Sexting Victim is also the Perpetrator

More on the criminal prosecution of the 14 year old NJ girl who posted 30 nude images to her MySpace account: A key hurdle for prosecutors is that technology has outpaced the legal system. Most states don't have laws specifically addressing teens who transmit explicit images, a practice sometimes referred to as "sexting." The only New Jersey laws applicable to the Clifton case are those designed for sexual predators and child pornography traffickers, said Parry Aftab, executive director of the nonprofit group WiredSafety.org. Nonetheless, the consequences could be serious. If convicted of distributing child pornography, the 14-year-old could be ...

Sexting Students Strike Back

Whether it's just a fad or something more, the sexting issue continues to make headline news. Here's an interesting twist to the teen craze from where else but Pennsylvania. Today, child porn advocates from the ACLU of PA will ask a federal judge in Scranton to issue an injunction to protect three teenage girls from the threat of criminal charges for using their cell phones to take and send semi-nude images of themselves. The suit accuses the Wyoming County DA of violating the three girls' First Amendment rights and seeks a court declaration that the images "are not child pornography or any other crime." The DA said he considered the photos “...

Express Observation (Teen Sex and Tech)

5.2 million teens guilty of child pornography? See my updated post on sexting and check out Sex and Tech at Link

Express Observation (Self-made Teen Porn Arrests)

Teens willingly producing their own porn charged 4 violating laws aimed at protecting chldren exploited by others Link

Cyber Conflict of Interest – Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center Calls Online Threats to Children Overblown

At first glance, the news in today's New York Times that "the Internet may not be such a dangerous place for children after all" will give many a sense of relief. Look closer, however, and you'll quickly discover that cyber-industry heavyweights have co-opted the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. By selling itself to the industry it is allegedly investigating, the Berkman Center has become both a shrill and a shield for the powerful well-funded online establishment. First the "news." According to the NYT: A task force created by 49 state attorneys general to look into the problem of sexual solicitation of children online ...

Kids Producing and Distributing their own Child Porn

Children producing and distributing their own child pornography has long been a dream of child porn devotees and a nightmare for parents and law enforcement. Not surprisingly, digital technology combined with ease of distribution through social networks and e-mail has made this theoretical threat to children a sad reality. This disturbing trend, most recently profiled at Wired, raises some thorny legal issues. As anyone who has followed this blog knows, I am no fan of child pornography or child exploitation, even calling for the execution of those found guilty of child rape. Homemade child porn which is directed, created, and distributed by the ...

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