Girl Charged With Child Porn

[Keikan]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/05/gi...ith_child_porn/

A 15 year-old American girl has been charged with child pornography offences after posting pictures of herself online.

The unnamed teenager is accused of sending photos of herself "in various states of undress and performing a variety of sexual acts" to people she met in online chat rooms, AP reports. Police found dozens of inappropriate photos when they seized the girl's PC.

The teenager has been charged with the possession and distribution of child pornography as well as the sexual abuse of children. ®

[tesco]

that last sentence is kinda dumb...

[Rat Faced]

I can see how the distribution of Child Porn works there, but if they are photo's of herself then surely she cant be charged with (and i dont know how else to put this) abusing herself..

[MagicNakor]

I believe child prostitution falls under the "sexual abuse" section of most laws, and at 15, that's what she is. A child prostitute.

[J'Pol]

Quite right, all child pornographers should be arrested and charged.

Even if it is photos of herself.

[bujub22]

Originally posted by Rat Faced@17 April 2004 - 22:06
I can see how the distribution of Child Porn works there, but if they are photo's of herself then surely she cant be charged with (and i dont know how else to put this) abusing herself..

really kinda stupid!

it's pictures of herself what wrong with givin out pictures of yourself ,even if there nude there still yours!

and child pornography well no cuz 1 she almost 18 give 3 yrs ,but at her age she had to be tought sex ed in which she either learn sex in school or at home?
which leads to who's really at blame here? the school for teaching these type of things or home for not know what she was up too!


all i like to say is i like to see the outcome to this

[clocker]

Originally posted by bujub22@20 April 2004 - 14:23

which leads to who's really at blame here? the school for teaching these type of things or home for not know what she was up too!

Let's blame Microsoft and her computer manufacturer and whoever taught her to take pictures and her ISP too, while we're at it.

God forbid this tempest in a teapot should be her fault/responsibility.

[leftism]

Thank God this "child pornographer" is going to jail.

I'm sure the world will be a much safer place now.

[J'Pol]

Originally posted by leftism@21 April 2004 - 00:00
Thank God this "child pornographer" is going to jail.

I'm sure the world will be a much safer place now.

I had always taken you to be an atheist, or at the very least agnostic.

I've said it before, one lives and learns.

On the other hand I had taken you to be one who did not support the supply of lewd photographs of 15 year olds.

I am not sure which revelation shocks me more.

I will have to take that under advisement.

[sArA]

15... hmmm... is anyone surprised? less than a year off the legal age in the UK anyway.

How many people would have had sex at 15 if they could have?

Yes, a little extreme, particularly with the video cam stuff, but I cannot see how anyone can call a 15 year old a child. A teenager, yes, a youth, an adolescent but I think of a child as pre-pubescent.

Sexual maturity and mental maturity are of course not the same, but societies both past and present have perceived one as an indicator of the other, regardless of physical age.

Please don't get me wrong. I do not think that what she did was acceptable behaviour for a teenager but...as usual, authorities do seem to go over the top with stuff.

I say, take her PC away, ground her until 16 and send for compulsory appropriateness training to learn a few skills in having a little class.