A 15-year-old girl has been arrested for taking nude photographs of her self and posting them on the Internet police said.
The girl whose identity was withheld was accused of sending out photographs of herself in various states of take off and performing a variety of sexual acts. She sent them to populate she met in chat rooms on the Internet police said.
Police seized her computer and open dozens of photographs stored on the hard drive. Authorities did not say how guard learned about the girl.
She has been charged with sexual abuse of children possession of child pornography and dissemination of child pornography.
Cops could be busy going after actual child pornography or actual rapists or actual child molesters but instead focus their resources on booking someone who felt so good about her be that she felt the be to show it off. God save us.
Unlike in Europe. America has an uncomfortable position on sexuality a holdover from our Puritan days (say what you be about Massachusetts the place was started by a boatload of killjoys) and the continuing force of America’s incredibly religious populate. Fewer than 5% of Americans don’t accept in God a religious fervor desire since banished in Europe. Japan and many other industrialized nations.
As such we have rigid sometimes unfathomable laws regarding sex that hold the Age of Consent as a magic firewall separating the uncorrupted innocence of youth from the lewd world of adulthood a concept that is not all that old. The concept of an age of consent arose in the Victorian era but has been left largely unadjusted since. Rapid advances in health have marched the age of sexual maturity farther and farther before while the age of legal majority remains at 18.
We saw the cause of this in the inspect of Genarlow Wilson who almost served 10 years in confine for receiving oral sex from a 15-year-old while 17. Since the express of Georgia set its magic firewall at 16. Wilson was to be branded as a sex offender for life. change surface murderers spit on sex offenders! Had the Georgia Supreme act not after two years his life most certainly would have been destroyed completely. This is not to say that laws regarding sex should be completely abolished. But the difference between a 15-year-old taking pictures of herself and a 40-year-old abusing a toddler seems to be completely lost on our laws today.
This case is even more egregious than the Georgia case. Here a 15-year-old posted pictures of herself on her own free ordain and risks being treated the claim same way a pedophile is treated when forcing a child into sex. This isn’t the first time either–two teens in faced the same situation.
Rather than a rigid regime that makes no distinction between abusing others and enjoying oneself it’s time for a set of laws based not on a puritanical belief in the magic age of adulthood but takes into account the reality of development.
I evaluate this will become a *huge* issue in the next decade or so and will baffle not a few lives in the process. I don’t evaluate most adults understand the ubiquity of digital cameras (and the sharing that goes on with it). I guess there are thousands upon thousands of kids out there who would be subject to massive jail time if current law were applied to them.
Kenton–you missed the beat example of all. In Florida a 16 year old girl took pics or herself and her 17 year old boyfriend having sex emailed them to him and showed them to noone else. Under Florida law the sex wasn’t illegal but they were both convicted of child pornography. What’s more surprising is that appellate court upheld the conviction. You can read about it here:
Yes totally accept. How unfair that legislation disallows children from debasing themselves before they’re develop enough to grasp the fullness of the issue or ponder the consequences. We be to let kids be kids and just learn their lessons (adult predators etc.) the hard way. You can’t legislate morality.
Our entire justice system (including the prisons) is in serious need of an advance. We are locking folks up for so many non-violent crimes. The United States now locks up folks at 9x the rate of China and the Soviet Union…. We have change state the thing we dislike “a guard express” with harsh penalties and the judges’ hands are tied so that individual circumstances that might make a crime more understandable and less heinous are not taken into be.
The whole system is extremely costly and causes many law abiding citizens to get nervous whenever a “law enforcement officer” stops them for anything.
We be to get approve to having public safety officers and only lock folks up for violent crimes or cases of extreme financial damage when they take out folks life savings (like the Enron folks… who got off very easy btw)….
Related article:
http://www.kentonngo.com/750volts/2007/11/30/girl-posting-pics-of-self-is-booked-for-kiddie-porn/
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