The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota has issued a statement in defense of a teenage girl facing child pornography charges for snapping an explicit photo of herself and sending it to a classmate.
“To suggest that a juvenile who sends a sexually explicit selfie is a victim of her own act of child pornography is illogical,” said the ACLU Minnesota’s Legal Director Teresa Nelson according to CBS Minnesota. “Child pornography laws are supposed to protect minors from predators, and Jane Doe is not a predator.”
The 14-year-old, who was charged with the dissemination of child pornography, was also quoted in the statement saying, “Sexting is common among teens at my school, and we shouldn’t face charges for doing it. I don’t want anyone else to go through what I’m going through.”
The 14-year-old minor is facing criminal charges from Rice County after authorities discovered her male classmate showed the Snapchat photo to fellow students. The ACLU referred to the minor as “Jane Doe” in their brief in defense of the teenager who sent the pictures.
“It’s hard enough being a teenager and trying to come into your identity, let alone also having to navigate the challenges of technology and social media… Criminalizing teens for sending their *own* selfies only makes that process harder for Jane Doe and teens like her,” ACLU of Minnesota tweeted on Friday.
The teenager will have to register as a sex offender until the age of 24 if she is convicted, according to the New York Daily News.
No Property Crime, No Domestic Violance, No DWI with excellent driving record, No Arrest Back Ground Check for fifteen years, No Jail. A two year probation with no violations equals, No Job.
From the article:
“The teenager will have to register as a sex offender until the age of 24 if she is convicted, according to the New York Daily News.”
The ironic thing is that she will be on the sex offender registry and it will be illegal for her to check the registry for sex offenders living near her…how will she keep herself safe from herself if she can’t see herself on the registry?
Yet another victim of conservative America’s ongoing War on Sex!
Read of another case where a teen boy sent a pic of his junk to a 20 something year old woman she reported it and he was listed on the charging affidavit as the perpetrator and the victim for distribution of child pornography how crazy is that. Kids have been experimenting with sex since the dawn of time it just gets around faster to more people now but the basics remain the same when will America stop being so freaked out about sex Europe isn’t in ruins
when will our government open there eyes and see that this is just anther idiotic means for the states to get gov: grants money at any
means just more red tape that the states can get away with. maybe
our president has not seen the wast of money. take down this registry down. keep children off the registry this ruins the family control I believe
this should be for the parents to make intervention. good luck young
lady and keep up the good fight.
Where does this lunacy of one person being both predator and victim stop?
Using that same logic, couldn’t she be booked for child molestation for “self-abuse”? Sorry, I shouldn’t give them ideas!