Charging Minors with Child Porn Options

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There have been a lot of cases of police arresting and charging teenagers/minors with possession and distribution of child pornography because they've been sending racy pictures through their phones. Authorities argue these measures are done to send a message. They are protecting kids from further harming themselves by risking their pictures getting put on the internet. So a 14 year old girl who sends her boyfriend a naked picture of herself could get arrested and charged for distributing child porn.

However, once charged, these kids have to register as a sex offender, in some places for as long as ten years. Which means, that 14 year old girl will find it a lot harder to apply for jobs and college all because she sent a photo of herself to her boyfriend and got lumped into the same category as a child molester.

Thoughts?

[*paperplane*]

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Learn the laws. Anyone under the age of 18 cannot have any sexual affiliation. Even sex under age is against the law in majority if not all states of the U.S. Your parents can either punish you over it or take it to the extreme of pressing charges. Same thing with pictures and or videos... if you're under age and you're affiliated with sex in any pictures and or videos, you broke the law.

I'm done with this discussion.

For f*ck's sake, I'm talking about the law. And under 18? That is so blatantly untrue. In most states the age of consent is under 18, usually 16. http://www.avert.org/aofconsent.htm

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For f*ck's sake, I'm talking about the law. And under 18? That is so blatantly untrue. In most states the age of consent is under 18, usually 16. http://www.avert.org/aofconsent.htm

Now that's funny. Because from what I learned in Internet Law (college) and from my lady who's a Paralegal, this contradicts the legal system. In fact the reason why (from what I was taught) that the legal age to have sex or affiliate oneself with sex is 18+ because at that age you're able to get married without the consent of the guardians.