Teen Faces Child Porn Charges For Tweeting Nude ‘Selfie’

[R. Richard]

Let's see if I have this right. A child is forced to attend school. However, the school fails to tell the child that tweeting nude selfies is illegal, child porn? What is it that I'm paying taxes to teach the child? That Columbus discovered the new world (a damn lie)? That a child can get a god job by reading The Merchant of Venice (a damn lie)? The scum bags arrested the child. What did the scumbags do with the teachers who failed to educate the child (the scumbags to busy pimpin' fo' they mama.)

Va. Teen Faces Child Porn Charges For Tweeting Nude ‘Selfie’
February 7, 2014 3:48 PM

JAMES CITY COUNTY, Va. (CBSDC) – A local teenager is facing child pornography charges after police say she shared nude photographs of herself on the social networking site Twitter.

According to WAVY, the unnamed 16-year-old suspect took “selfies” in which she was not wearing clothing, then shared them online at the end of last month.

Officials with the James City County Police Department told the station that teenagers sometimes fail to grasp the severity of the situation when publicly sharing private materials.

“It’s not just friends that see what they post but also strangers and everyone else out there,” Stephanie Williams-Ortery, a representative of the department, told WAVY. “You have no idea who’s out there watching. You never know who’s going to see what you post.”

A school resource officer was informed of the then-publicly available photographs’ lewd nature, and talked with both the teen and her mother about the situation.

Authorities then confiscated her phone and charged her with one count of distribution of child pornography.

The matter could become a criminal one with the potential of jail time, though experts who spoke with WAVY said that she will likely have to complete a Sexting Education program.

Officials hope a lesson has been learned by the teenager — and by others around her age — either way.

“I would hope that they would not then forward it on to their friends because then they become guilty also of distribution of child pornography, whether they know that or not,” Williams-Ortery was quoted as saying

 

[lovecraft68]

You think it should be up to the school to tell a kid not to send nude pics?

And exactly what do you think the parents should be doing these days?

That shit needs to be caught and straightened out at home. The schools are supposed to give kids an education not be a moral compass.

You're letting the parents off the hook here and honestly the kid probably does it because mommy and daddy probably spend all day FB and twitter instead of paying attention to what their kid is doing.

As for the charges? I think its the right thing to do. Sending pics of underage kids even if it is the kid themselves doing it is child porn and needs to be prosecuted in someway.

maybe that will put a stop to it.

Although I sure as hell would never defend a pedophile what these little darlings are doing is egging on someone who is already sick when they post this stuff on the net. Its damn near entrapment

Now seeing they are a minor I think the parents should face charges for negligence.

Maybe they would do their job and watch their kid at that point.

The schools job to tell kids sending nude pics is bad.

man, what are you smoking these days?

 

[sr71plt]

Let's see. You think you sent your child to school for THEM to tell your child that posting nude selfies was against the law? And you were, what, filing your nails and popping chewing gum bubbles at the time?

 

[lovecraft68]

Let's see. You think you sent your child to school for THEM to tell your child that posting nude selfies was against the law? And you were, what, filing your nails and popping chewing gum bubbles at the time?

Well hell just froze over, we agree on something.

Parenting seems to be optional these days.

 

[R. Richard]

I went to school. With the exception of math classes, they never once attempted to teach me anything, except the memorization of lies. They did insist that I tell them what I felt. When I complied with their request, I was punished, because they didn't like my attitude. They insisted that I change my attitude, to something that they liked.
Given the situation, yes, I think that the school should be held accountable.
(By the way, I don't have a child, I have never had a child. The bitch be lying.)

 

[PennLady]

Schools are supposed to teach some things, but they can't teach everything. They need parents to support, reinforce, and initiate on some fronts.

OTOH, kids will do stupid things, because they are kids and their brains have not fully developed yet, and because many cave to peer pressure, and lots of other reasons.

Plenty of parents don't want the schools teaching their kids stuff, especially when it comes to sex. So no, the schools can't do it all.

 

[sr71plt]

Teaching anything else but math is an act of channeling your attitudes, RR. Apparently you didn't get that part when you were in school and were both expecting and rebelling against what you were expecting to be taught. I don't see any questions why they didn't like the attitude you say you exhibited in school.

