what to do? weird question..but ya

[wafflehammer]

Okay. So you people know the newest craze now: Texting nude pics of people at school. Well, my school is overrun with it. Instead of dealing with the kids my county board of education came in today and let people come in so they could remove the pics. They said they don't want anyone in trouble and of course they don't want in the news.

I think this is horribly wrong. For one I don't think the people should get away with this since it's a felony. Secondly it makes me extremely mad because I've been called out and threatened to be suspended for hugging my girlfriend in the hallway. UHMMM k...hugging girlfriend is more severe than child porn...good logic there.

So I'm wondering, in a time like this who could I contact? I'd say the police but I overheard one of the people say that if your phone wasn't deleted today you could take it to the local state police to get it deleted...Which is even worse :\

help...please

 

[Harper]

Teens send nude pics to one other, face kiddie porn charges - Ars Technica

Teens send nude pics to one other, face kiddie porn charges

There are a number of reasons to think twice (or three times, or four times, or fifty times) before sending a nude photo of yourself to someone electronically. But, if you're under the age of 18, there's at least one big, glaring, serious reason: you and the recipient could be charged with trafficking child pornography. If you think this sounds crazy, it is exactly what happened in Greensburg, Pennsylvania after two teenage girls send nude photos to some teenage boys.

Two girls from Greensburg, who police say are "14 or 15" years old, allegedly sent nude photos to two boys who are slightly older than them (16 or 17) using their cell phones. The photos were discovered in October after one of the youngsters was caught using a cell phone during school hours—a violation of school rules—and had the phone taken away. The photos were discovered at that time—I didn't know teachers could go snooping through your cell phone, either—and turned over to police.

"It was a self portrait taken of a juvenile female taking pictures of her body, nude," Greensburg Police Department captain George Seranko told WPXI News. "Taking nude pictures of yourself, nothing good can come out of it."

This might seem like a one-off story, but last month, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy released survey results that said 20 percent of all teens have sent a nude photo of themselves to someone else electronically. More than two thirds of those who have sent photos claim they sent them to a boyfriend or girlfriend, but 15 percent say they have sent them to people they only "know" from the Internet. And they're not staying private, either—a quarter of teen girls and a third of teen boys said that they've had nude images originally meant for someone else shared with them.

Though the discovery was made several months ago, the Greensburg Police Department apparently decided to arrest and charge the teenagers this week. According to the police, the two girls are being charged with manufacturing, disseminating, or possessing child pornography, while the two boys are being charged with possession of child porn.

We'll have to wait and see whether anything actually comes of this case—like cases involving underage sex and statutory rape, there's a huge and inconsistent gray area when it comes to teens dealing with other teens. One thing's for sure, though; the students at the kids' high school will probably be scared straight about sending nude photos to each other—at least until the end of the school year.

I had to laugh at the irony on this. However is another sad example of how much a nanny state society that the legal system and child protection laws are going into.

However in the eyes of the law : CP is still CP, even when it a nude picture of yourself in your teenages years when you are sending it over to your teenaged bf/gf. And the problem is that kids are growing up so quickly these days.

The problem is that it means that we are going to have a lot of kids that are going to be putting themsevles down on a sexual offender's list. And there only crime is teenaged horniness.

 

[wafflehammer]

I sent a crime tip to the FBI. I doubt it'll go far...but I hope.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

The same thing that happened at your school happened at another one, but on a smaller scale, involved only one girl, and her b/f sending her pic to all the whores of that school... The abuse towards her got so bad that she ended up killing her self. Was an article about it on the MSN home page today, and the police wont do anything, the school it self wouldn't even do anything where the female in question was 18.

 

[wafflehammer]

I seen that.

Well..one kid had 123 pics, and even brought in his laptop for them to clear it. I'm so extremely frustrated now because of all of this I hate my state, I hate my county...I hate how people get away with anyway. In today's time you would get in more trouble for someone trying to defend yourself against a murderer than the murderer :|

 

[Yami]

I'm so extremely frustrated now because of all of this I hate my state, I hate my county

Then move

We do this sorta thing quite often at my school, AFAIK it's perfectly legal (or at least walking-the-line legal) in the UK.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

IMO call up the media and tell them of what is going on. Because in the states, it is illegial for a school to know of child pornography and not report the issues to state police.

 

[Harper]

IMO call up the media and tell them of what is going on. Because in the states, it is illegial for a school to know of child pornography and not report the issues to state police.

Horny Teenagers, The Digital Age and The Law Don't Mix.

You got idiots like Senator Conroy have his crusade against CP and he's making is sound like it's out there in epidemic proporsions. Meanwhile you have horny teenagers living in the digital age sending nude picts to each other and total strangers. And mean if there is a break up between bf and gf, these pics find themselves up one or two of the chan boards. And once some thing is on the internet, it's extremely hard to take down.

In my day, the worst that could happen is that photo's will find themselves in a xerox machine. Now days, once it's online, it's online forever.

And then you get the law.
Teenager found with pic of teenaged lover = busted for possession of child porn
Teenaged lover cought sending nude pics of one self to teenaged sweet heard = busted for manufacture, possession and distribution of child porn.

Could you imagine was is going to happen in about 10 years times when they leave home. Here you are going to be at home and you get a knock at the door. You answer the door and there is a 25 year old standing there telling you that he's just moved into the neighbourhood and the law requires him to tell you that he's sex offender. And his only crime that that he could not keep his camera phone and ***** in his pance when he was teenager.

In all honesty, I think educating the kids some lessions in responsibilities and consequences in regards to the digital age. I might make them think twice before they take a nude pic of themselves and hit the send button.

 

[saltynay]

Then move

We do this sorta thing quite often at my school, AFAIK it's perfectly legal (or at least walking-the-line legal) in the UK.

wtf? It has never been legal for child porn in any sense however most schools/colleges keep it under wraps because it would give them a bad reputation.

 

[wafflehammer]

IMO call up the media and tell them of what is going on. Because in the states, it is illegial for a school to know of child pornography and not report the issues to state police.

yea but the state police is in on it too.

there are reasons the board is staying out of the news. I can't get into that though.

Anyway...so far, i've contacted a news thing and sent a crime tip to the FBI