Students threatened with felony charges over yearbook

[Rageaholic]

Two teens were making out in one of the dance pictures, CHILD PORN OH NOZ!!!11

According to this Huffington Post article, they better turn in the yearbooks or face felony charges

Overreaction much?

[HYHYBT]

At MOST borderline. Definitely not something worth recalling the books, much less threatening people with prosecution.

[Racket_Man]

now unfortuneately the article is

USELESS WITHOUT PICS

yes I am being sarcastic. I get the Federal laws defination of child pron even if "accidental" but threatening fellony charges and jail to a bunch of HSers????

I do wonder how many students either took pics of the picture or scanned that page with a table scanner and then turned their book in????

[DrFaroohk]

This week's "Nothing Better To Do" Award goes to the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department!

Just curious who do you blame for this? the photographer who took the picture and didn't notice the kids? the kids who were making out in a school picture? the school staff for not noticing the picture and sending it out to be published? the publisher for not noticing?

[insertNameHere]

apparently, if you read the articles it looks like the guys hand is up her dress..... BUT because it is after all "child pornography" the public is not allowed to see the suspected photo to find out what the hell is the big deal because I bet most of us would go "REALLY?"

Got to love how if a girl is 17 and sends a naked photo to her 17yr old boyfriend, they both can end up going to jail for a sex crime. Aren't the laws supposed to be so, MATURE ADULTS, don't try and abuse the children. Wonder what they will do to students who claim to have burned their yearbook in protest, demand to analyze the ashes?

[Rageaholic]

Got to love how if a girl is 17 and sends a naked photo to her 17yr old boyfriend, they both can end up going to jail for a sex crime. Aren't the laws supposed to be so, MATURE ADULTS, don't try and abuse the children. Wonder what they will do to students who claim to have burned their yearbook in protest, demand to analyze the ashes?

My thoughts exactly. These laws need to change to seperate actual sexual abuse and pedophilia (sp?) from consentual sex. Even if you get squicked out by this stuff, sending teens to jail for something that only affects them is just a waste of jail space and counterproductive. And using that example, if it's not consentual and the girl starts harassing the boy with nude pics of her, the boy can still get in trouble? They would still be unfairly punishing the boy (and jail might be extreme for the girl too). Either way, at least one person would be unnecessarly jailed.

[Ginger Tea]

Seeing as the image (as yet unseen) alleges a hand up skirt shot, well take down cheezeburger networks then, one of their fail pics from way back when was a drunk teen couple with his hand down her pants (as underwear not trousers) and this image unless cropped and magnified wasn't some caught by chance background but a foreground image.

as for 'Sexting' I'll get back to you on that as I'm off to work, but whenever I read the line "won't somebody think of the children?" I always imagine someone saying "I am" *fap*

[Greenday]

Should it be taken out of yearbooks? Yea. But threatening to hit all the kids with child pornography charges? Holy crap that's ridiculous.

[AdminAssistant]

Just curious who do you blame for this?

the school staff for not noticing the picture and sending it out to be published?

You blame the faculty member in charge of the yearbook, and/or the student yearbook editor. I was on yearbook staff, and the student editor AND the faculty adviser were supposed to review all of our pages for content. Somebody dropped the ball here.

[daleduke17]

Seriously, does the State of California do nothing other than come up with insane things like the above, the pet ownership ban, and similar laws?

Maybe Illinois is not the stupidest state in the nation.

[linguist]

Seriously, does the State of California do nothing other than come up with insane things like the above, the pet ownership ban, and similar laws?

did you even read the "pet ownership ban" thread? it's not a "pet ownership" ban, it's a ban on retail pet sales in one city, not the entire state of california.