What do you think about adults taking advantage of inexperienced minors?

[DenshaMan]

This happened last year.

I did not think it would be a big deal. So many girls do this I thought! Just look around the internet, girls do this all the time.

Wrong. He sent those pictures to his friends and they sent them around and one day during class (I was a freshman) I got called to the office. There were police. I had to give them my phone and yes they found the pics on it. They called my parents and we all had to go down to the sheriffs office. Eventually I admitted to taking the pics myself and they (the deputies) put me in handcuffs. Thankfully my dad told them then that we would no longer cooperate and he got me a lawyer.

The deputies (detectives?) threatened to charge me with distributing child pornogrophy if I didn't tell them who made me do it (this was before the lawyer showed up). My mom told me to tell them but my dad told me to stay quiet.

A year passed before the whole thing was dropped. During that time I was constantly harrassed by the sheriffs office and by bullys at school who found out about it.

I just received word today that the district attorney won't be filing charges against me though. I feel like a ton of bricks have been lifted off of me.

AMAA

(I'll be around until about 4pm, EST)

edit: Am I getting down voted for the new account? I'm at my cousins house right now and forgot my reddit password. Its saved on my computer at home... I know I should register via email but I didn't. Should I post this again under my regular reddit name? Or am I being down voted for some other reason?

edit3: I just wanted to talk.

My first post. I was reading this and some of the responses on reddit. I'm sure not all members of law enforcement are corrupt, but assuming the facts are true, what do you guys think?

[Cat_Doc]

I fail to understand where law enforcement officers being corrupt comes into play reference your post?

[MikeG]

Sounds like she was distributing child pornography. A presume Freshman is a 14-year old? The boy she sent it to is also doing it. And the person that requested her to do it is soliciting child pornography. Distributing sexually explicit pictures of 14 year olds for the purpose of sexual gratification is a crime. The author doesn't matter. The person who is photographed doesn't matter (even computer generated child porn is illegal). Some states have created a defense to those charges if the photo taker and recipient are close to the same age similar to statutory rape defenses but I have no idea of the status. I doubt it covers sending them to all his buddies. The fact she didn't cooperate in the investigation as a victim would lend me to believe she is complicit in the entire distribution. Sort of like a prostitute that claims gang rape after getting caught but isn't willing to prosecute or cooperate in the rape investigation.

I read nothing about corruption. Why did you mention it?

I'm not a LEO either. Zero tolerance for child porn even when it's created by 14 year olds that should know better. It's not as bad as a 30 year old snapping pictures of a 14 year old, but the end result is the same if they make it across cyberspace so penalties should be steep. If that photo is discovered by LE she is either a victim or criminal. She can't choose to be neither.

[DenshaMan]

I fail to understand where law enforcement officers being corrupt comes into play reference your post?

This was on reddit and the some were saying that the DA's were more concerned about catching another pedophile and didn't care so much about a young girl than about increasing another pedo number.

The fact she didn't cooperate in the investigation as a victim would lend me to believe she is complicit in the entire distribution.

I didn't catch this the first time. Good point.

Zero tolerance for child porn even when it's created by 14 year olds that should know better. It's not as bad as a 30 year old snapping pictures of a 14 year old, but the end result is the same if they make it across cyberspace so penalties should be steep

Although she's not old enough to consent because she lacks the judgement, does this mean punishment should be the same? I'm very much against child pornography as well, but it's surely different in this case in that it's not as clear-cut. There is no 30-year-old guy snapping pictures, but instead some other boy. In short, yes, this is and should be illegal, but as for punishment, do you think it should be the same?

[Citicop]

I fail to understand where law enforcement officers being corrupt comes into play reference your post?

This was on reddit and the some were saying that the DA's were more concerned about catching another pedophile and didn't care so much about a young girl than about increasing another pedo number.

Well... DA's do not equal cops, and having some things prioritized over others is not corruption.

Right?

-Citicop.

[MikeG]

Although she's not old enough to consent because she lacks the judgement, does this mean punishment should be the same? I'm very much against child pornography as well, but it's surely different in this case in that it's not as clear-cut. There is no 30-year-old guy snapping pictures, but instead some other boy. In short, yes, this is and should be illegal, but as for punishment, do you think it should be the same?

The punishment is not the same. She's a juvenile and goes through the juvenile system. The 30 year old goes to prison where the have a special affinity for child sex criminals.

A 14 YO gets caught sending photo to 14 YO boyfriend, that's a lecture. 14 YO sends photo to 30YO BF, that's jail time for 30YO, 14YO is victim. 30YO distributes porn pictures of 14YO and 14YO acts as accomplice and doesn't help prosecution even though her photo is being sent around the community? See's a child sex worker complicit in child pornography and she gets charged as a juvenile and spends some time in the incorrigible childrens home. 30yo spends the rest of his life with his new boyfriend in a 6x9 cell.

[DenshaMan]

That clears many things up for me. Thanks for the insight. The system gains some points from me.

[Kimble]

My first post. I was reading this and some of the responses on reddit. I'm sure not all members of law enforcement are corrupt, but assuming the facts are true, what do you guys think?

The word "all" seems to be the operative word in your statement above, as though you believe a significant number of cops are corrupt, just not all of them (all but a small majority rather than corrupt cops being the minority). Is that an accurate depiction of your beliefs?

[whatevers]

I think that if minors are producing it in a fair and consenting way, maybe they should be legally off the hook. maybe. but that's not how it is.

[Citicop]

I think that if minors are producing it in a fair and consenting way, maybe they should be legally off the hook. maybe. but that's not how it is.

I guess that's a nice thought, except for the part where minors cannot legally give consent for some things.

You know... because they are minors.

-Citicop.