Submittard: "Go 'Murica"

You know how I know you're retarded, subby?

I feel much safer having this dangerous, kiddie diddling, child porn distributing, sexual predator on a list that will keep him from raping my children.

He was 18 and an adult. The law presumes one of 18 years of age is of the age of legal capacity. You can vote, you can enlist in the military and go off to a foreign land and kill people, and I think you should be able to buy alcohol and lottery tickets. As far as the law is concerned, he should have been aware of the law and the consequences of his actions. It was stupid, it was immature, and unfortunately for him, it was felonious. Welcome to adulthood, pal.

FTFA

"It's a new phenomena," Walters said. "Kids shouldn't be doing this - shouldn't be engaging in this type of behavior. But using these harsh criminal laws for child pornography is a bit of overkill."

Oh my god a voice of reason!

Nooooooooo!

Think of the children!!!!

He send naked pictures of her to her parents and Grandmother? Can't we just create a lifetime dumbass registry? We could call it Georgy's law.

baka-san: It's a new phenomena,

I call BS on this. Polaroid cameras have been around for a long time and normal cameras for even longer before that. Before that they had sketch pads. Teenagers have always been horny. There's no way this is a new occurrence. Our laws are just now ridiculous enough to make it a crime.

7of7: baka-san: It's a new phenomena,

I call BS on this. Polaroid cameras have been around for a long time and normal cameras for even longer before that. Before that they had sketch pads. Teenagers have always been horny. There's no way this is a new occurrence. Our laws are just now ridiculous enough to make it a crime.

Polaroid...expensive,

Normal cameras...unless you have a darkroom, you have to get someone else to develop the film.

You fail and need to get off my lawn.

Must be a union prosecutor. Only they would do something like this!


/As an aside, this is not just a failure of law enforcement and the legal system. This is a failure of parents as well to instill even a modicum of common sense about the severity and consequences of sexual pictures. But then again, our society reinforces it up until the point of no return, so it's a crapshoot on their part as well.

7of7: baka-san: It's a new phenomena,

I call BS on this. Polaroid cameras have been around for a long time and normal cameras for even longer before that. Before that they had sketch pads. Teenagers have always been horny. There's no way this is a new occurrence. Our laws are just now ridiculous enough to make it a crime.

Nudity amongst teenagers is hardly a new phenomena as you said. However, the ability to transfer it en masse with ease is.

/Also, far more people have the ability to take said pictures. Cameras weren't necessarily available to everyone back in the day.

7of7: baka-san: It's a new phenomena,

I call BS on this. Polaroid cameras have been around for a long time and normal cameras for even longer before that. Before that they had sketch pads. Teenagers have always been horny. There's no way this is a new occurrence. Our laws are just now ridiculous enough to make it a crime.

It's been a crime for a long time. It's just easier to catch dumbasses who mass email the contraband than it would be if he had a box of Polaroids stashed under his bed.

I don't get it. But ascii pr0n has never turned me on.

This is so silly, ruining lives because someone forwarded a picture of their naked sex partner. Teens have been doing this for ages, it's just easier to share now thanks to technology. Without evidence of something more, we all know there wasn't an intent to distribute child porn -- it was just a guy showing his buddies nude photos of his girlfriend (though the guy who sent the nudes to his grandparents is a little strange).

All it does is water down all the sex offender status reports (or whatever they're called). I do not care about the sex offender across the street who emailed nude photos of his girlfriend when they were both teens, even if one was 18 at the time.I do care if the friendly old man around the block can be a little too friendly with children -- that's the guy I want to be warned about.

Why not just put all men and all ugly women on the sex offenders' list and be done with it? It seems like this will eventually happen anyway, so why waste time in doing this?

/the list is useless
//also, the guy is an idiot for sending n00dz of his (probably now ex-)GF to his grandparents

damageddude: Without evidence of something more

It was a revenge blast to everyone she knows, he was begging for trouble.

Still, if he has to register for sending the pictures, shouldn't she?

