Comments on: Sexting Your Way To Prison

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:45:59 +0000

I agree with most of the post. I don't think the kid deserves to be registered as a child molester when clearly that is not the case. I have teens male and female and would hope they wouldn't make this same mistake. However if my daughter was stupid enough to send a naked photo to another young stupid teen I don't think she should be surprised by any possible outcome. People on these boards amaze me of what they expect from our teens. And though my memory is not at it's best I can remember some of my teenage years and though I didn't take any new photos (at least I hope not) I did do things that as an adult I wouldn't be proud of or want known. We never had the ease of communication and the technology that exist today and it adds even more temptations for our teens. Why can't we focus on locking up the child molesters , the murderers , the stalkers and try and offer more sympathy to these young kids who for the most part don't even know they have committed a crime. Putting all these kids as sex offenders is just going to confuse me and everyone else. I for one want to know when I look up sex offenders in my neighborhood that it shows me the sick men who have molested young children. I'm not interested in the 18 and 16 year old who were having consensual sex. Wake up! 16 year old's are having sex and it has been going on for more years than you or I have been living. Bravo for the ones who wait, but I think that is a small minority in this day and age. And back to the question if my daughters boyfriend posted a nude photo of her that she was stupid enough to send? What would be the point with kids today they would probably be back together the first one was printed. I think it would be nice to stamp both their foreheads with young and stupid and make them wear it for a month! Now the punishment fits the crime.

By: friend

friend — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:18:21 +0000

he can't get a degree online, he's not allowed the internet

By: friend

friend — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:16:33 +0000

I was friends with philip in high school. Honestly a great guy. I'm a girl, and he never tried to harm me. I think it's ridiculous he can't use the internet. It's as if he's fallen off the face of the earth. Really sad, he made this mistake, and isn't able to progress past it because of our warped legal system.

By: One_Real_Parent

One_Real_Parent — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:20:49 +0000

As I have read over these post, I have come to realize one thing and that is that we have become a very weak. How many parents on here would love to see their daughter posted on a co-workers phone? would you be able to handle that? The law is the law for a reason and I have no sympathy for anyone that post post pics of kids period. This kid knew what he was doing when he sent the nude email out. For that fact alone he has broken the law. This boy sent these pics out because he was mad at her, awww let's give him a pass, slap his wrist, hmmm. naw let him be treated as the adult he thought he was when he pressed send on his phone. You guys kill me. We as parents, number one need to stop being punks and raise our kids and teach them that these things are wrong and you can go to jail behind this mess. Oh wait I have it now since we don't want the kids to be charged, CHARGE THE PARENTS!!!

By: onaneedtoknowbasis

onaneedtoknowbasis — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:51:46 +0000

The law is flawed. To have a sex offender tag with you for pretty much most of your working career is going to do more damage to this kid than anything. The kid does deserve some type of punishment but with the sex offender tag how many good jobs will he be turned down for because of it? So, lets say he can make a decent living and he has a wife and kid and needs to find a way to make money… could this sex offender tag lead him down a path of crime? It certainly could.

Let's look at the long term ramifications of the consequences and see if what he did really fits the crime. He did not murder someone, he did not rape someone, he sent out a picture that the girl posed for. Couldn't we turn this around and say the girl should have fully understood the consequences when she posed for the picture?

By: bobfromaccounting

bobfromaccounting — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:33:51 +0000

this is for that guy that says he has no sympathy for this kid. We as a people need to dislodge big brother from out our asses and become a free nation again! this kid should of been spanked by his parents and that is it. what he did embarrassed his GF but should not end him up on the sex offender registry. that registry is for serious rapists and chomos not stupid kids. several people on that registry have been murdered by vigilantes. The police give out your address and work address to the general public and then drunken rednecks can come on by and kill you. this may be ok for the serial child molester but not for this kid! Moving on, the girl who was charged with distribution of child porn by taking a picture of herself and sending it to her BF…WTF are you all retarded! she was the Victim!!! can a murderer be put in jail if the one he killed was himself? if this is what the sheep of this country think is justice then i say we burn this bitch down and start over!

