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Reeducation for Jersey Sexters
New Jersey legislators, in “recognizing that teenagers who e-mail nude or sexually suggestive photos of themselves to friends aren't really child pornographers,” are proposing an alternative to prosecution.
By: Kerry Howley
Posted: July 24, 2009 at 7:57 AM
New Jersey legislators, in “recognizing that teenagers who e-mail nude or sexually suggestive photos of themselves to friends aren't really child pornographers,” [1] are proposing an alternative to prosecution.
Via Reason’s Katherine Mangu-Ward [2] we learn that New Jersey legislators, in “recognizing that teenagers who e-mail nude or sexually suggestive photos of themselves to friends aren't really child pornographers,” [1] are proposing an alternative to prosecution. If the bill passes, charged sexters will merely be forced to attend a “course focusing on the consequences of such acts.” I fear for any 13-year old girl forced to attend a Jersey-led course justifying the criminalization of her own image, but I guess it’s better than, as the bill’s author puts it, “hauling them off to jail.”
Photograph by George Doyle/Getty Images.
Links:
[1] http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202432466455&NJ_Legislation_Would_Decriminalize_Sexting_by_Teens
[2] http://reason.com/blog/show/135009.html