But that's OK. According to your avatar you grew up to be a very nice werewolf who carries Santa's boot around (making us wonder what you did with the rest of the man).

 

[R. Richard]

Schools are supposed to teach some things, but they can't teach everything. They need parents to support, reinforce, and initiate on some fronts.

I don't know where you went to school, but where I went to school, they claimed to teach 'all knowledge.'

OTOH, kids will do stupid things, because they are kids and their brains have not fully developed yet, and because many cave to peer pressure, and lots of other reasons.

Kids make mistakes. Hopefully, they learn from their mistakes. However, it seems to me to be the responsibilities of the adults who force children into school to at least teach the children not to break the laws that result in prison time or death.

Plenty of parents don't want the schools teaching their kids stuff, especially when it comes to sex. So no, the schools can't do it all.

Lemme see if I got this right, schools employ 'professionals,' to 'teach kids.' However, the 'professionals' take their marching orders from amateurs. A professional who takes marching orders from amateurs is NOT a professional.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

I don't know where you went to school, but where I went to school, they claimed to teach 'all knowledge.'

That's pretty vast. No one is capable of possessing all knowledge.

 

[sr71plt]

You're not a happy person, are you, RR? tsk, tsk.

 

[lovecraft68]

Short of the basics in health class which back in my day spoke of STD's and condoms and that was getting risky for the early eighties, they teach nothing of morality and they should not.

Sending naked pics is a a cry for attention from a girl looking to be popular. Probably the same girl who will pull a train in a blo job party in a closed bathroom so guys will like her.

That behavior comes from lack of attention at home.

We live in a time where most of the 30 something parents want to be 15 again and spend all day acting like asshats on the same sites this girl is posting her pics.

The "I learned it from you" cliche is very accurate these days.

You have parents who live and die by whether or not anyone "liked" their FB post and you get kids like this.

WE just had to suspend a guy at work because he will not stay off facebook during company time. 8 hour day he is spending 3+ hours on it. That's at work can you imagine him at home? And he has three kids between 10 and 16 I'm sure he is very attentive to them

Maybe the parents should be sent back to school to lear to be adults and parents.

And the OP's "Its up to the school" attitude reeks of the problem I am pointing out, parents don;t seem to think they have to do anything today.

hell its now the schools fault kids are obese. They eat one, maybe two meals at school five days a week, rest of th time they're with their parents.

so if the kid is heavy who's fault is it?

must be school.

 

[R. Richard]

Teaching anything else but math is an act of channeling your attitudes, RR. Apparently you didn't get that part when you were in school and were both expecting and rebelling against what you were expecting to be taught. I don't see any questions why they didn't like the attitude you say you exhibited in school.

I also took chemistry. Since I had no idea what they wanted me to do in English class, I had to participate in sports, in order to pass. I had no expectations as to what I was to be taught and I got no sane explanations. As to my attitude, not all of the faculty disliked my attitude. Football coach: "He play that kinda good defense, the way you like to hear!"

As to my math studies, I was doing original work in Diophantine analysis, back in high school. Nobody seemed to have any problem with my attitude regarding Diophantine analysis. When I pointed out the anti-Semitic bias in Merchant of Venice, they had real problems with my attitude.

But that's OK. According to your avatar you grew up to be a very nice werewolf who carries Santa's boot around (making us wonder what you did with the rest of the man).

I find your insinuation that I have no idea of how to dispose of a body, with no trace, insulting.

 

[patientlee]

Yep. Blame the teachers. Obviously the root of all evil.

Am I supposed to tell them that they have to put clothes on before they get on the bus, or just not to take pictures until they put their clothes on? Actually, I could use a list of what I'm supposed to tell them. I only get 43 minutes a day with them. It would be helpful to know EXACTLY what I should be teaching them that is outside of my subject matter. Toothbrushing? Hair combing? Doing laundry? Not to eat the yellow snow?

Oh wait. That's the stuff I teach my own children because I'm a parent. All the good teaching in the world doesn't make up for bad parenting. We only see the kids for 43 minutes, and state tests start next month. You want good kids? Be A GOOD PARENT.

 

[sr71plt]

I find your insinuation that I have no idea of how to dispose of a body, with no trace, insulting.

