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OH - ?Sexting? can bring teens child porn charges

View the article here 03/09/2009 By Mike Ford, The Delphos Herald Around the nation, reports are surfacing of teenagers circulating nude photographs of peers on their camera phones. ?Sexting? is just the latest way in which young people are abusing technology. Because the photographed subjects are minors, the issue falls under child pornography laws, which carry felony charges. Many believe a teen having a photo of another adolescent is very different from sexual predators possessing child pornography. Ohio Fourth District Matt Huffman (R-Lima) is among them. ?We shouldn?t blow this out of proportion. There are other things you can charge a kid with and it makes sense for it to be a misdemeanor. There is a difference between a kid having the photo and an adult having it...continue to full post

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