Comments on: Sweet “Sext”teen: When Child Pornography Victims Become Defendants

By: Skumanick's Unemployed

Skumanick's Unemployed — Tue, 25 May 2010 04:39:39 +0000

And now the student is suing the school and the county who employed the prosecutor. This should end well.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:38:26 +0000

and today, this op/ed from the NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/opinion/25thur2.html

as students use more — and more elaborate — forms of technology, school officials will need to do a better job of upholding decorum without creating felony prosecutions out of misbehavior that should be handled by parents.

By: steve

steve — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:17:42 +0000

an update: the Third Circuit slapped down this prosecution. The ruling essentially says that the fact an underage person appears in a photograph is not enough to charge that person with possession or distribution of kiddie pr0n.

see here for more:
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/03/18/third-circuit-bans-sexting-prosecution-against-minors/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wsj%2Flaw%2Ffeed+%28WSJ.com%3A+Law+Blog%29

By: mike tyson

mike tyson — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:00:39 +0000

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By: Antonio

Antonio — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:23:27 +0000

Sometimes the law or the school system is not fair. A student at my daughter’s school was suspend ed and might get kick out of school because a 19 year old sent her a picture of his private part. She is only 17 and she is the one getting into trouble because the assistant principal found her phone in the parking lot and went through every picture and text message on her phone. The girl never forwarded the picture and never said anything to anyone since it was sent to her late the night before. And I ask myself, didnt the assistant principal invade her privacy? Why the 19 year old is not getting into trouble for sending sexualy explicit pictures to a minor? Why is the school taking it out on her when she did not ask for the picture and was not using the phone during school hours or inside the school? Why is the school district letting this happen? I hope everything turns out ok for her. She is an exemplary student and has never been in trouble. Is there a law to protect the victim (in this case the 17 year old girl) instead of protecting the adult who sent the picture? and finally, Could they press charges against the assistant principal for ruining the young girl’s reputation. I mean, how hard it is to find a phone number in a cell phone and calling the owner?

By: Lynne Walker

Lynne Walker — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:24:45 +0000

This is a status crime based on the ages of the participants. It is legal for an adult to send sexually-explicit pictures to another adult when all parties concerned have given their consent to the the creation and dissemination of the material. We are going to have to write laws specific to the ages of the participants if we wish to prosecute them for behavior that is legal for those over the age of 18, just as we have laws regarding the consumption of alcohol or cigarettes that are age-specific. More laws…more lawyers…sigh…

By: Christian Amuta

Christian Amuta — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:55:06 +0000

I strongly believe that there is need for parents to properly watch over their kids everytime and ensure that they discuss the affairs of their children with their kids, find out who they play with, who discusses with them, who offers gifts to them, what their kids are doing or planing to do, and whom their friends are. Kids learn very fastly and bad influences are big jeoperdy to the moral standard of growing kids.

Also international organizations need to play a very important role in checking that excesses of child ponography on the internet.

All governments of the world should should enact laws that will penalize any website hosters from their countries that allows the hosting of child ponography via their sites or ISP.

Strick penalties should also be imposed on producers of child ponography websites.

Everybody should know that children are the hope of our tomorrow, and if they can not be granted proper protection now, that means that future will not be properly protected.

I strongly believe that with the implementation of these recommendations, the problem of child ponography will be reduced.