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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.

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  1. Our society held hostage by dotslashdot · · Score: 1, Troll

    Soon everything we think and do will be illegal and we will all be criminals under Christian sharia law.

  2. Re:Strupod.. by Knuckles · · Score: 1, Troll

    Which idiot modded this as a troll?

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  3. They are sick evil people! by Brian+Ribbon · · Score: 0, Troll

    First they had sex without being married, then they made photographs of it! I imagine they also worship other Gods and lie about things.

    I feel so disgusted that I need to ask you all to donate to my Church which will fight for a 50,000 year sentence to protect our country from non-believers.

    Thank You,
    Manipulative Religious Idiot

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  4. Time to Serve The Country by camperslo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Since the detectives/prosecutors involved seem to be so exceptionally talented at finding evil dangers hidden from public view, I propose we send them where they're really needed - Iraq.