Ah, this one is for the books at least in Canada, here is the deal can a child be found guilty of distributing child pornography? As far as I know, no case like this has hit the courts in the United States, however it is coming and it's going to have to be decided in this country what to do. Everyday in the country and probably almost every "western" nation a teen is probably texting, e-mailing, or posting inappropriate pictures of another teen and eventually a case will hit the courts here and we as the public are going to have to let our views be know what kind of charges said teen will face.
I will find it hard to agree with a child pornography conviction against a teen, a conviction that will require that teen to register as a sex offender for the rest of his/her life. There is only one way I would agree to a conviction of child pornography in a case like this, and that would be if prosecutors can prove that the photos where being texted, posted or e-mailed to someone who is expecting the pictures in order to get sexual gratification from those photos, for instance the teen sends the pictures to a pornographic web page.
I believe what the courts will come up with in this country, because we are also currently trying to figure out how to deal with bullying in the courts, will end up prosecuting cases such as this under some type of bullying laws as I just can't see a 14 or 15 year old be charged as a sexual predator for sending out these pictures especially since normally the purpose of sending or posting these pictures is usually to hurt the feelings or embarrass the person that is in those photos
Canada teen convicted of 'sexting' photos of boyfriend's ex - CNN.com
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