[Erza Scarlet]

So, lets charge this kid for child porn, but possess two pictures of his underage dick! Cops are fucking stupid. I feel like the cops that want to take pictures of his dick should be charged instead.

[lux]

I can just imagine him standing in court trying to get a hard on.

Not imagine, that's wrong, think about. Oh fuck off you know what I mean.

[KrisKrox]

I think they are trying to use this kid as an example so that other kid will stop sexting each other. They are obviously blowing this way out of proportion because they are both underage. In this situation there is really no good solution that could come out from it.

[MiS]

How can he be facing prison time if he can't be prosecuted as an adult yet?

Depending on the circumstances, a minor can be charged as an adult.

[Eclipse]

Wow.This is completely immoral. The majority of teens sext, it's normal! Taking a picture of a kid's boner is just... wow.

[Satan]

I certainly hope they would pay for the therapy he'll need. That's almost towards raping someone.

[Eclipse]

I certainly hope they would pay for the therapy he'll need. That's almost towards raping someone.

Vouch.

This is another reason Britons > 'Muricans

[Crypt]

So even though the girl sent nudes as well, only the guy is facing charges for "manufacturing" it? This fucking pisses me off so much. It's incredibly illogical and ridiculous.

Also, he's being charged for having child pornography but the police want to take pictures of his dick? That honestly made me laugh.

[w00t]

I just feel like the police are over-reacting to this whole thing. Child porn happens everyday, people do and don't get caught. Whether they did or didn't do it, there's no reason for the boy to be charged, yet his girlfriend who did the exact same thing gets no charge at all.

The boy should have some jail time, but not be put onto the sex offender list, not even momentarily. From that, he will learn. You learn from your mistakes. Putting people in jail doesn't make them necessarily learn anything.

If I was someone who is in jail right this moment, I would try and figure out what I did wrong, and go back and do it again. It's human nature, criminals do it too, we don't learn unless we get hurt physically or emotionally to such a degree that we won't do such actions again. I'm not saying he is a criminal, what I'm saying is, this won't teach him anything. This is just putting him through torture thinking it will teach him a lesson. And you people may not see it as torture, but think about it. He just got his entire life ruined by the police, for something millions of people have done.

Now I can't say everything about what is right, wrong, etc. because I've never sent anyone a picture of me in the nude, not even shirtless. So that's all I have to say about the topic.

Murder happens everyday too, and not every murderer gets caught. By your argument, we shouldn't even try.

Unfortunately, that isn't an option. If you're imprisoned for a sex-related offence in the USA, you're put into the registry automatically.

....what? If prison isn't that bad, then why is it even a problem if he goes into it?

How can he be facing prison time if he can't be prosecuted as an adult yet?

Why would he have to be an adult to go to prison? Regardless, it is very possible he is being tried as an adult.

[Smile Cow]

I don't feel like the teens did anything so wrong that it required police involvement. I agree that the police are waaaay out of line for wanting to take a picture of an under-aged teen's dick, to match it to the one in the video, so they can proceed to ruin his life by adding him to the sex offender registry... But what are they supposed to do now this has gone so public? I mostly blame the mother of the girl. She could have stopped it right at the beginning by just having a 3 minute awkward conversation with the teens...