Teens convicted for exploiting... themselves

[Fang2415]

Thanks for the post, Fang. And welcome.

In the future though, when starting a new thread in this forum, please make sure to put your own comments in a separate post and keep the body of your initial post just the content of the article.

Thanks -- I actually have been around before, but I only get around to posting every six months or so. And musta missed the "post comments seperately" bit during my skim of the sticky, heh.

Anyway, the thing I really love about this one is the "minors taking their clothes off at all is illegal" angle. I have several friends who, by deciding after long periods of consideration, discussion, and soul-searching to lose their virginity at 18 to their 16-year girlfriends, were legally guilty of statutory rape. Hey, lock up the paedos and throw away the key, I say. Unless you add three years to both ages, in which case it's fine.

This Slashdot post (http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?...0&cid=17966064) sums up pretty well how needlessly destructive this kind of thing can be:

The damage done to them by the law (branded as sex offenders for life, having to register their whereabouts on a public database, unable to freely choose where they live, work, and be free of harassment, barred from ever adopting or probably even raising their own children if they ever plan to have any) is far more devastating to their lives than if the pictures ever got out.

Don't think that just because they're minors now that their records will remain sealed. I wouldn't be surprised if there were already sex-crime exceptions to that.

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