Comments on: “Teens prosecuted for racy photos” https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/03/teens-prosecuted-for-racy-photos/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:47:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: Erisian23 https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/03/teens-prosecuted-for-racy-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-6241 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:47:28 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4622#comment-6241 FYI – Overlawyered is now the first search result returned by Google for the term “porongarphy”. I suspect it’s safe to assume that’s preferable to Overlawyered being the first result for the correct spelling.

]]> By: jb https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/03/teens-prosecuted-for-racy-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-6240 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:51:02 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4622#comment-6240 Because the damage to the kids from seeing eachother naked, or even from other kids seeing them naked, is worse than the damage from their being convicted of a sex offense.

Welcome to bizarro-world, let me grow my goatee.

]]> By: Todd Rogers https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/03/teens-prosecuted-for-racy-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-6239 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:02:49 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4622#comment-6239 Orwell would shed a tear were he around for this one.

]]> By: Colin P. Varga https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/03/teens-prosecuted-for-racy-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-6238 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:10:48 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4622#comment-6238 It is the judge’s assertion that the photos sent from one individual to another could then leave the private confines of these two individuals and become public, this is the wrong application of justice.

]]> By: Deoxy https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/03/teens-prosecuted-for-racy-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-6237 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:14:52 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4622#comment-6237 Yet another ridiculous case of laws poorly thought out and badly enforced, with the added bonus of being on a subject where our laws are from a time when certain behaviours were still viwed as wrong (whether one agrees with the changes or not, one cannot disagree that th government is suggesting, aiding, abetting, and condoning the very behaviour it then prosecutes: schools giv out condoms, take girls for abortions in some cases, etc, while the police are trying to arrest people for same).

One last point: anyone taking bets on whether there would have ben proscution if the age/gender rlationship were reversed (she 17, he 16)?

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