Teen Faces Child Porn Charges For Pictures Of Self

• March 31, 2004

A 15-year-old girl in Pittsburgh is facing child pornography charges after she sent sexually explicit pictures of herself to others over the internet.
From AZCentral.com:

Police in Pittsburgh haven’t released the name of the teen. Authorities charge that she sent explicit photos to people she met in online chat rooms.
According to investigators, the teenager also posted pictures of herself performing a variety of sex acts.
Police won’t say how they learned about the girl, but add they found dozens of photos stored on her computer hard drive.
She faces a number of serious charges, including possession of child pornography.

This kid doesn’t need jail time. She needs/needed parents who would explain to her why she shouldn’t be performing sex acts at age 15 and sending pictures of those acts out over the internet.
We have a tendency to blame stories like this on the amount of sex on television or the amount of sex in advertising, among other things. Perhaps those sources contribute to problems like these, but at the end of the day I can’t help but hold parents responsible. Parents are more than capable of regulating what their kids are doing with their computers.
So before we blame our decadent society for stories like these lets take a long look at who we are as parents. The government and law enforcement can’t solve problems like these. The solution has got to come from the parents.

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http://www.vigilancematters.com/ Marty

Well of course they have a “right” to their privacy, but do they really have any “expectation” of it in a sex saturated culture where almost everyone has a camera phone?

No, sex sells, and we’re buying. No suprises here… That little 15 year old girl was not engaged in child porn, she was simply acting like an adult.

What piss poor role models we are…
http://thyrium.com/ Lee

Considering that I’m 20 years old and 16 year old girls are only 4 years younger than me, I don’t see it as child porn, I’m sorry.

Just because stupid American laws say child porn is wrong doesn’t mean the rest of the world agrees.
CBD

Actually since their her pictures is it illegal??

My grandmother gave birth at 14 while working for Campbells Soup Company picking tomatoes. She went to a house had my uncle and went back to work.

At 15 I was running around nude in the woods with girls as Im a product of the 60s

 
Perhaps whoever said we’re not adults till 18 is wrong. We may hold onto long and our child protection laws will now be changed I think.

 
Meghan

Hey hold up she should not go to jail she just ether seek counsling for awhile or have her parents have a serious talk with her jail is for criminals, people who repeatedly do bad stuff and just dont learn. what she did was a mistake those are just mistakes she did not who she is.

i just got out of jail i would no stay strong see ya
http://www.vigilancematters.com/ Marty

Of course the parents are responsible here, for not teaching thier daughter proper morality, for not supervising her time on the computer, for not denying her every electronic gadget her heart desires, for not caring enough.

Then again, a 15 year old girl who knows how to post digital pictures on the internet probably already knows she shouldn’t be doing that, that it’s illegal, that her parents will be pissed off.

There’s more than enough blame to go around for all of us. It just goes to show: we will reap what we sow…

Did you see the one about the hundreds of girls filmed changing into their Hooters uniforms? While certainly this was a crime, was it really all that unexpected?
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

Well of course they have a “right” to their privacy, but do they really have any “expectation” of it in a sex saturated culture where almost everyone has a camera phone?

Yes, they do. Its one of the most fundamental rights. If we give up on that one we may as well give up on democracy entirely.

What these Hooters girls choose to reveal on their bodies is their business (as long as their not revealing it to children) but it should be their decision as to when and where they reveal it.

That little 15 year old girl was not engaged in child porn, she was simply acting like an adult.

What piss poor role models we are…

I couldn’t agree with you more.
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

Heck yeah its unexpected. Even Hooters girls have a right to privacy.

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