http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_facto...teen_with_sex_crimes_for_taking_a_selfie.html I agree 14 is too young but why criminalize a young girl for life for taking a selfie? Apparently, the girl liked a boy in her class so she took two pictures of herself and sent them to the boy. The first was her in a sports bra and boy shorts while the second she took the bra off but covered her breasts with her hair. My first reaaction is these are standard magazine photos but her parents need to talk to her about when such things are appropriate. A prosecutor in Iowa wants to charge her with sexually exploiting a minor, meaning herself, for taking the two selfies. That just seems way over the top as most kids take selfies these days.
That's what you get when you allow zero tolerance policies. You either accept a few casualties like this in the name of keeping those degenerates out of society or you look weak. If you look weak you lose everything, because your lowest common denominator is ignorant and scared.
Meanwhile 60 year old rich pedos sending child porn pics around the world are hiring top-dollar lawyers to get them short sentences in minimum security prisons.
Yeah, I'm not sure how you can exploit yourself. By that standard, every teenager who masturbates is a child molester.
I read about this elsewhere. I believe the basis of the parents' lawsuit is that the images in question aren't pornographic because they show the same or less than a swimsuit pic would show. The prosecutor is a moron and should be removed from office.
And probably up for election, so he's hoping to use this case to show the voters he's "tough on crime."
Selfies should carry severe criminal penalties. Regardless of how clothed one is. Only weirdo loners take selfies, and are thus most likely serial killers.
Where's that pic of Nathan Fillion trying a rebuttal then realizing he doesn't have one? That's how I'm feeling since I can't articulate my rebuttal
In this age of sue or be sued, I'd probably go the legal offencive too. The parent owns the device, not the boy, so when a 14y/o girl sexts the cute boy the parent is the one who's legaly in possession of the picture. I'm not taking the fall. The dangers of sexting go both ways.
What's with Dinner and threads about sexual stuff involving minors? That's at least two in recent memory. That brain tumour that made him racist must be getting bigger.
