Teen facing porn charges for taking nude pics of herself
Categories: Teens & tweens, In the news
What were you thinking? If you're a parent of a teen, you may have found yourself asking this question more than once. According to recent research, if a teen answered the question honestly, they might says, "I wasn't." Experts say that a teen's risky behavior often has little thought behind it at all.Which makes the fact that teens often have free reign over technology a little scary. Take the new trend of teens taking naked pictures of themselves or others and either sending them to friends or posting them on the Internet. What a lot of these kids may not realize, as their parents do, is that once a picture is on the Internet, it has the potential to exist forever.
One 15-year-old girl is learning that lesson the hard way. She took naked pictures of herself, then sent them off to classmates. If she was looking for attention, she got it. Authorities recently charged her with illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented materials, and she could even be named a sex offender. The students who received her photos may face charges as well, since the photos are considered child pornography.
Authorities say that the practice is ballooning and that kids don't realize how much trouble they can get themselves into, not to mention others. A field hockey coach was recently convicted on child pornography charges after one of his athletes sent him a photo of herself in her underwear. If you think that this issue warrants a discussion in your house, visit SafetyClicks for advice on how to keep kids safe online.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ninainindia 10-11-2008 @ 10:00PM
This doesn't make sense. she can be charged as a sex offender for 'offending' herself? The people that received the photo didn't ask for it so how could they be charged?
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Kerri 10-12-2008 @ 12:32AM
I agree that this is something that she should've known better than to do. That being said....
This is just one of the many examples of the law taking things too far. Like ninainindia said, you can't control what you receive in your inbox. Plus, how can she "offend" herself, so how can they charge her as a sexual offender?
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Daniel Lovejoy 10-12-2008 @ 3:05AM
You mean all of the websites that had pictures of Vanessa Huggins (or however you spell it) could be charged with having child porn on their site?
She might have been 18 when the pictures came out, but she was 16 when she shot them.
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Simon 10-15-2008 @ 2:21PM
look as far as it goes i agree compleatly to all of your comments they all have good points, but lets face it we can not know for sure she didnt infact sell the photo's there are things called "lies" out there and they are in good number. calling her a sex offender is not really a good choice of words but she could infact get in trouble for the pictures as a form of vandalism or sexual harrasment. either way you thing you have to know that the law is such that anyone can bend it and make it seem like someone did something "illegal" so no matter what we say she is going to get what they give her.
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Kaseycumslut 11-10-2008 @ 12:33AM
Who cares?
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