Charging teen sending nude selfie “absurd, unreasonable, and unjust”, court says.
14 year old “Jane Doe” sent a nude selfie to a boy she liked. He shared the image with a couple friends. Prosecutors charged the boys AND Jane Doe with child pornography offenses. Her, with transmitting child porn (in which the victim was herself), which goes along with 10 years on the sex offender registry.
In a rare happy ending to a story we wrote about earlier here, a Rice County Minnesota Judge found the child pornography law is designed to protect children from victimization and using it to punish the girl, “produces an absurd, unreasonable, and unjust result that utterly confounds the stated purpose of the statute.”
He dismissed the charges against her.
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It mentioned that the charges were dropped against the girl, what about the 2 boys? Were they dropped also?
It’s good to hear that a Judge understands the intention of the statue and dismissed the charges against her. No let’s keep the ball rolling and remove any statue that is unconstitutional.
How many judges are there in America?
Probably thousands.
How many would have the common sense to make this ruling?
Far too few.
What an indictment of our jurisprudence system.
Finally, a common sense approach to a stupid act.
Why is common sense so difficult to come by? If a 14 year old wants to send a ‘nudie’ to her boyfriend that’s her decision…not a very smart one…but her decision none the less! It’s amazing how times have changed. When I was that age I was scared to death to even ask a girl to dance.
At the same time, the teen boyfriend is on the hook for possession of CP, even if he didn’t ask for it to be sent to him.
OK, so now why isn’t the prosecutor disbarred in Minnesota for wasting the courts and taxpayer’s time??!! If more of these lawyers suffered such consequences, maybe they’d think twice about doing dumb shit like this!
Most prosecutors and their bosses, the DAs, are looking for convictions…NOT justice.
They probably thought this was an “easy win.”
Yes, the judge should throw the “Book” at them.
Pun intended.