time.
Originally Posted by aidxen An issue that had risen up in the media recently is that here and I believe in the USA, teens take nude photos of themselves and send them to my friends then can get charged and convicted of child porn even though they are both the perpertrator and the victim at the same time.
An issue that had risen up in the media recently is that here and I believe in the USA, teens take nude photos of themselves and send them to my friends then can get charged and convicted of child porn even though they are both the perpertrator and the victim at the same time.
There is a difference between bad decisions, and bad intent. I think the thought of kids passing photos like this around via text is appalling, and there should be some consequence to it. However, the punishment in some of these cases just don't fit the crime. Suppose it's one girl who took a nude photo of herself and sent it to her boyfriend. I don't see the crime in that, however wrong it may be. But then the boyfriend forwards the photo to other people. There is the crime, in the distribution. I don't see how a victim, even a self made victim, can be tried as the perpetrator also. That's like trying a person with attempted murder for a suicide attempt.
There are a lot of shades of gray. For example, if a 16-year-old girl sends a nude picture to her 16- or 17-year-old boyfriend, that's not weird or icky or something. It only gets weird and icky if he starts sending it to his friends. That's disgusting. But it doesn't make the girl a criminal.
I also don't see how you can label an underage person as a pedophile for having a picture of another post-pubescent teen. That's just an odd concept to me. A 16-year-old with a picture of a nude 7-year-old is wrong, but that's just a completely different situation. Teens are sexually interested in other teens, and that's how it should be, right? They're interested in other people their age. That's normal.
For what it's worth, it should definitely be a crime for a person of ANY age to forward nude picture of someone else without consent. So I don't see why the law should be different when two teens are involved (as long as BOTH people are teens).
True story : 17 year old high school girl sends 21 year old college bf nude photos at his request (email...pre text message days). Mom has a key logger on the computer and has captured bfs email password since he logged on from there many times. The photos are discovered in the "trash can" on the home computer and girl is confronted by the mother and punished. Mother also logs on to bf's email and deletes them. Girl and bf are confused over what happened to the pics but the girl eventually breaks up with bf and is forever grateful that the photos dissapeared... but never knows it was her mother who did it.
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