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Virginia sexting laws under scrutiny
Crime Commission studies issue, but makes no legislative recommendation
article in fairfax time here http://bit.ly/1AMkGMY
So a teen sends a nude pic to their teen boyfriend/girlfriend and they are subject to the same criminal prosecution as professional porn distributor. Up to 30 years prison for your teen doing something stupid that harms no one. Makes perfect sense Sheeple. US has 5% world population and over 25% of the world prison population. Gotta keep that going somehow.
This entire sexting, child porn and what not needs to be revisited.
If 2 kids under 18 take pictures and share them, should they be subject to the same punishment that say a 40-60 year old would if they took pictures of underage kids?
So you have 2 middle or high school kids both under 18, one is say 14 the other is 16, they are still minors, aka DUMB kids. Whether or not they share pictures, should child porn laws apply?
I know plenty of underage kids are having sex, sexting, snap chatting and so forth.
I think there needs to be some adjustments to the laws that apply to 12 to under 18 years of age. Even if you have a 18 year old high school student and a 17 year old high school student doing stupid things, not sure this should be considered child porn. The 17 & 18 year old should know better, but they likely put themselves in this situaiton, very different than say kids under 12 or 10 years of age.