https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...s-child-porn-charges-for-sending-nude-selfie/
Makes perfect sense. We in the U.S. love, love, love our war on drugs which punishes people for "self victimization". This is no different.
A 14-year-old girl is facing charges in Minnesota juvenile courts that could lead to her being placed on a sex offender registry—all for taking a nude selfie and sending it to a boy at her school. Prosecutors say that she violated Minnesota's child pornography statute, which bans distributing sexually explicit pictures of underaged subjects.
But a legal brief filed this week by the ACLU of Minnesota says that this is ridiculous. Charging a teenager for taking a nude selfie means the state is charging the supposed victim—an absurd result that the legislature can't have intended when it passed Minnesota's child pornography statute, the ACLU argues.
Makes perfect sense. We in the U.S. love, love, love our war on drugs which punishes people for "self victimization". This is no different.