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14-Year-Old Boy Placed On Police Register After Sending Naked Picture To Classmate
Ewan Palmer reports: A teenage boy in the UK has had a crime of making and distributing indecent images recorded against him after he sent a naked picture of himself to one of his female classmates. The 14-year-old was not formally arrested after he sent the explicit image to a girl of the same age via Snapchat. The police file against the boy will now remain active for 10 years, meaning any future employer conducting an advanced Criminal Records Bureau check will be aware of the incident. However, it is not clear whether a police file was recorded for the girl who saved and shared the image. Under new legislation, if she had been over 18, the girl could have been convicted under the so called 'revenge porn' law in the UK.
So tell me, in what benighted universe are we to hold them responsible for their sexual foibles
In the same universe where we don't just pat them on the head and say "isn't that sweet" when they do other illegal things that they should know are wrong. I'm sorry, but fourteen year olds are not "children" by every definition, they are old enough to know that some things are not appropriate. And this one demonstrated that he knew it was wrong because he used a service that was designed to delete the image. If it wasn't wrong, why shouldn't she be allowed to keep that image of him?
And sign in if you want a response next time, Obfuscant.
I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. You didn't respond to me, you responded to someone else. If you wanted to respond to me, you could have. There's a "reply" option on every message I post.
A fourteen year old is a child by every definition of the word.
No, you are thinking of "minor", and confusing legal technicality with reality, or euphamisitic uses of the word "adult".
child
noun a young human being below the age of puberty
Most 14 year old boys are past puberty, and so biological adults. Mental maturity takes another 20 years or so.