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Teens Prosecuted For Racy Photos
An anonymous reader writes with a story on CNet about two teens who were prosecuted under anti-child-porn laws in Florida for having made and emailed racy photos of each other. Both were under 18 years old, so the resulting pictures are clearly illegal; but the teens' intent was not to share the pictures with anyone else. An appeals court majority opinion found that emailing the photos from one of the kids to the other was a careless act that should, it seems, bring down the full weight of the law. A minority opinion argued that the laws were intended to protect children from exploitative adults, not from other children.
Sorry, that's all I've got.
"I don't know what these kids did to piss the prosecution and the court off, but there is clearly malicious intent here."
uhhh.. what they did was break the law.
The only evidence you have put forward of malice was they fact that the law was enforced. Are you proposing that laws should be selectively enforced on an adhoc basis?
Why aren't you pointing the finger at the public and at the legislature for writing such draconian and tyranical laws.
These kids clearly broke the law. Malice is when the prosecution attempts to prosecute for some justification OTHER than enforcing the law. It isn't malice to lock up these child child-pornographers; its the LAW.
No one has a right to their *own* opinion. They have a right to the TRUTH.
It makes perfect sense. They are minors, as far as child porn is considered. They are responsible for producing that child porn. The fact that they believed they were above the laws just because of their ages, or the fact that they wrongly believed noone would find out, doesn't change anything.
They thought they knew what they were doing. They did not. They should face the consequences, and others should learn from their mistakes, and wait until they are 18 before emailing nude pictures of themselves anywhere.
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I didn't think I'd have to explain the hyperbole in my original post, but I guess there are some pretty literal-minded (which is a polite way to say "stupid") people around here. I guess I once again overestimated the intellect of the people who read this site (or maybe just the Anonymous Cowards).
I will continue to overestimate your intelligence out of sheer generosity, being somewhat moved by the teachings of Christ.
You are welcome on my lawn.