Kids who photograph themselves naked are child pornographers and sex offenders

I don't see what everyone's problem is. She's a teenage girl for god sakes. Give all your heads a shake and look back to when you were all 15. Look what you have done. I had sex when i was 15 and I've been with that girl for 20 years now and we are happily married. It was completely common for girls 13, 14, 15, 16 to be married and having kids no more than 40 years ago. like my grandmother was 15 when she got married and she 7 children. So I guess she's a sex offender right? pfft. I don't think that a girl that young should have a conviction like that!, her life will be ruined. and for what being a human F**KING BEING! All you people that think that it's right for her or her parents lives to be ruined because she was doing what's in our nature. You need a reality check!. Who cares if she sent her bf a picture or 2. who hasn't!?. As long as their safe about it then WHO CARES!!! it's her life, she should be able to do what ever he wants. If it was to a 40 year old pedophile then this would be different. Just remember we were all born naked! If you fucking douches wanna talk about something that's actually messed up, go to www.chatroulette.com and go on for 5 minutes. Then come back and comment. and JDAMONB, Your an idiot... it hope you get hit by a train.. how are nude kids evil and the devil. how do they corrupt America. America isn't corrupt because of teenagers getting naked, it's corrupt because of people like you who help prosecute innocent people. And I call BUL***IT. when you were a kid kids didn't have camera's. a camera was like 500 bucks.. I'm sure "Little girls" as you would say , couldn't afford camera to bring to school. I'm 25 and when i was a kid we didn't even have computers , let alone camera's we can take pictures of our selves.. then go develop them.. your a RE**RD. plus that mustache makes you look like a pederass. All you people who think this girl and her family should be prosecuted should all rot in hell. YOU MAKE ME SICK!.

I agree with powerhungry, now should have nude kids. I think parents who have babies should abort them if they aren't born fully clothed, because naked kids and babies are evil, vile and nasty. Of course you know teens only get naked to corrupt the moral fabric which tightly binds America. Its evil the way these nude lil buggers are are attacking the morally righteous and superior finger pointers. Why cant they focus on constructive things like stealing and murder and maybe war-mongering? Stupid kids, can't we just jail them all before they break the law?

In regard to amdz541: Dude I'm 40 and when I was in school little girls were taking nude pics of themselves at school and sharing them with their friends and boys and that was before digital cameras an phones.

My appologies for the sarcasm, but some need to get a grip.

We should thank the prosecutor for showing us the logical folly of a strict interpretation of our laws.

Our laws that are forged out of a strict interpretation of the morals of the many. (Well, if not the many, then the loudest of our population)

We hope that the judge will actually use his common sense in this case, because our laws are supposed to protect us (and this little girl) from abuse -- especially abuse BY the law.

The prosecutor's position is political. Personally, I hope he takes his phoney morals and goes back to selling used cars.

This is indicative of the problem with our society
We glorify the vile
Then over punish when you emulate the glowing box

Who even prosecuted this?
It only happened because she was a foster child
Any lawyer could have gotten this kicked

America the Great

OMG A NAKED BODY RUN AWAY FROM IT!!!!!!!!

people act like the human body is something so vile and disgusting and yet everyone has one and is born OMG NAKED. this case is just further proof we need to reform sex education. also more evidence of the general failure of parents in guiding their children to make wise decisions. lets face it parents cant completely force their children to do everything right but cant you at least teach them the difference between right and wrong... thinking and taking pictures of yourself and sending them to everyone.

she shouldnt be charged... she needs help in differentiating between good actions and stupid decisions.

hahahahahahahahahaha

i am a mother of a daughter i was also a teenage girl once and i like my daughter i have made mistakes that is part of growing up, this is up to the parents to deal with, i like the idea of grounding and no phone privileges also discuss repercussions of ones actions, i am not condoning what she has done but it wasn't a crime

Our children are constantly bombarded with nude and semi-nude images on Television and in the media so it's no wonder they are fascinated by their own bodies and those of the opposite sex. It's healthy. We were all born naked after all.

Images of nude children have been depicted in art since before the camera and I'm pretty sure most parent have pictures of their kids running around a sprinkler or playing in the bath. Is this porn? I think not. It is innocence personified. It is only the sick mind that seeks sexual gratification in images of nudity. The human form in all stages of development is art in motion.

The state has no right to destroy this young girls life over a picture of herself. If people don't like it - Don't look.

The real sex offender here is the state.