But why just keep the boot? I suppose that might be a subtle message of what you'll do even to jolly old men wearing red, but you don't seem to be subtle in anything else.

 

[lovecraft68]

But why just keep the boot? I suppose that might be a subtle message of what you'll do even to jolly old men wearing red, but you don't seem to be subtle in anything else.

Its obvious.

he has a foot fetish.

 

[R. Richard]

Yep. Blame the teachers. Obviously the root of all evil.

Am I supposed to tell them that they have to put clothes on before they get on the bus, or just not to take pictures until they put their clothes on? Actually, I could use a list of what I'm supposed to tell them. I only get 43 minutes a day with them. It would be helpful to know EXACTLY what I should be teaching them that is outside of my subject matter. Toothbrushing? Hair combing? Doing laundry? Not to eat the yellow snow?

Oh wait. That's the stuff I teach my own children because I'm a parent. All the good teaching in the world doesn't make up for bad parenting. We only see the kids for 43 minutes, and state tests start next month. You want good kids? Be A GOOD PARENT.

If you want to teach a child mathematics, you assign the child problems and then answer the relevant questions that the child has or give the child help with solving assigned problems at the relevant grade and subject level.

I would expect the same situation in regard to teaching English. I was assigned the problem of reading a poem. I read the poem, The Women of Marblehead. I asked, "The people of the town march back and forth, why?" Answer, "Outrage," "Outrage over what?" Answer, "There was a shipwreck." "I missed that. Where did it state that?" Answer, "People, back in those days knew that there had been a shipwreck." "Because people back in those days, knew that there had been a shipwreck, I'm supposed to know that there had been a shipwreck a couple of centuries ago?" "R. Richard, your attitude is very poor." "Listen, you fat, stupid, ugly, closet lesbian bitch, I'm trying to learn something here and I want my questions answered."

The result was a trip to the Vice Principal's office, with my question still unanswered. How was I supposed to learn, if I didn't get my questions answered? (The Vice Principal wouldn't answer my questions, he was afraid that I might kill him. So, he would just send me back to the fat, stupid, ugly, closet lesbian bitch (a real shining example for the girls in the class.)

 

[JKendallDane]

Let's see...a parent gives a hormone raging teenager a cell fone capable of creating virtual Playboy (or Playgirl) pictures, and videos to rival a remake of 'Behind the Green Door' and then are shocked when they do? And want to blame the results on the schools??? Get real!

Sure a large part of the problem stems from peer pressure, but the ultimate finger pointing must be at parents who have abdicated the throne of responsibilty when it comes to their kids.

 

[patientlee]

If you want to teach a child mathematics, you assign the child problems and then answer the relevant questions that the child has or give the child help with solving assigned problems at the relevant grade and subject level.

I would expect the same situation in regard to teaching English. I was assigned the problem of reading a poem. I read the poem, The Women of Marblehead. I asked, "The people of the town march back and forth, why?" Answer, "Outrage," "Outrage over what?" Answer, "There was a shipwreck." "I missed that. Where did it state that?" Answer, "People, back in those days knew that there had been a shipwreck." "Because people back in those days, knew that there had been a shipwreck, I'm supposed to know that there had been a shipwreck a couple of centuries ago?" "R. Richard, your attitude is very poor." "Listen, you fat, stupid, ugly, closet lesbian bitch, I'm trying to learn something here and I want my questions answered."

The result was a trip to the Vice Principal's office, with my question still unanswered. How was I supposed to learn, if I didn't get my questions answered? (The Vice Principal wouldn't answer my questions, he was afraid that I might kill him. So, he would just send me back to the fat, stupid, ugly, closet lesbian bitch (a real shining example for the girls in the class.)

I'm not saying that you had good teachers. It's obvious that you had a sub par educational experience. I don't see how your poetry example supports the claim that the teachers are responsible for the student's poor judgement.

And this is just a guess, but I would think your question went unanswered because of HOW you asked, rather than WHAT you asked. If you speak in the same tone that you write in this forum, I imagine that people are on the defensive when you talk. Doesn't bring out the best in people.

 

[R. Richard]

I'm not saying that you had good teachers. It's obvious that you had a sub par educational experience. I don't see how your poetry example supports the claim that the teachers are responsible for the student's poor judgement.

