Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Teens Prosecuted For Racy Photos

Posted by kdawson on from the protecting-from-whom? dept.

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.

9 of 740 comments (clear)

  1. Florida Age of Consent by Catmeat · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to the Wikipedia article on age of consent in North America - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_No rth_America two 17 year-olds in Florida can legally have sex. It's just they can't take and send dirty pictures to each other.

  2. Stupidly arresting cihldren, since 2004 by thehossman · · Score: 5, Informative

    This certianly isn't the first time...

    http://www.lies.com/wp/2004/03/30/teen-arrested-fo r-sexually-abusing-herself/

    --
    -- The Hoss Man
  3. Re:So then... by squarefish · · Score: 4, Informative

    there's a 17 yo kid in GA that recently got a mandatory 10 year sentence for receiving a blowjob from a 15 yo girl.
    if he'd fucked her, it would only be a 1 year. he was having a party with friends and a girl he'd never seen before walked into their hotel room and started blowing him- he didn't ask for an id, but he did break the state's anti-sodomy law regarding teens and he will be labeled as a sex offender for the rest of his life. too many links to provide- just google Genarlow Wilson

    --
    Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
  4. Re:Jesus by penix1 · · Score: 4, Informative

    It goes far beyond that. Remember, these kids not only have a criminal record but by law they must register as sex offenders and be tracked the rest of their lives. Publicly humiliated by having that tracking posted to the Internet and never get a job because of it especially if that job is anywhere near other kids...

    It does raise an interesting quandary though. Now that they are sex offenders, does that mean they are restricted from going to school?

    B.

    --
    This is a sig. This is only a sig. Had this been an actual sig you would have been informed where to tune for more sigs.
  5. Re:So then... by dubl-u · · Score: 3, Informative

    there's a 17 yo kid in GA that recently got a mandatory 10 year sentence for receiving a blowjob from a 15 yo girl.

    I think you're talking about Genarlow Wilson. IMHO, he got completely shafted. There's a great article about him. Were I in the DA's district, I'd be rounding up an impeachment petition right now. It's a fucking travesty.

  6. I don't think you fully realize the consequences. by StarKruzr · · Score: 3, Informative

    They violated CHILD PORN laws. Now they have to register as sex offenders.

    Stop and THINK. Does this make ANY SENSE whatsoever? They have to be labeled sex offenders for the rest of their lives because they were emailing EACH OTHER dirty pictures?

    --

    +++ATH0
  7. Read some history if you're interested.. by Cryptnotic · · Score: 4, Informative

    First of all, the U.S. was not founded by Puritans. If I recall correctly, the Puritans were pacifists and believed in creating a pure religious society. The founding fathers of the United States rejected the idea of official state religion (though they may have been religious themselves) and they were certainly not pacifists when they organized a military secession from England.

    As for colonization, that wasn't the American way, it was the European way. The English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and Russians all took colonies in the Americas.

    --
    My other first post is car post.
    1. Re:Read some history if you're interested.. by bogjobber · · Score: 4, Informative
      If I recall correctly, the Puritans were pacifists and believed in creating a pure religious society.

      You're thinking of the Quakers. The Puritans were very religious, but were in general much crazier than the Quakers (as in Salem witch trial crazy).

      As for colonization, that wasn't the American way, it was the European way.

      Try telling that to the Native Americans, Spanish, Mexicans, Cubans, Filipinos, native Hawaiians, Hondurans, Guatemalans, Costa Ricans, and Panamanians/Colombians. Sure it isn't colonialism in the same way or on the same scale of the Europeans, but we've definitely set up colonies (both actual and "neo-colonies").

      Note that I'm not necessarily criticizing all of those situations, or agreeing with the GP poster. But you have to at least acknowledge historical fact. Just because we don't call everything outside of the original 13 states colonies does not change the fact that that is what they originally were.

  8. Re:Jesus by ozborn · · Score: 4, Informative

    The teenage pregnancy problem is because of lack of sex education.
    Considering that teenage sex and pregancy was the norm for most of human history I'd say the problem has more to do with society being unable to turn teenagers into financially viable and independent adults until long after they are sexually mature.