Teenager gets criminal record for sexting pic of herself
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I've posted this in SPL, because this is a stupid law, which results in ordinary teenagers getting criminal records for sending pics of themselves to their boyfriend or girlfriend.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10983...
A schoolgirl has received a police caution after texting an explicit photograph of herself to her boyfriend, it has emerged.
The teenager sent the image via her phone, but after the couple had a row, he forwarded it to his friends.
Police were called in because she was under the age of 18 and therefore both were committing an offence of distributing an indecent image of a child.
Both received a caution but police are now warning other teenagers they could end up on the sex offenders register if they send explicit pictures of themselves via text messages or social media.
Nottinghamshire Police has sent letters to all schools in the county, saying it has “grave concerns” about the craze of “sexting”.
If there is a sexting "craze" then that means a lot of teenagers are doing it. Which means a lot of them can end up with criminal records and placed on the sex offenders register. Now posting nude pics of yourself which could be used against you later is a bad idea, but not as bad an idea of the state criminalising thousands of ordinary teenagers for doing it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10983...
A schoolgirl has received a police caution after texting an explicit photograph of herself to her boyfriend, it has emerged.
The teenager sent the image via her phone, but after the couple had a row, he forwarded it to his friends.
Police were called in because she was under the age of 18 and therefore both were committing an offence of distributing an indecent image of a child.
Both received a caution but police are now warning other teenagers they could end up on the sex offenders register if they send explicit pictures of themselves via text messages or social media.
Nottinghamshire Police has sent letters to all schools in the county, saying it has “grave concerns” about the craze of “sexting”.
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If there is a sexting "craze" then that means a lot of teenagers are doing it. Which means a lot of them can end up with criminal records and placed on the sex offenders register. Now posting nude pics of yourself which could be used against you later is a bad idea, but not as bad an idea of the state criminalising thousands of ordinary teenagers for doing it.
Edited by creampuff on Wednesday 23 July 20:54
fangio said:
And if your under-age daughter was sharing her naked body with the world, how would you feel? Would you know?
Well let's see. The choice is the teenage daughter shares her naked body via some electronic means and it doesn't turn out well, she gets embarrassed by it or the pic goes to people who she didn't intend it to go. OR
The teenage daughter shares her naked body via some electronic means and it doesn't turn out well, she gets embarrassed by it or the pic goes to people who she didn't intend it to go. PLUS she ends up with a criminal record and 2 years on the Sex Offenders Register.
Which one do you think is preferable?
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