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The Agitator — ... So if I understand this correctly, they’re protecting these kids from harm . . . by charging them with child pornography for exploiting themselves. Yes. Makes perfect sense. ...

Too young to be in pictures
Wizbang — Drudge is linking this story today: GREENSBURG, Pa. -- Three teenage girls who allegedly sent nude or semi-nude cell phone pictures of themselves, and three male classmates in a Greensburg Salem High School who received them, are charged with child pornography. Police said the girls are 14 or 15, and the boys charged with receiving the photos are 16 or 17. None are being identified because most criminal cases in Pennsylvania juvenile courts are not public. "It was a self portrait taken of a juvenile female taking pictures of her body, nude," said Capt. George Seranko of the ...

Dream a little dream
The Sideshow — "High Schoolers Accused Of Sending Naked Pictures To Each Other" - Stories like this outrage me more than I can say. There is no way in hell you can justify prosecuting kids for making pictures of themselves as protecting anyone. It's disgusting. It should be stopped immediately. And it probably won't be, because you only have to utter the phrase "child porn" to make even normally sensible people into deranged loons who completely lose sight of the fact that these laws amount to nothing more noble than out and out child abuse. ...