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ACLU Sues Penn Prosecutor For Empty Threat of Child Porn
TechDirt is reporting that the ACLU has stepped in on behalf of several teens facing the threat of child pornography charges in Pennsylvania for sharing nude pics of themselves. Unfortunately for a girl in New Jersey, she is facing much more than just a threat, as she was arrested yesterday for posting almost 30 explicit pictures of herself on MySpace for her boyfriend to see. "...the ACLU has sued the prosecutor on the girls' behalf, saying he shouldn't have threatened them with baseless charges — which haven't yet been filed — if they wouldn't agree to probation and a counseling program. The prosecutor says he was being 'proactive' in offering them a choice, but the ACLU says he shouldn't be using 'heavy artillery' to make the threats. As its attorney points out, teaching kids that this sort of behavior can bring all sorts of unwanted and unforeseen ramifications is a good idea, but threatening them with child-porn charges isn't the best way to do it."
Pics or it didn't happen.
What kind of world do we live in when the children won't think of the children?!
Only today can someone be sent to jail and put on a sex offender's registry for sexually abusing themselves
I'm glad they couldn't charge me when I was a kid for sexually abusing myself.......I did it quite often.
Probably like they just wasted an hour and a half of their lives they will never get back. But I suppose that's most people.
Well, as you know, sex offenders are very likely to reoffend. Sex offenders who offend against children are extremely dangerous today. This prosecuror is doing his part to change that.
By making these girls sex offenders abusing themselves, well... soon they will be too old to reoffend! Thus drastically lowering the recidivism rate for sex offenders!
Don't you think it would be great if we could lower the number of sex offenders who reoffend later? Shit, measures like this could result in a 90% drop in reoffence rates!
-Steve
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
Might? I molest myself on a regular basis!
In the (paraphrased) words of Lewis Black...
"This issue is right up there with the question of, 'Are we eating too much garlic as a people?'."
FATMOUSE + YOU = FATMOUSE
And not just this one, ANY article could contain image of 14y/o naked or partially/fully clothed! that's it from now on I'm not reading any articles, its the only way to be sure!
IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
Or the reflexive criticism of the screamer of "groupthink", of which the parent is an example.
Or the reflexive criticism of the criticizer of the screamer of "groupthink", of which this comment is an example.
Or...
[stack overflow]
Dickhead Attorney
-1, Redundant
If they aren't going to be flexible on this then the public needs clear guidelines:
adult takes photos of a nude minor - illegal
nude adult takes photos of a nude minor - more illegal
adult takes photos of nude adult - sexy
minor takes photos of a nude minor - illegal
minor takes photos of nude self - illegal
nude minor takes photos of adult - ?
nude minor takes photos of nude adult - ?
parent takes photos of nude infant - generally legal
infant takes photos of nude parent - probably funny
stranger takes photos of nude infant - OK only if it's Ann Geddes
traffic camera, security camera, sporting event camera crew takes photos of nude minor streaking - ?
adult makes drawing of nude minor - probably from Japan
So we have a few spots that need clarification.
If you didn't come to party don't bother knocking on my door. Prince '1999'