My original thought was if she was legal to have sex with then why is it illegal to have a naked photograph of her. Then, I looked up Florida's age of consent. Sorry dude, your screwed. It was a douchenozzle move emailing those pics anyway. Just post them anonymously on a website like everyone else does.

Ennuipoet: My original thought was if she was legal to have sex with then why is it illegal to have a naked photograph of her. Then, I looked up Florida's age of consent. Sorry dude, your screwed. It was a douchenozzle move emailing those pics anyway. Just post them anonymously on a website like everyone else does.

Yeah, he was a dumbass for his actions. But, he got whacked by a really big stick meant for dangerous, repeat felons. The sex offender laws are too extreme and messing up too many lives nationwide.

Here's a thought: If you don't want the entire world to see naked pictures of yourself, don't let someone take naked pictures of you!

CruiserTwelve: Here's a thought: If you don't want the entire world to see naked pictures of yourself, don't let someone take naked pictures of you!

Too much common sense......can't take it.....

/head explodes.

Nabb1: and lottery tickets

Where do you live that you can't buy lotto tickets at 18? That was one of the first things I did when I turned 18 for shiats and giggles just because I could.

uhh ohh. another poll we can take over

Did they bust the ex-girlfriend for transmitting the photos to him in the first place?

If a girl is hot enough I would tell close and personal friends that I'd fark her in front of my grandmother. Not sure if this relates, just wanted to share.

The guy was 18 and sent pictures of his 16 year old EX-girlfriend to her family and a bunch of other people (70) in total. It's one thing to possess nude pictures of our girlfriend, it's another thing totally to send nude pictures of her to a bunch of people as an act of revenge in order to humiliate her. Especially if you're 18 and she's underage.

Dumbass is the more appropriate tag for this kid.

There should be an informational article to explain what a teen should do if his GF sends him pictures of herself naked.

...well, the SECOND thing he should do...

text in question

This is the most retarded headline I have ever seen.

ShillinTheVillain: The guy was 18 and sent pictures of his 16 year old EX-girlfriend to her family and a bunch of other people (70) in total. It's one thing to possess nude pictures of our girlfriend, it's another thing totally to send nude pictures of her to a bunch of people as an act of revenge in order to humiliate her. Especially if you're 18 and she's underage.

Dumbass is the more appropriate tag for this kid.

I don't know. That is a pretty hilarious thing to do.

The law mostly uses intent when prosecuting. So if his intent was to be a total jerk, then they would "throw the book" at him.

An in this case, rightly so. He's just an idiot.

The only crime here is that headline! Subby should be put on the text offenders registry!

flucto: He send naked pictures of her to her parents and Grandmother? Can't we just create a lifetime dumbass registry?

Unfortunately, there isn't a UNIX server in the entire world robust enough to handle all of the traffic and records that database would create. Otherwise I'd be right there with you.

After his former girlfriend taunted him, Phillip Alpert remembered the nude photos she e-mailed to him while they were dating.

He took revenge with an electronic blast - e-mailing the photos of the 16-year-old girl to more than 70 people, including her parents, grandparents and teachers.

"I didn't know how bad of a decision it was," Alpert, now 19, said recently at his MetroWest apartment. "I don't think it's fair."

Probably should've thought about what was fair or not when you sent naked photos to someone's parents, teachers, and grandparents, just because she taunted you.

Nabb1: he should have been aware of the law

there are over 10,000 laws on the books in this country, I hope you are aware of them all.

"I didn't know how bad of a decision it was," Alpert, now 19, said recently at his MetroWest apartment. "I don't think it's fair.

There, that's more like it.

The girlfriend should also be charged with distribution of child porn. Assuming she emailed the pictures to her boyfriend.

Theaetetus: After his former girlfriend taunted him, Phillip Alpert remembered the nude photos she e-mailed to him while they were dating.

He took revenge with an electronic blast - e-mailing the photos of the 16-year-old girl to more than 70 people, including her parents, grandparents and teachers.

"I didn't know how bad of a decision it was," Alpert, now 19, said recently at his MetroWest apartment. "I don't think it's fair."

Probably should've thought about what was fair or not when you sent naked photos to someone's parents, teachers, and grandparents, just because she taunted you.

