Can you see me?
School officials and prosecutors statewide are baffled on how to attack a growing porn problem of kids sending nude cell phone pictures of themselves to other students.
Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings says, "This is far more widespread than we know even at this point in time."
Teens say the high-tech "show me yours" trading is the newest courting behavior. But Ronald Dunn, a Davis County prosecutor, says it goes beyond daring to violating federal child pornography statutes.
Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings says, "This is far more widespread than we know even at this point in time."
Teens say the high-tech "show me yours" trading is the newest courting behavior. But Ronald Dunn, a Davis County prosecutor, says it goes beyond daring to violating federal child pornography statutes.
It appears to be a mutual decision to engage in flirtatious behavior . . . but it's raised to a level that makes it a felony.But who should be charged with the federal felony? When some Monticello High School girls recently sent nude pictures of themselves to boys, the boys, of course, were receiving pornography. But the girls were trafficking in child porno. Still, charging them along with the boys risked "revictimizing" the girls. What's a prosecutor to do? San Juan County Attorney Craig Halls says:
It seems like people get incensed with the boy because he passed it around the locker room. But when you look at it, you say, who initially distributed this, if it is pornography?"Halls says that rather than tying up the courts, do-it-yourself cell porno might best be handled at the family level:
Parents ought to handle this by keeping track of their kids or taking away their cell phones.
1 Comments:
Simple, charge the parents of the teens for contributing to the delinquency of a minor for providing the phone. If enough parents get charged, they'll wake up to the problem. No one ever said a teenager has to have a cell phone.
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