Sadly, this is more common than I thought it was. Just last week my thirteen year old niece told me that a girl in her school was ridiculed and then arrested for "sexting". It seems as though she thought it would be hot to send a full body nude photo of herself to a boy but little did she realize that that boy would forward that text to his friends, his friends to their friends, and so on. It is such an embarrassing and traumatizing experience for any teen to go through. The school administration ended up telling everyone who had the picture in their phone that they would also be prosecuted for child pornography if the photo was not immediately deleted.
I feel terrible for the girl, but at 13 I remember being smart enough not to do such a dumb thing. She just didn't analyze the consequences. I think she served well as an example for all the other teens who thought about doing it or have done it and gotten away with it.
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Sadly, this is more common than I thought it was. Just last week my thirteen year old niece told me that a girl in her school was ridiculed and then arrested for "sexting". It seems as though she thought it would be hot to send a full body nude photo of herself to a boy but little did she realize that that boy would forward that text to his friends, his friends to their friends, and so on. It is such an embarrassing and traumatizing experience for any teen to go through. The school administration ended up telling everyone who had the picture in their phone that they would also be prosecuted for child pornography if the photo was not immediately deleted.
I feel terrible for the girl, but at 13 I remember being smart enough not to do such a dumb thing. She just didn't analyze the consequences. I think she served well as an example for all the other teens who thought about doing it or have done it and gotten away with it.
December 22, 2009 - 5:54amThis Comment
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