I kind of agree. Usually I'm on the side of the kids getting busted, but this dude is a dumb ass.

7of7: baka-san: It's a new phenomena,

I call BS on this. Polaroid cameras have been around for a long time and normal cameras for even longer before that. Before that they had sketch pads. Teenagers have always been horny. There's no way this is a new occurrence. Our laws are just now ridiculous enough to make it a crime.

And before sketch pads there were the drawings on the cave walls that everyone could see.

Child pron laws predate 9/11 by a few decades.

Nabb1: You can vote, you can enlist in the military and go off to a foreign land and kill people, and I think you should be able to buy alcohol and lottery tickets. As far as the law is concerned, he should have been aware of the law and the consequences of his actions.

There is definitely something to this. Anyone who is dabbling close the edge with erotic content had better be aware of the laws. We don't cut senile old people slack when they crash into farmer's markets. I don't see why this should be necessarily too different. Now....if both kids are underage, I think that's a mitigating issue. Why wasn't the ex-girlfriend charged with creating child porn in this case? In any case, it seems very odd that a person could be charged with creating child porn by voluntarily taking a picture of themselves. Especially if s/he is of driving age, and is legally capable of managing a ton and a half piece of fiberglass and steel in public.

Headso: there are over 10,000 laws on the books in this country, I hope you are aware of them all.

Everyone knows that kiddy porn is a no-no. We could go on forever about how somebody who has a body that just screams "Please fark my brains out!" is by no means a minor, but as the law goes, nekkid minors are right out. Everyone knows this.

He e-mailed pics of his naked ex girlfriend to friends, teachers and family. He's a farking coont.

Don't know how illegal it should be, but I certainly don't feel sorry for him.

Being aware of the laws is something a bit different than emailing a photo of your girlfriend, naked, who was under the age of consent with you when they were taken, and then being registered as a child diddling pedophile for the rest of your farking life for sending them out.

I understand "know the law" but, perhaps, in this situation, the law needs to be changed.

Somacandra: Unfortunately, there isn't a UNIX server in the entire world robust enough to handle all of the traffic and records that database would create. Otherwise I'd be right there with you.

How cool would it be though if you could look on the Dumbass registry and see the stupid shiat your neighbors had done?

Yeah, subby, Murica is a terrible place because possessing and distributing child porn is a crime. DIAF

I see no problem with this.

First off, he's not a 15 year old kid who got a nekkid picture of a girl and forwarded it to his friends and got caught.

Secondly, he's an 18 year old MAN, who has, I assume at least a basic high school education. He got all pissed at his ex girlfriend, who happened to be underage, and in a vengeful act forwarded a bunch of nekkid photos of her to her parents, etc, etc, etc.

This isn't some innocent mistake by some kid who doesn't know better. This was a planned act by a person hell bent on destroying a girls image/reputation just because she pissed him off.

Charging him, convicting him and making him register is appropriate. It would also be appropriate to remove his name from the list after the successful completion of a probation/counseling program.

Either way, he's a farking idiot.

What a moran. There are websites for just this sort of revenge. Just submit the pics to one of them and her underage form will be seen by thousands.

/what, you think they verify age?

I remember a story on dateline or something of a guy in texas who was in a teenage relationship, and the girls parents deccided to punish her for disobeying by calling the police on her boyfriend. the cops arrested him, charged him with statutory rape, and be a registered sex offender for the rest of his life.

the parents tried to call off the cops, out of guilt, but it was a no go. Once it got to the cops, it was out of thier hands.

SOmething like 10 years later, the no longer teenage couple was married to eachother, had three kids together, but the guy STILL has to re register every year as a sex offender.

I dont believe the sex offender registry works.

I think sex crimes- REAL sex crimes, should be dealt with much more harshly, but things like this and the article are just over kill. and cops- they will tell you that its the law and they are jsut doing thier jobs. Yeah, so were the nazis.

Yeah, a 25 year sentence doesn't seem inordinate.

/this guy won't be able to get an education, hold a decent job, date, or live in peace.
//registry is unconstitutional.
///if offenders are that dangerous, lock them up.