<story><title>In ‘sexting’ case, police want to photograph teen in sexually explicit manner</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/07/09/in-sexting-case-manassas-city-police-want-to-photograph-teen-in-sexually-explicit-manner-lawyers-say/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jemaclus</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not really sure if I&amp;#x27;m in the minority or not, but I really don&amp;#x27;t see a crime happening here. Maybe you ground them and take away their phones, but, I mean, these kids are under the guardianship of their parents and are presumably in a relationship that both sets of parents have (at the very least) acknowledged. It&amp;#x27;s not like he just sent her the video out of the blue with no warning.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t see a crime here, when both parties are in a relationship and both consent to the transaction.&lt;p&gt;I dunno. Maybe I&amp;#x27;m naive or something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clarky07</author><text>I really hope you aren&amp;#x27;t in the minority. I agree with you. I find it absurd that it&amp;#x27;s a crime for 2 dating teenagers to be &amp;quot;sexting&amp;quot;. The worse part is when one is 18 and the other is 16 or 17 or something (depending on where you live laws are different). The things they be charged with is absurd. And then as a bonus they get to be on the sex predators database for the rest of their lives for having consensual sex with their significant others.</text></comment>
<story><title>In ‘sexting’ case, police want to photograph teen in sexually explicit manner</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/07/09/in-sexting-case-manassas-city-police-want-to-photograph-teen-in-sexually-explicit-manner-lawyers-say/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jemaclus</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not really sure if I&amp;#x27;m in the minority or not, but I really don&amp;#x27;t see a crime happening here. Maybe you ground them and take away their phones, but, I mean, these kids are under the guardianship of their parents and are presumably in a relationship that both sets of parents have (at the very least) acknowledged. It&amp;#x27;s not like he just sent her the video out of the blue with no warning.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t see a crime here, when both parties are in a relationship and both consent to the transaction.&lt;p&gt;I dunno. Maybe I&amp;#x27;m naive or something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>300bps</author><text>The strangest thing about this is that the boy is considered both the victim and the perpetrator of the crime.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The teen is facing two felony charges, for possession of child pornography and manufacturing child pornography&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The only thing he&amp;#x27;s being charged with is manufacturing and possessing pictures &lt;i&gt;of himself&lt;/i&gt;.  These laws obviously exist to protect children from predators and in this case, the district attorney is saying that he is both the child and the predator.  It&amp;#x27;s a preposterous (though not unprecedented) use of these laws.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s quite clear the the mother doesn&amp;#x27;t approve of this relationship and she is using the law to clamp down on it.  There may be something about the relationship that offends some people&amp;#x27;s sensibilities (ex:  interclass or interracial dating) which is providing the DA cover to do this nonsense.</text></comment>