In March of this year, a 14-year-old girl was charged with child pornography. This was not the only story; there were others, all with similar charges. Some teens were even forced to register as sex offenders for posting or sending nude pictures of themselves.
More recently, an Ohio judge sentenced a local teen for the same charges as the teens previously mentioned. The kicker? The punishment was writing a paper detailing the dangers of sexting.
What do you think about this punishment? Should it have been harsher? Was it the perfect punishment for the crime? Was it too much?
Not addressed at all in either punishment is the potential social stigma attached to this act. What happens when this teen wants to become a school teacher, politician or high level executive for a company? Since things are never actually deleted from the Internet, will these pictures come back to haunt what could have been a great President of the United States or President of the PTA?
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