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Teens send nude pics to one other, face kiddie porn charges
Two girls from Greensburg, who police say are "14 or 15" years old, allegedly sent nude photos to two boys who are slightly older than them (16 or 17) using their cell phones. The photos were discovered in October after one of the youngsters was caught using a cell phone during school hours—a violation of school rules—and had the phone taken away. The photos were discovered at that time—I didn't know teachers could go snooping through your cell phone, either—and turned over to police.
"It was a self portrait taken of a juvenile female taking pictures of her body, nude," Greensburg Police Department captain George Seranko told WPXI News. "Taking nude pictures of yourself, nothing good can come out of it."
Apparently nothing good came out of grammar school for Seranko either. Draconian laws at their best - hurting the ones they're supposed to protect. No wait, maybe they're not trying to protect the kids after all. I found this comment from the article's discussion section quite interesting:
If you think of it that way, painting these kids as evil deviants that need to be locked up for their own good helps promote the notion of a scary sub-human class that needs to be wiped out. Food for thought I guess.
His second post is equally interesting:
- Mike
Two girls from Greensburg, who police say are "14 or 15" years old, allegedly sent nude photos to two boys who are slightly older than them (16 or 17) using their cell phones. The photos were discovered in October after one of the youngsters was caught using a cell phone during school hours—a violation of school rules—and had the phone taken away. The photos were discovered at that time—I didn't know teachers could go snooping through your cell phone, either—and turned over to police.
"It was a self portrait taken of a juvenile female taking pictures of her body, nude," Greensburg Police Department captain George Seranko told WPXI News. "Taking nude pictures of yourself, nothing good can come out of it."
Apparently nothing good came out of grammar school for Seranko either. Draconian laws at their best - hurting the ones they're supposed to protect. No wait, maybe they're not trying to protect the kids after all. I found this comment from the article's discussion section quite interesting:
composer777 said:I'm really not so sure that's what these laws are about. I think that there are probably better ways to protect children that are being avoided. I really am very suspicious of the extreme nature of these laws, much as I am the drug laws. I feel weirded out even typing "sex offender" in my search engine, which is what I really think contraband laws are about. It's to stifle dissent, and get people used to the idea of a sub-human class. Once you get people used to the idea that a certain segment of the population isn't human, then it's much easier to take away their rights. I understand the need to punish criminals, but I think that if we start to view other's as sub-human, we lose some of our own humanity in the process.
If you think of it that way, painting these kids as evil deviants that need to be locked up for their own good helps promote the notion of a scary sub-human class that needs to be wiped out. Food for thought I guess.
His second post is equally interesting:
The point here is that we can help exploited children, but this isn't the way to do it. Much can be done to fix society's problems, but let's not dare inconvenience the higher ups.composer777 said:Given the fact that poverty plays a big role in the victimization of women and children, one would think that a serious effort to increase welfare would be a big part of combating pornography and prostitution, which usually end up occuring as crimes of last resort with respect to women, or the fact that disadvantaged children often times have no one looking out for them. But, a serious war on poverty would question the rights of the wealthy, which is unthinkable, so instead we blame the tragic condition of many US children on child pornography, or drugs, etc. We protect our children with a vengance, so that they can go to jail, or work minimum wage, or get stuck in Iraq, and maybe a small fraction can end up with a decent life. That's protection...
- Mike