Teen: I took racy photos because there's no sex-ed at our school

The 17-year-old boy used his no-sex-ed defense after nearly 150 close-up photos of females' bodies were found on his cell phone. The females were clothed in the photos, but they appeared to be taken without their consent. (Last story in the round-up.) (Austin American-Statesman)

Comments

[lester]

why is it against the law to take pictures of girls with a cellphone? it's not like it's child porn or anything.

[LimeGreenLizard]

Huh? Photos taken close up, no mention of up-skirt shots, etc. Sounds like he was shooting booty shots from behind, which isn't decent, but surely not against the law.

What about the BK woman with the cup in her sweaty cleavage-of-eternity? Did they have to get her permission?

I call creepy. (Perhaps. A nice tush and generous hips are eye candy to me.) But not illegal.

[Krash]

Hey, it's Austin, TX.
They have a severe Identity crisis.
They don't know if they're Liberal or
Conservative, and act like they never
heard of libertarian.

If this is upheld, it will put Private
Investigators out of business, and force
law-abiding cops to get a warrant for
surveillance.

[thomas]

What's next?
A review process by the content police before letters can be submitted at OS&RR??

Apologies to Texas readers here, but damn,,,,,,,,,spread legs,,extract heads.

[MidtownCoog]

Three cheers for the last straight boy in Austin!

hip, hip hurray!

[Sigh]

Well in Austin's defence, if this story had been about Wisconsin, the pictures would have been taken of bodies in his freezer.

[Bill]

@LGL and lester

The reason he took pictures of these girls with their clothes on is due to the lack of sex education at his HS. How was he to know there was something underneath?

[jj]

So, when he shoots someone, is that because they don't teach hunter safety classes?

[johnjohn]

Couple of things -

If the girls were on public property, no consent needed.

Also, Lake Travis is not really Austin, it is one of these little conservate burbclaves that surrounds the city.

[Phranqlin]

That's a lame excuse for being mildly pervy. But taking pictures of girls is legal as long as the photos were taken in a public place and the girls weren't unclothed.

[Lambiepie]

BS-o-meter at maximum

[RockyMtnMac]

If they can't ID the girls to ask about consent, how is it a crime?
A picture of someone's a$$, fully clothed, walking away?
Enough already! This is STUPID!

[Farmer Bob and the City]

Sterilize him.