By: davidh

davidh — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:49:09 +0000

danm, your equation is flawed. Most of the examples you gave were people of adult age who aren’t the point of the story. A 30 year old and a 22 year old, a 40 year old with a 27 year old, and even a 50 year old with a 29 year old AREN’T illegal or sick. They are all consenting adults. Stick to the facts in the story and the law, not your idea of what is or isn’t appropriate.

By: danm

danm — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:21:31 +0000

there’s an old rule that determines appropriate sexual age differences … take half the older person’s age and add 7. So a 30-year-old with a 22-year-old … OK, you’re stretching it, but all fair … 40-year-old with a 27-year-old … 16-year-old with a 15-year-old, 20-year-old with a 17-year-old … all these are good. But if you’re a 50-year-old with, say, a 29-year-old, c’mon, dude, that’s just sick!

seems like this rule could easily be added to child sex laws in a way that doesn’t exonerate the truly inappropriate (or illegal), yet doesn’t paint a scarlet letter for near-life on kids being kids.

By: Proud G

Proud G — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:16:17 +0000

The kid deserves some kind of punishment. BUT not as a sex offender. Kids today have no concept of hurting people and doing some kind of community service should be part of the plan here. Heck, if this is the case then adultery, which a good deal of our politicians are guilty of, should be classified as a sex offense, thus with the mark of Cain.

By: DVD Movie Club

DVD Movie Club — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:13:34 +0000

Feel sorry for the kid in that last video at the bottom… there should definitely be some kind of punishment for what he did but nothing like what he's had to go through.

By: candicemm

candicemm — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:12:36 +0000

Are you serious??!!!! It does not fit the crime!
-That boy made a mistake. Everyone does!! There are worst people out there. He did not have common sense when sending those pictures. I get that. I understand he should be punished but to be registered? Seriously?? Its not right.
-Where is the mother of the child?? Do kids now have no morals, values, or self respect? If she didn't want her pictures to b out why take them? I would of spank the girl for such stupidity!
-The girl has to be also responsible for her actions!!

By: bob whacker

bob whacker — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:28:05 +0000

what the fuck are u talking about… im sure he did not know that he was commiting a crime when he sent out those pictures. this is ignorance and is completely amoral.

By: Dan | Ask Dan & Jenn

Dan | Ask Dan & Jenn — Mon, 11 May 2009 04:37:58 +0000

Hmmm… Sad stuff, makes you wonder.

It's easy to sit back and shake your head at "how stupid kids can be". But that misses the bigger point, that's not what this is about. Kids (by definition) have always done stupid stuff and they will always continue to do stupid stuff. As do grown-ups for that matter.

But prosecuting these types of cases (silly kids as sex offenders) is asinine and irresponsible on the part of the adults prosecuting them. This story is about really bad judgment on the part of the supposed adults prosecuting and judging, not the kids being silly kids and not thinking.

Seriously – prosecuting children as Sex Offenders? Let's recap… these laws were enacted and intended ONLY to Protect Children (or adults) From Real Sexual Predators. Not to prosecute those very children pretending they were the monsters we were trying to protect them from.

This very idea spits in the faces of those abused children that the laws were created to protect.

What we need is for people to stand up and say "wait folks, this is really, really dumb. we need to get this B.S. fixed before we put more teens in jail for being teens". Let's call it "engage brain before judging".

As a society we're certainly "growing up"… women can vote (let's not forget – it's only been 60 years), people of different colors can share water fountains (again, not that long ago), we're not stoning people who have different faiths anymore (well, not in most part of the world). But there's a lot of growing left to do. As a society we're very much still in our "teen years" where we think we know it all… and we don't.

Have an awesome day!
Dan (Ask Dan & Jennifer)

By: bob

bob — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:27:46 +0000

While I don't agree that you should NEVER pose nude for your man, the rest of your comment was great. With all the porn out there on the internet, it's nice to walk in on your man fapping to pics of you