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Girl, 14, arrested after posting nude pics of herself on Myspace | KOMO News — Apparently the concept of exhibitionist is lost on these idiots. So this girl is a sexual predator? A threat to society?
Conundrum of the day. A 14-year-old girl gets naked and stands in front of a mirror. Is she looking at child porn? Should she be arrested for that too? The worst case scenario for this girl is that she is grounded by her Mom, not charged with a felony and ruined. What is wrong with these people? Where is the common sense in this country?
A 14-year-old New Jersey girl has been accused of child pornography after posting nearly 30 explicit nude pictures of herself on MySpace.com – charges that could force her to register as a sex offender if convicted.
The case comes as prosecutors nationwide pursue child pornography cases resulting from kids sending nude photos to one another over cell phones and e-mail. Legal experts, though, could not recall another case of a child porn charge resulting from a teen’s posting to a social networking site.
MySpace would not comment on the New Jersey investigation, but the company has a team that reviews its network for inappropriate images. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children tipped off a state task force, which alerted the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office.
The office investigated and discovered the Clifton resident had posted the “very explicit” photos of herself, sheriff’s spokesman Bill Maer said Thursday.
“We consider this case a wake-up call to parents,” Maer said. The girl posted the photos because “she wanted her boyfriend to see them,” he said.
Investigators are looking at individuals who “knowingly” committed a crime, he said, declining to comment further because the case is still being investigated.
The teen, whose name has not been released because of her age, was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography and distribution of child pornography. She was released to her mother’s custody.
If convicted of the distribution charge, she would be forced to register with the state as a sex offender under Megan’s Law, said state Attorney General Anne Milgram. She also could face up to 17 years in jail, though such a stiff sentence is unlikely.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children should be looking for “missing” and “exploited” children rather than persecute this naive show-off and ruin her life and the family’s life. Good work. This trivializes and marginalizes real sex crimes!
Found by Aric Mackey.
The fact that the state would ruin a 14 year old girls life for this proves that all this hype about the epidemic of child porn was never about helping the children. The real child exploitation is the use of this emotive issue to justify more law enforcment powers. Despicable and disgusting.
I can’t wait to see the first arrests for grandmothers and grandfathers showing their nude baby grandchildren to their friends online.
Let’s see how far that goes before some hot-shot DA gets his balls shot off.
Actually, she broke the law. By posting pictures of herself, because she is under the age of consent, she is, in in fact, distributing child pornography. Which is illegal. So the law enforcement is just doing their job.
I don’t think it is a crime to “look” at child pornography — only to possess it, and maybe to “make it.”
Yes, this should serve as a “wake up call to all parents” that their local Sheriff’s Office and DA is completely inept and out of control.
Really unbelievable, but I read it on a blog.
“I would like to purchase this mirror.
Can I see your ID please? “
What a Joke. Send her to bed without supper and her phone. Don’t the cops have better things to do? Like shake down hookers for a quickie, hangout at the doughnut shop. Your tax $ hard at work!
Stupid little bitch. She should be tossed into some prison with a lot of pedophiles for a few days to teach her a lesson.
Same with her neglectful parents, NO 14 year old should have unsupervised internet access.
First off John, ‘think about the children!’. 🙂
Second..
#6 It’s easy to generalize. When I was 14 years of age I had unsupervised internet access and I handled it fine. Many 14 year old kids are mature enough to handle such responsibilities, and it’s easy to misjudge your own kids. Be a bit more humble please. After all, if you treat your kids as babies for too long and don’t give them a chance to prove themselves worthy, chances are they will be immature assholes as adults.
They’re going to add her to the sex offenders register if (when) convicted?
Yet they can’t release her name due to her age?
Whichever choice they make the government will be breaking their own laws and MUST be sent to jail
Don’t they have juvenile courts in New Jersey?
Shouldn’t she be getting a stern lecture from a mean judge, a day in a juvie cell and then have her records sealed?
She needs to be punished? Okay, take away her cell phone and her My Space account.
#7, true, just like you did when you said that many 14 year olds are responsible.
I’m sorry, but until a kid reaches the legal age IT’S NOT enough to trust them and hope they won’t abuse that trust.
As a parent they are under YOUR care so damn well care for them, and that includes filtering EVERYTHING that comes through the tubes!!
#3 said, “…just doing their job.”
Yeah, so are the priests in this church.
#6 – What an attitude! This is why overbearing parents get bludgeoned to death.
#10 What did I do? Generalize? No.
And to be honest, You can’t filter everything, that’s why you need to raise them well and give them rules. Chances are they will break them sometime and see some crazy stuff on the internet, as would they if they would sneak out of the house at night and see drunk people stumbling all over the streets. And if you’re too hard on them, monitoring them all the time, well.. Then they probably won’t tell you when that happens.
That’s my take on it.
Is the illegal root that someone might become turned-on by a naked body, or it the crime to create a naked body?
I was thinking a couple weeks ago that God secretly took “perverse” pleasure seeing Adam and Eve naked, and became enraged when they saw their own nakedness, and covered themselves from God’s view. In response, God threw them both out of the eden he created for them.
What would Sarah Palin do?
Shoot a moose then kill a turkey!
Sarah would welcome you to The United Police States of America at every Canadian border.
This is what happens when a nation produces too many lawyers.
So, does being in a gym class locker room shower with all those nude bodies around you constitute some sort of crime under this bizarro world set of laws?
Would taking and looking at a nude photo of yourself be a crime?
I confess I touched myself when I was a minor but fortunately, the statute of limitations has expired.
I recant my statement. There is no statute of limitations for sex with a minor.
I never touched myself as a minor.
#20 #21
Calling the FBI on your ass. Have fun getting that shiv in your gut for being a filthy pedophile.
This girl needs the maximum sentence so she can be used as an example to others. Children should be taught to be afraid of expressing their sexuality until they hit the magical age of consent when they are mature enough to make there own decisions.
#20, & 21, Dallas,
Damn you all the way to Crawford!!! Here I had something intelligent and thoughtful in my head as I read the posts until I came to yours. Then I just lost everything picturing you taking advantage of yourself.
Well, the laugh helped me start my Saturday a little brighter.
Bobbo…child porn is contraband; if you’re viewing it on your PC, then it’s ON your PC, and you therefore possess it. If you get prosecuted your lawyer can’t have copies of the evidence, it’s like heroin that way.
You’re not likely to get in any trouble if you happen upon something illegal online, so long as you weren’t actively looking for it.
Source…an investigator for one of the regional FBI computer forensics labs.
#4 whatever helps you get to sleep at night Bobbo 😉
It’s a weird world we live in right now. They are giving pot smokers in Cali a pass and busting kids that show each other their privates. Bankers are getting a bail out while ex auto workers are getting their pensions skewered. The moral compass is looking like a Salvador Dali painting.
This is crazy. It’s clear that the girl just needs a good spanking. Check back on her MySpace page for photos of her punishment.
#27 Point taken, although you threw an orange in there with the apples.
Explain who exactly sets the moral compass, where are the morality bounds drawn and what are the governing rules of punishment?
I believe Saudi Arabia has solved this perplexing problem, but do you really want to live there with all those hot summers?
Pics or it didn’t happen.
Hm….
A 14 year old can’t be presumed to have the ability to consent to taking or posting those pictures, but can be severely punished for having done so….
Anybody else see the question?
(In some places, this young girl could walk down Main Street nude and not be at legal risk for the nudity. “Disturbing the peace”, maybe….)
We all have better things to do…. Taking and posting those pictures is really between her and her parents. Wrong to have done so? Yes, IMHO, but of interest to the Prosecutor? Nah….
Regards