There are thousands of people listed on the North Carolina State Sex Offender registry. There is a county by county list. The majority of them are not behind bars. And they’re not all who you think. In fact, your teen’s name could one day be listed because they willingly sent a naked picture of themselves to a boyfriend or girlfriend who asked for it.
When a 16-year old sends a nude picture, it is exploiting a naive child (themselves). This is such a serious crime when they take the picture they should look at themselves in the mirror and see an adult, who will be charged and sentenced as an adult. At the same time, when they see themselves in the mirror and about to take the picture, they should also see the innocent child who is too naive to consent to having their picture taken! Young teens can instead ask their parents to take them to one of the five family friendly nudist communities in Florida were they can prance around nude and invite their friends to gape and stare at them in a socially acceptable way. The rules of society don’t always make sense to us. That is why we have the wisdom of our lawmakers! Also, if the teens send nude pictures that are not sexual, they can use the Sally Mann/ Jock Sturgis exception. Sally Mann published nude pictures of her children in several books. Sally Mann’s latest book, “Hold Still”, published in 2015, was released with a chapter devoted to the controversy over the nude pictures of Sally Mann’s children that her now adult children consented to have published. Prisoners awaiting trial at the Lake County, IL jail could check out a hardcover copy of this book and view dozens of pictures of Sally Mann’s nude children while awaiting trial for possession of just one picture of a nude child. Interesting that a book with nude pictures of children can be found in the jail library but all of the law books to assist prisoners in fighting their case were discarded. The controversy of the nude pictures of Sally Mann’s children was covered in the Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2018 and February 6, 1991. Sally’s youngest daughter, Virginia, was offended that her picture was censored in the “Wall Street Journal” in 1991. At age 4½, Virginia Mann wrote a letter to the editor of the “Wall Street Journal” objecting to the way her picture was censored. If one were to compare the censored picture from the “Wall Street Journal” to the unedited picture as shown in “Aperture” magazine, the censored one looks quite disturbing, as if the child has some sort of grotesque abnormality, such as deformed or fully mature breasts that would be shocking for anyone to see on a child. In fact, Life Magazine published an uncensored nude photo of 9-year old Phan Thi Kim Phúca running down the street who suffered burns when Napalm disintegrated her clothes! The January 2016 edition of “National Geographic” includes photos of per-pubescent girls and their genitals just before “female circumcision”, a cruel practice of mutilation that would be a felony if performed in the United States! Surely, for the “Wall Street Journal” to censor this picture of Virginia Mann there must be something horrific about the picture! To believe this, you really don’t understand our society! As long as a picture of a nude child includes torture such as female circumcision or burns from napalm, there is no risk of going to jail. In fact, Facebook in 2016 made a special exception to allow the nude picture of 9-year old Phan Thi Kim Phúca to be shared. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/09/facebook-reinstates-napalm-girl-photo If the nude picture of a child does NOT involve torture, well, then, you may have a problem!
When I was a kid, there were not computers (Other than giant government ones) ,no email, no cell phones. There was no netflix, No Amazon, No ebay, No paypal. There were no CD,s (We had 8 tracks) and vinyl records.
If you wanted to date a girl , you passed them a note in school, Mine always got intercepted by the school bully and read in front of the class. So one time I put his name in the note as a joke for always stealing my notes. When he read it out loud that I wanted to be his boyfriend, I had to run home real quick like LOL Everyone laughed at him and I got pounded into the dirt but it was worth it for him being a jerk HAHA
Hate to say this, but they may be sort of a good thing. Hear me out.
We need something SO outrageous that the courts finally say “Enough is enough” and finally take a step back and realize this IS in fact punishment.
For God’s sake, we did our time. If you wanted to punish us ad infinitum, then our sentence should have broadcast that.
This is another example of how society is failing its children.
As long as these harsh registry laws exist, more young people will be listed for doing nothing more than young (and not-so-young) people have done since the beginning of time — pursuing their passions.
Since it seems unlikely that the registry will be eliminated anytime soon, honest information about the registry should perhaps be included as part of comprehensive sex education courses, so young people are aware of the potential real-world ramifications of “doing what comes naturally.”
Such nonsense when the whole war cry for the registry was to protect the children and now there almost 100 k under 18 on it ruining their lives forever.
Having consensual sex or sexting should in no way be a crime if both participants are under 18
When i was in high school 65% of the kids were having sex at 15 and how many seniors took a freshman to the prom? all we thought back then was that they made a cute couple now its a crime, it’s insanity
For each “consensual” incident of sexting and/or sexual activity by a minor, there will inevitably occur many times that number of incidents of non-consensual sex-related activity by youths who are not “lucky” enough to have obtained that magical consent.
for minors, there should be no concept of “consent” whatever! For those lucky few whose partner has given ‘consent”, there are dozens more who will be tempted to experiment sexually with or without “consent”.
Good on wfmynews.com.
Excellent story.
HELL NO my 3 kids would have long been on there but today they enjoy a normal life, college, work, baby’s…life goes on except for SOs .HELL NO; so what it’s kids end the war on sex!