Current Events-What the Hell is the Matter with Us?

A 14 year old girl is being brought up on child porn charges because she sent naked pics of herself on her cell to a boy. Yes...she is being prosecuted by authorities for this...on child porn charges.

OK...what the hell is wrong with us? Look, I totally get the dangers involved in this little girl doing this. Once she sends this image out, she no longer has ANY control over it. It easily could be spread around virally, end up in pedophiles hands, distributed on child porn sites on the internet...I get that. She needs to be talked to and worked with on this issue. But to charge her with child pornography? That is the solution?

As long as there has been adolescence, boys and girls have played the game of "I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours." Whether it was called "playing house" or "playing doctor" or spin the bottle, that is part and parcel of adolescence. But nowadays we have some interesting technology...tech that we let all these horny teenagers have. Hmmmm...what a surprise...they start sharing images that are a bit nasty. Throw in that we have increasingly accepted sexuality as part of our advertising and entertainment medium...what do we expect?

So our solution to protect this 14 year old girl from perverts is to charge her with child pornography? A charge that could put her on a sexual predators list for the REST of her life. It will mess up any chance she has to get into a good college...How does THAT look to the dean of admissions? "Hmmm....very good, 4.0 GPA, nice profile, into child porn...let's get her on campus!" Are we trying to ruin her life forever because of some raging hormones and a teenage crush?

This reeks of Orwellian theory all around. "Peace is War"---lets try "Protection is Prosecution" or "To Protect You We Will Jail You"

This is a 14 year old girl who took pictures of herself. Back in my day they had Polaroids...we did it then too...the images were just not saved on a phone. This is so frickin' stupid, such an excess of power, and just plain dumb!

I'll ask again: What the hell is the matter with us?