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Another article makes this case seem highly ridiculous:
Teen who posted own photo charged with child porn
Monday, March 29, 2004
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
State police have charged a 15-year-old Latrobe girl with child pornography for taking photos of herself and posting them on the Internet.
Police said the girl, whose identity they withheld, photographed herself in various states of undress and performing a variety of sexual acts. She then sent the photos to people she met in chat rooms.
A police report did not say how police learned about the girl. They found dozens of pictures of her on her computer.
She has been charged with sexual abuse of children, possession of child pornography and dissemination of child pornography.
Police said they are trying to identify all the people who received photos from the girl.
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A couple years ago in my area there was a case in which several 16 y/o and one 14 y/o high school teens skipped class, went to one of their homes, and photographed each other "messing around" in the nude. The cops somehow stumbled across the pictures and charged all of the 16 y/os (girls included) with child pornography related charges for involving the 14 y/o. I say, let kids be kids. These laws are meant to keep ADULTS from exploiting children, not kids experimenting with each other (or in Latrobe girl's case, herself). Now all of these kids will have to register as sexual offenders (because they're juveniles, I don't think they're going to be stuck with having to admit they committed a felony for the rest of their lives).
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