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Originally Posted by red-beard
The "sexting" situation, where kids take pictures of each other and send them by cellphone is, by statute, child pornography. The KIDS involved are guilty of distribution of Child Porn. And one of the punishments is...being put on the sex offenders registry.
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Those kids need some kind of punishment, but the sex offender registry is waaaayyy excessive. I'm shopping for a house right now and if I look up a street where I want to buy and see someone who has multiple priors with young kids and a violent rap sheet, well, I'd be concerned about that. If I saw some 16 yr. old on the registry for sexting, I'd not think twice about it, other than feel sorry for that kid's life being ruined over something so trivial.