16yo girl texts boob pics to her 16yo bf

>16yo girl texts boob pics to her 16yo bf
>both arrested for child pornography

How exactly does this make sense?

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one for distributing and one for possessing

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>How exactly does this make sense?

It really doesn't

16 y o are legal

in the same way some dude went to prison after consensual sex with his GF. Both were 17. The guy turns 18 2 months before his GF, GF's daddy didn't like him. Reported for rape. Wasn't allowed to speak to GF etc etc.

It all got cleared up and he spent no time in prison, but his life is ruined forever. American legal system everyone.

Good job providing context and a link fucknuts.

Not for porn, however they are the age of consent in some states

If she sent boob pics to a 30 yr old, would that be okay? If her boyfriend leaked her boobs online, would people viewing the images be guilty of a crime?

The idea that the legality of possessing an image depends on your age is a strange one, and without precedent. I say it's either all or nothing.

It is illegal.
criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/juvenile/sexting.htm

To protect them from themselves.

>Sexting is illegal even under same aged individuals
Haha hahahaha hahahahahaha

One of the motivations for this law is the foreverness of the Internet and under 18 means you don't always understand future consequences that will never be the same. So the cyber police have to try.

>How exactly does this make sense?
It's a letter-of-the-law thing.
Besides, once the pic is out of her control she has no way of controlling its use. 16-year old's tits are currency in some places.

>>Sexting is illegal even under same aged individuals
Oddly, where I live thse kids can legally screw.
As long as their ages are within 2 years of each other.

Where I live, an 18 year old can legally fuck a 14 year old. God forbid the 18 year old is in possession of nudes of the 14 year old, though. Sex and consent laws can be really stupid.

No, it makes sense to have a higher threshold for something that sticks around and can have unintended repercussions decades later.

Tabloid journalism feeds off of that shit in a way that it doesn't off of a two sentence story, probably because the target audience is functionally illiterate.

what does this have to do with technology

Depends the state.

Most states, actually.

FPBP

and 18 is the magical age at which that mental switch flips overnight

laws based on age and other biological factors are bullshit

This has fuck all to do with tech. Take it to the right board.

they both got 16y prison time
lol
serves them right

The idea is that "child porn" is damaging and exploitative but for some reason the law has picked the rather arbitrary age of anything under 18 to define as a child. It's not because pictures stick around although prosecutors have somewhat used that excuse that it will "teach them a lesson about doing things they might regret" to turn pairs of 16 and 17 year olds into sex offenders and crippling their lives.

So in most states of the US you can fuck a 16 year old, or younger in some cases, but if you take a picture of them or if they send a picture to you of themselves at 17 years and 364 days old its a crime and you can get slapped with a sex offender label.

It makes as little sense as being turned into a sex offender for pissing in public.

>there will be consequences if we let you post these pictures on the internet
>that's why we're going to punish you with the far worse consequences of jail time and being listed as a sex offender

>18
>dating a 17 year old girl
>can't tell anyone that we were dating because our relationship was illegal

are you the autist that always answers questions with an essay? (serious question)

I am A autist who mostly answers with essays but hardly the only one on Sup Forums. I really don't normally post much.

Guys, anyone know what the laws on this are outside of America? >__>

Some people take the "degeneracy" meme seriously. These people are the ones that tend to seek/obtain positions of authority.

thisiswhywecan'thavenicethings.jpg

>picture of a nakey 18 year old
Dude that's hot!!

>picture of a nakey 17 year old one day before her birthday
YOU SICK FUCK YOU BELONG IN PRISON

To make this more Sup Forums related:
How would you go about encrypting photos? Is it possible to encrypt stuff on your phone?
What would happen if you were suspected of having such photographs and had to unencrypt them?

>How would you go about encrypting photos? Is it possible to encrypt stuff on your phone?
no it's impossible to encrypt things on your phone, only computers are capable of this technology and phones aren't computers at all
>What would happen if you were suspected of having such photographs and had to unencrypt them?
you're screwed then dude because it's not like you could just not decrypt it, that's illegal!

>How would you go about encrypting photos?
same way as with any data.

>Is it possible to encrypt stuff on your phone?
yes, on any rooted Android

>What would happen if you were suspected of having such photographs and had to unencrypt them?
Shut the fuck up, don't talk to police, sell your mother to hire a good lawyer.

