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.

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In keeping with the pink floyd medley

[Anonymous Coward]

How can you eat any pudding if you don't beat your meat...

Re:Makes sense

[Anonymous Coward]

Boy sends a naked picture to a girl, gets a record. She then sends the picture to host of other people with the clear intent to hurt the boy, but that's fine. How was he distributing the picture and she wasn't? That's just... exactly how the world works. Carry on.

Well to punish the girl might dissuade her from working in technology. We can't have that now can we?

Re:Won't someone think of hurting the children??

[Intrepid imaginaut]

I'm pretty sure that a fourteen year old boy should know it isn't appropriate to send naked pictures of himself to others.

Are you taking the piss?

Re:Won't someone think of hurting the children??

[Intrepid imaginaut]

I don't know about these days, but when I was fourteen, we were supposed to be adults.

Really, you grew up in the 19th century?

our PARENTS would have insisted that they press charges, just to show that life has consequences.

Oh I see, you grew up in a Stazi gulag, that explains a lot.

Re: Won't someone think of hurting the children??

[ncc74656]

Destroy one pour encourager les autres.

FTFY. :-|