Teen Boy Arrested for Nude MMS of Ex-Girlfriend

She wanted to be expected?

Wait.... a 13 girl sent naked pictures? WTF?!

no kidding, what does that even mean! Maybe these youngens need to have their phones taken away, it's brutal to see 5-10 year olds texting on their cells...

probably "respected" instead of "expected"...not sure either makes sense though

What amazes me tho is how stupid these kids are. I mean, kids are usually stupid, but this is getting out of hand! You would think after the 100 million negative stories about the dangers and punishments of sexting some teens would get it...

This is retarded. How can a person spreading pictures of another person THEIR OWN AGE be convicted of child pornography? There should be an age difference factor when it comes to charges like this. A 40 year old man sending 13 year old girl pictures is completely different than a 14 year old boy doing it. They are essentially going to ruin these kid's lives.

Also, they need to stop blaming other people for stupid people's mistakes. It's the girls own fault she took the picture and sent it in the first place. Deal with the consequences.

In a society where "popularity+success > self-respect" and "sex = pupularity+success" anyone will conclude "sex > self-respect". Pfff identity and personality are so over-rated these days!

Wow the registered sex offender registry is fixing to be watered down. By this definition, way over half of kids in High School these days are sex offenders. This happens ALL the time. I think I've seen nude pix of every girl every one of my friend saw naked when I was in High School.

The guys did what almost any 14 year old would do. By sending it to one person she surely knew it would have adverse affects if they ever broke up. Forcing a 14 year old to register as a sex offender is just outrageous.

It is supposed to say "accepted", not expected. Tom's can't even copy quotes correctly.

This is getting out of hand - ruin kids lives b/c of a naked picture. They'd be better off dealing drugs or stealing a car. Being charged as a sex offender will follow them around until the day they die.

I think both the Mother and Daughter should be charged with "idiocy" and serve 100 hours community service.

What utter nonsense. Take the kids phones away and tell them not to do it again - end of story.

Yeah, I love when you're in your teens and its illegal to look at naked people your own age. That makes you a child porn pedophile.

I love how the mom is claiming they did it to harm her. Because god forbid guys forward naked pictures girl they're dating to their buddies to show off.

Parents are to blame also. The mother should be aware of the childs activites, especially when it comes to cameras and computers. Other wise, bad things like this will happen.

Once everyone is a registered sex offender, we can throw away the whole retarded witch-hunting system.

Trying to apply child pornography law to children is just being silly. The whole thing came up as an effort to prevent the exploitation of children BY ADULTS, not the children themselves.

If a girl under 19 (or whatever the age is) sends a naked picture of themselves, voluntarily, then how do you classify that as exploitation? Furthermore, the recipient merely received what they sent, they had no part in its creation.

Don't get me wrong, I completely sympathize with the pain and humiliation that such a picture can bring to an individual, but trying to criminalize another person for their actions (especially a child's) needs to seriously be re-thought.

If you're arresting the children, the mother of the girl should be arrested as well. Allowing her child to become a porn star is criminally negligent in my book. The mother says her daughter made a mistake, but she made the bigger one by not keeping tabs on her child. A 13 year-old should not be 'dating' and should not be left unsupervised for the length of time it would take for a naked picture to be taken, especially with an individual that they claim to have an emotional attachment to.

The mother made a mistake, the daughter made a mistake, the boyfriend and other children made a mistake. How come only the latter are being punished, and unjustly at that?

This is getting ridiculous. Cellphones are tools, not toys. If a parent thinks a child should have one so that contact can be made in case of an emergency, remove the frills and make it only do what it's needed for. At the very least remove the text-message and data features, at least until our children start having phone sex.

By their definition, shouldn't the girl also be accused of distributing child porn as well?

i like how technology has merely brought to light the behavior of children as it has always been. I knew kids that were experimenting sexually in 3rd grade and knew kids who were actually having sex in 6th grade. Anyone who acts surprised at this kind of stuff is just purely retarded living in some stupid Beaver Cleaver version of reality.

I didn't even have a cell phone when I 13.

Shouldnt the girl also be charged with distributing child pornography, in the literal sense of how the prosecution is reading the laws? If not, girls can run around taking pictures of themselves and sending them to whoever they want with no reprocussions... and if the girl ever becomes really pissed at the guy she sent the pic to, all she needs to do is tell someone that he as a nude pic on his phone, or even better take the phone from him and send the saved picture to his friends (guys dont delete pictures like that, if we get them), and boom, revenge complete. gg hf.

They need to figure out some legitimate legislation for this kind of stuff.

Grouping it together as "child pornography" just isn't fair at all. I know that some records go away when you turn 18, but child pornography implies that it was pornographic in nature and child pornography applies to adults, not 13 year olds.

This is a clear case, as well as others, just how far these sex laws have been taken out of hand. I got nothing wrong with what they were meant to do, but now cause of the lack of foresight in writing them everyone no matter their age can be charged with a sex offense and have to register which, in the end as already been mentioned, could make the registration a mute point.

I mean really, charging someone underage with child porn and making them registar all for a pic of someone their own age makes no sense. Not saying it is right or wrong, just the common sense has flown right out the window by not just the kids but the authorities themselves.

Imo. The problem is that too many are looking at the letter of the law and not the heart of the law. If you look at the heart of the law you would know it was never to be taken this far.