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Hundreds face charges for having nude photo that girl circulated
At least 200 high school students could face criminal charges for possessing a cell phone picture of a naked student — a photo the girl took herself and shared with friends who forwarded it to others. (Livingston Daily Press & Argus)
October 15, 2008 | Permalink
Comments
Kind of an insidious weapon.
1) Take a nude photo of yourself
2) Send it to your enemies - older boys, teachers, etc
3) Call the cops
Posted by: elchampino | Oct 15, 2008 11:30:43 AM
I call bullshit. Are they bringing up the girl on pornography charges since she solicited the picture of herself?
Posted by: cherie | Oct 15, 2008 11:31:02 AM
What if a student received the picture not wanting it? Would that student get in trouble?
The students could delete the picture but there are still ways of pulling the pictures back up out of the phone if it was sent to them.
Basically, it's not fair to the other students. The girl who took the picture should be mauled. It's her own damn fault for forwarding a picture of herself to "her friends" anyway. What's with these stupid teens?
Posted by: twerp | Oct 15, 2008 11:35:04 AM
conceivably, this thing could (still) spread globally, and than we'll all be in jail except, presumably, people without access to modern technology who would (presumably) be the rest of our's jail guards? Will this be covered at the debate tonight? It seems so much more pressing than the economy...
Posted by: sometimesilie | Oct 15, 2008 11:37:57 AM
"What if a student received the picture not wanting it? Would that student get in trouble? "
yeah, wtf?!
WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTCHHHHHHH-A!
Posted by: | Oct 15, 2008 11:38:44 AM
I knew I had a good reason for having Verizon disable my text messages.
Posted by: G-Man | Oct 15, 2008 11:45:54 AM
What no pic?
Posted by: | Oct 15, 2008 11:49:09 AM
HUHUHUHUH.... I like pictures of naked women! HUHUHUHUHUH
Posted by: Chester the Molester | Oct 15, 2008 11:53:52 AM
"The Livingston County Sheriff's Department has confiscated a dozen phones containing the photograph and is asking any students who have the photo to turn in their cellular phones at the school or Sheriff's Department."
Yeah, LMAO, right, so you can ruin my life by trying me as a sex offender? Stupid pigs (in this case, the moniker fits)
Later in the article a detective says the girl was just "clowning around" when she took photos of her vaginal area.
So production of child pornography is cool, but having someone send it to you, with or without your permission is criminal?
Posted by: sometimesilie | Oct 15, 2008 11:57:08 AM
How bad did she look down there to have a photo of it considered a prank??
Posted by: Reno | Oct 15, 2008 11:59:20 AM
this 14 year old girl should learn a valuable lesson about doing things of this nature, but she won't because instead of any semi-reasonable response, the Sheriff's office is launching yet another whataboutthechildren witch hunt. Too bad these ARE the children.
Posted by: sometimesilie | Oct 15, 2008 11:59:58 AM
if she didn`t want it seen she should`nt have taken it "dumb ass"
Posted by: GATOR | Oct 15, 2008 12:09:34 PM
Can you say "witch hunt," kiddies? I thought you could. This is starting to sound like the infamous daycare satanic abuse trial, in which innocent people's lives were ruined by overzealous prosecutors.
The girl is an assclown for sending around naked pics of herself and should be punished accordingly by the school (not to mention her parents). But I don't think this makes her a kiddie pornographer. Same goes with her classmates who received it on their phones. I'm sure most of them never asked to receive it; are they going to have their lives ruined because someone sent them a picture?
Posted by: Phranqlin | Oct 15, 2008 12:09:53 PM
"Sheriff Bob Bezotte said the 14-year-old girl indicated that she "was clowning around"
Wouldn't "Sheriff Bob Bezotte" be a great name for a clown? He could have a cowboy hat and a biiiiiig squirt gun for uh...uh...
Posted by: nellagain | Oct 15, 2008 12:11:54 PM
"There is good reason to believe it's gone beyond Pinckney boundaries," Bezotte said.
There's good reason to believe that it's on the internet, and never coming down. Once something is digital, you will have a nearly impossible time preventing it from going online. Additionally, if 200 people have it, I'd say there's a 99.9999% chance someone put it online.
Posted by: Joe | Oct 15, 2008 12:14:46 PM
After it goes online, it sucks to be her. Of course, she took the picture herself, wanting the attention.
Well, you got the attention, (insert bad word that rhymes with snitch).
Posted by: twerp | Oct 15, 2008 12:28:29 PM
IF THIS IS NOT A CROCK OF CRAP WHAT IS? ANYONE CAN USE A CELL PHONE AS THEY PLEASE UNLESS THE CONSTITUTION HAS BEEN TOTALLY DESTROYED BY HOMELAND SECURITY. THEN AGAIN THAT MIGHT BE WHAT HAS HAPPENED.
Posted by: | Oct 15, 2008 12:54:49 PM
I just really *hate* the reaction to this. Why confiscate the cell phones? Why not erase the pic? Is the hellish image of 14 yr.-old reproductive parts permanently burned onto the screen in truly diabolical, satanic riot? *hiccupWITCH!hiccup* Where is this going to end? Should we start arresting underagers for looking at themselves naked in the mirror? What about the locker room? Showering for athletics? Am I entitled to remember all the female parts I'd seen on my underage girlfriends prior to the 18th revolution of the earth around the sun? What's the statute of limitations on that?
Posted by: sometimesilie | Oct 15, 2008 12:58:07 PM
Anyone know if she thought she was auditioning for "Girls Gone Wild...puberty edition?"
Posted by: dopeymine | Oct 15, 2008 1:11:01 PM
If an adult reader from this site finds the photo,(I'm still looking) are they subject to prosecution??
Have all these official's brains gone on automatic pilot?
This is way over the top of even reasonable political correctness. We begin to resemble the fanaticism and intolerance of the religious nations we presently occupy.
They win again.
Posted by: thomas | Oct 15, 2008 1:18:17 PM
"A 14-year-old male was charged in juvenile court for sending a picture of his genitals to a classmate he liked...and a 12-year-old girl was charged after taking photographs of her breasts"
"Not only is it illegal, it's extremely dangerous," Morse said. "A predator looks at something like that and considers it an invitation when clearly it's not meant to be."
This is the same zero tolerance ridiculous reductio ad absurdum pseudo-reasoning that gets rape victims locked up in Afghanistan.
Posted by: sometimesilie | Oct 15, 2008 1:32:24 PM
I think the girl had enough of a punishment seeing 200 people and probably more have seen her naked. Dont hate on teenagers you were all young once too, take it from a teen, we are all deff. not perfect. Especially me and my friends were about the opposite of perfect. Girls around my age are just slutty and its probably not going to change anytime soon, trust me I know.
Posted by: DP | Oct 15, 2008 1:38:55 PM
there is only one person to blame here and it is the girl who took a photo of herself. ..stupid
Posted by: angrysockmonkey | Oct 15, 2008 1:40:14 PM
How about charges for intentionally distributing kiddie porn on the lass... or distribution with malicious intent. She can clown that around for a bit.
Posted by: Lou Ford Prefect | Oct 15, 2008 1:44:16 PM
Hey, all you horny perv-o's hit up Detective DP!
Posted by: sometimesilie | Oct 15, 2008 1:47:59 PM
