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Stupid kid tricks now increasingly called sex crimes

View the article here 02/13/2009 By REKHA BASU Sex crimes are among the most abhorrent. They can shatter security, damage trust and invade a victim's core being. Rapists and pedophiles deserve tough sentences and treatment. If that doesn't reform them, they should be kept away from society. It's unfortunate, then, that, in their quest to crack down on sex offenses, prosecutors and legislators are going off on pointless tangents that risk trivializing them. Ask the young man who was a 17-year-old Sioux City, Iowa, high school student last year when he shot a racy 10-second video of himself and a girlfriend on his cell phone. At age 18, he texted it to a friend. Evidently he had his pants down, making visible his private parts. It was a careless, immature thing to do -- though maybe not so surprising in a culture that seems to prolong adolescence and encourages everyone to broadcast their most private thoughts and actions...continue to full post

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