This news story is pretty ridiculous. What next? Will underage teenagers who have sex with other teenagers be charged with child molestation? I lost my virginity when I was 17 and the guy was 17 as well. I don’t see anything wrong with that. And I definately don’t see anything wrong with these two teenagers taking photos of themselves for their own private pleasure.

From Cnet News:
Police blotter: Teens prosecuted for racy photos

“Combine unsupervised teenagers, digital cameras and e-mail, and, given sufficient time, you’ll end up with risque photographs on a computer somewhere.

There’s a problem with that: Technically, those images constitute child pornography. That’s what 16-year-old Amber and 17-year-old Jeremy, her boyfriend, both residents of the Tallahassee, Fla., area, learned firsthand. (Court documents include only their initials, A.H. and J.G.W., so we’re using these pseudonyms to make this story a little easier to read.)

On March 25, 2004, Amber and Jeremy took digital photos of themselves naked and engaged in unspecified “sexual behavior.” The two sent the photos from a computer at Amber’s house to Jeremy’s personal e-mail address. Neither teen showed the photographs to anyone else.

Court records don’t say exactly what happened next–perhaps the parents wanted to end the relationship and raised the alarm–but somehow Florida police learned about the photos.”

Posted by Vixen in News