And this is just a guess, but I would think your question went unanswered because of HOW you asked, rather than WHAT you asked. If you speak in the same tone that you write in this forum, I imagine that people are on the defensive when you talk. Doesn't bring out the best in people.

A student seeks to learn. The student's questions are not answered. How is the student expected to learn?

I can assure you that I didn't address my high school teachers in the same tone that I use in this forum. My manner of address to my high school English, history, Spanish teachers was to spit the hate that they pouted down my throat back into their faces. (They wanted to know what I felt and they requested it.) Why did they take it? I was to be the National Merit Scholarship finalist and they were willing to put up with damn near anything to be able to say, "We got one."

 

[PennLady]

I don't know where you went to school, but where I went to school, they claimed to teach 'all knowledge.'

I went to school in a few places in NJ, then college in PA and grad school in DC. At no time do I recall any school claiming to teach "all knowledge." I went to Catholic school, so had religion classes in addition to math, science, etc., but it seems I made out better than you did.

Kids make mistakes. Hopefully, they learn from their mistakes. However, it seems to me to be the responsibilities of the adults who force children into school to at least teach the children not to break the laws that result in prison time or death.

I think all adults with some kind of "teaching" connection to kids -- parents, aunts, uncles, teachers, coaches -- should help in general to teach right from wrong. But a lot of that will be example, not direction. I don't expect my kids teachers to stand up in front of the class and say things like "don't do X or Y" because you'll get arrested.

Lemme see if I got this right, schools employ 'professionals,' to 'teach kids.' However, the 'professionals' take their marching orders from amateurs. A professional who takes marching orders from amateurs is NOT a professional.

No one said pros are taking orders from amateurs. I'm not a teacher, but I can tell you from reading and observing that teachers are caught between a lot of factors. Many parents want the teachers to handle just about every situation, including ones the parents should, and then are actually mad when the teachers step in. I personally think that most teachers are trying to do the best they can with a lot of guidelines and rules to follow, not a few of which probably conflict.

I'm sorry you had such a lousy school experience, but that doesn't mean it applies to everyone.

 

[lovecraft68]

My wife sent me a couple of naughty selfies when she was away at a conference a couple of weeks ago,

I blame her job for her promiscuous behavior.

 

[Saxon_Hart]

This is not the first time something like this has happened. 10 JV cheerleaders from where I used to live have to register as sex offenders because they were snapping pics of each other and sexting them to each other. They avoided federal child porn charges, but they are in fact convicted sex offendewrs. All were under 18.

 

[Saxon_Hart]

My wife sent me a couple of naughty selfies when she was away at a conference a couple of weeks ago,

I blame her job for her promiscuous behavior.

LOL Prepare the brimstone!!!

 

[R. Richard]

My wife sent me a couple of naughty selfies when she was away at a conference a couple of weeks ago,

I blame her job for her promiscuous behavior.

Ummmm, just the job and not the conference?

If your wife is an underage child, I strongly suggest that you read the sad bio of Jerry Lee Lewis.

When I work for others, they want the work that they assign me done in a professional fashion. They don't care if I enjoy or appreciate the work. The schools that I attended didn't seem to care if I learned anything, just if I enjoyed or appreciated the assignments.

If the schools want to play God, then they should be prepared to take responsibility for their creations.

 

[lovecraft68]

Ummmm, just the job and not the conference?

If your wife is an underage child, I strongly suggest that you read the sad bio of Jerry Lee Lewis.

When I work for others, they want the work that they assign me done in a professional fashion. They don't care if I enjoy or appreciate the work. The schools that I attended didn't seem to care if I learned anything, just if I enjoyed or appreciated the assignments.

If the schools want to play God, then they should be prepared to take responsibility for their creations.

Richard, the schools are being forced into playing god.

They now have to change meal plans because parents are too lazy to watch what their kids eat and have to watch every single thing they do because the parents no longer do anything.

I suppose cyber bullying is the school's fault to right? because the school, not the parents, must be liable for what the little assholes are typing on their computer from home.

It is up to the parents to tell their kids "hey, don;t send nude pics of yourself." But that would take effort and maybe even taking their phone away and then spending time making sure they are obeying you and...

man, that is a lot to ask of a parent.