WOW lets just twist this whole thing up why dont we. Ok she was trying to show off her body big deal. We pay money to go to the movie and watch people show off their bodies infront of millions. Get at me. She was trying to be a "grown up" tell her not to do it again take her phone for a week and drop the issue. I have an 11 year old sister and i would be very very upset if she were to pull something like this but lets take it as it is. MAKING A MISTAKE. What no one here has made one of those?

Holycity2012, that is Bullshit, and has nothing to do with this story. 9/11 only changed a two things.

1:It killed 2974 people, who you are using as a political tool to discredit people you've never met and kill people you know nothing about.

2: It gave the Bush administration a chance to go to war in the middle East, thus granting a chance at another four years of moneymaking to Bush's buddies in the Oil business.

And on the issue itself, I took amdz541's advice and searched "Self shot pics" sure enough, you have to go 12 pages down to find a a non-pornographic picture.

I'll tell you what!

We need to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here.

9/11 changed everything!

I'm 26.

When I was 15 the girls in my school sure as hell weren't taking nude photos of themselves and sharing them with boys.

Social networking sites and an increasingly digital social world has lead to this. In just over 10 years with access to quick/dirty technology and a lack of education from parents it seems kids aren't being made aware of the dangers and ramifications involved in using this technology.

I'm not here to comment on the legal system or what's right/wrong, I'm just saying I can't believe how many teens do this without thinking twice these days.

A quick search for "self-shot pics" with reveal just how bad this issue really is. Sure all the sites claim they're 18 and legal, but come on.

15 year olds are going to see other 15 year olds naked, its a part of growing up, this is just taking a good law too far.

What really sucks is the assholes who support this.

excuse me?! are these people serious? if someone, no matter thier age, wants to take pictures in the nude then that's their buisness!!

what a sick joke. the youth of america...jesus christ.

What in the world? This is crazy...to prosecute is waste of money. That is what parents are for.

I think this girl should be considered a terrorist.

no, but for real, now days you can be convicted of taking a wiz outside and have to register as a sex offender.

America really needs to chill with making everyone a criminal 'cause it seems like it is way out of control.

So she will be a sex offender as a minor. How will that play out when she gets older, and people can't hire her to work with children. What will she tell them. I was 15 taking naked pictures of myself for my boyfriend who was also 15. That doesn't make sense.

I think that underage teens should be able to take naked pictures of themselves and even share them with underage teens if they want. It should only be a crime if that underage teen sends her/his naked pics to an adult or an adult has those pictures.

The right-wing in America has gone stark, raving insane.

Freedom to take pictures of children and then to distribute them? Sick people.

This is not about party affiliation! Its about the fact that none of you have morals and must have a pedophilia thing going on in your sad little brains.

Anglczn...You never really have anything to offer so I will not bother.

I think a logical punishment would have been, "No, you shouldn't have done this, you are grounded from your phone for a month."

Maybe the girl just wanted to get famous the same way Paris Hilton did.

wtf is ohio's problem . this makes more than a dozen f--ed up stories coming out of ohio in the last month .

And America's puritanical denunciation of sex goes one step further than ridiculously strict.

Does anyone in this country still believe in freedom anymore?

Or is that just a catch-phrase those conservatives use to hate on liberals?

THESE ARE CHILDREN!!!! HAVE YOU ALL LOST YOUR MINDS?
So we should just have anarchy? You people make me sick.

Kids should NOT take nude pics of themselves and no one should have a picture of a nude child.

A girl at my school took naked pictures of herself and sent it around. If people were caught with it on their phones they were arrested. But the Sheriff made an announcement that morning so that everyone deleted it. But in this case, its just being blown out of proportion a bit...

Dear america,

How much proof do you need that your policies, although well intentioned, are fundamentally flawed?

You systematically harm those you are responsible for protecting.

You need to smarten up because you look really stupid to the rest of the world and to anyone with a shred of common sense.

The prosecutors in this case should be charged with malicious prosecution and child abuse.

Why hasn't Vanessa Hudgens gotten arrested yet? Those pictures of her look like she was 15.

What the hell? Unless the other kid didn't want the pictures it's her choice.

This is just anti-sex politicians who were horrified that she took pictures of herself. So, to punish her "promiscuous" ways, they will put her on a sex offender registry.

This smells entirely of anti-sex and wanting teenagers to not imply sexual acts and that they should wait til marriage.

I wonder if the person who turn the images in knew the full punishment of this?

Way to confuse the hell out of everything.

To hell with freedom of speech, you know things are bad when you lose the freedom to take a naked picture of yourself.