[Jeff Higgins]

Wow. Talk about blowing things way, way out of proportion. This would have been something best left to the kids and their parents. Why on earth would the police feel the need to get involved in a case where kids are so obviously doing this willingly, among friends? Granted, they are exercising bad judgement. But to potentially saddle them with "sexual predator" status for the next decade?

The police and D.A. are ruining these kids' futures. How is this going to look on a college application, where it asks if you have ever been convicted of a serious crime? Pure grandstanding on the part of these ass holes. They are serving themselves, not the public at large when they decide to pursue cases like this.

Hopefully cooler heads prevail. Hopefully this gets tossed before it even goes to trial. I suspect there may be a problem with the school perusing the contents of the kid's phone, with it being his private property and all. Sure, they can take it away, but that does not give them the right to start looking through it to see what kind of private information it may contain. The case should get thrown out on that alone.