I just bailed a friend out of jail
>$10,000 dlls for bond
>He had sex with a girl twice, and oral a few times.
>She lied about her age.
>He dropped her off at her house once and her parents noticed my friend.
>21 at that time.
>Parents file report.
>a WHOLE year later he gets arrested
>Sexual assault, now facing up to 10 years and become a labeled sex offender


How is this even legal? The girl freaking lied! Her parents are the ones that pressed charges not her.

Where I live in the USA either of those 16 year olds could legally have sex with an 80 year old if they wanted to. Doesn't make sexually explicit pictures of a minor not child porn.

Welcome to america where a 12yo boy peeing in the woods will be labeled a sex offender for the rest of his life but a 40yo dude can rape as many kids as he wants as long as he has enough money for lawyers when he gets caught :^)

It has to do with labor and contract law. It makes sense to have 18 as the threshold for child porn because that is also the age one must be to sign legally binding contracts.

There is plenty of room for arguing against lifetime punishment against relatively minor infractions.

>Oddly, where I live thse kids can legally screw.
>As long as their ages are within 2 years of each other.

It's sort of troubling that there are laws that say what we can or can not do with our own body parts.

>16 yo girl snaps naked pic of herself, this is content creation
>said content is of a naked minor
>Federal law defines child pornography as any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor and further a picture of a naked child may constitute illegal child pornography if it is sufficiently sexually suggestive.
>she sends the picture, this is distribution of said child pornography
>16 yo boyfriend gets pic and keeps it in his phone, email, etc. This is receiving child pornography.
> Federal law prohibits the reception, and possession of an image of child pornography. It's also illegal to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for purposes of producing visual depictions of that conduct.
>if said 16 yo boyfriend asked her to take the pics, he's guilty of coercion and could/should face additional charges.

Shit ain't that hard to figure out.

>Federal law prohibits the reception of an image of child pornography.
so can someone just email anyone they dont like some CP and get them arrested and labeled a sex offender?

It isn't what you do with your own body parts; It's what you're doing with someone else who can't consent's body parts.

Otherwise we'd be locking up teenage boys for self abuse.

if we go by the letter of the law, yes.

RIP Ethereum users

i think it makes sense, since u are in possession of cp.

It's not cp.

I'm going to need an example of these pictures, OP.

While I understand that 18 is a convenient date to pick due to it being established for many other things it is lacking nuance (a picture of a 16 year old is not the same as a 12 year old, freely given is not the same as coerced) and does not match the reality of age of consent laws. Part of this is that age of consent is decided at the state level while child porn laws are mix of state and federal (mostly depends on who caught you).

It seems to me some adjustment is needed for these laws to not conflict with each other. But prosecutors love making reputations by being "tough on crime" no matter how victimless, prisons like making money, and nobody really wants to stand up for child pornographers so the laws will likely stand.

Just ban all boob pics.

why?

>both arrested for child pornography

>both

hahahahaha... no, it's nearly always just the male. Pussy pass

The way blockchain works, every user would have the image on their nodes and it would be impossible to take down.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1394192/2-Florida-teenagers-arrested-sexting-girl-sent-boy-topless-photo.html

FREEDOM


where a star kills someone and doesnt get anything for it just a big nono ur bad :( and someone spends 10 years behing bars for weed


MURICAAAAAAAAA

glad I never bothered with that shit

Kids are dumb

They should just follow the law and they'd never be in any trouble.

Look at some tits in person where you can enjoy them not through a tiny phone screen like a freak.

Older law made that didn't take into account future technologies like cheap cameras and texting images.

If I lived in Florida I would know the local laws and court system is a nightmare and I would avoid breaking the law so as not to end up in a similar situation.

Tech

This is the result of dumb laws.

No talking on your phone while driving lead to texting and driving which is far easier to hide.

Just like punishing teens for sexting leads to more sneaking out and having sex.

>Girl will get symbolic slap-on-wrist.
>Boy is screwed for life.

Equality!

Tfw from ages 16-23 I fucked 15-18 year olds

age restrictions where i live are bullshit.

>can fuck at 16
>can watch porn at 18

>can join military at 16
>can buy CoD at 18

>can buy alcohol at 18
>can drink alcohol from 5yo at home

>can drink alcohol from 5yo at home

most people don't know it, but this is the law in most of the US. It's perfectly legal for a child to drink in the home as long as their parent or guardian is present.

18 makes complete sense from a modelling standpoint, unless you want to allow people's guardians to sign them up for nude photos.

I agree that 17 and 12 year old nude material should be different crimes.