RSSTeen Sexting Ring Busted in Milton, VT … Don’t These Teens Understand This is Child Porn, the State Doesn’t?
TEENS GET MULLIGAN FOR SEXTING AND CHILD PORN IN VT …
Twenty two high school students in Milton, VT find themselves in big trouble as the police have busted a high school sexting ring. The students are between the age of 14 and 17 and used school issued laptops to view pics of nude and partially nude adolescent girls. GOOD GRIEF. When will teens ever learn that actions have consequences? Who thinks up such an elaborate scheme for sexting and disseminating porn. Then again, who is so stupid to go along with it?
You know why teens don’t think their actions have consequences? Ask the enablers in the liberal, socialist Republic of Vermont that finds it more important to pass gay marriage than they do to hand out punishment and charges for what has to be considered child pornography. Why would Vermont police waste their time, money and energy if they were not going to press charges?
The Milton Police Department said in a statement Wednesday that after investigating the sexting ring for six months, the case was now closed and that none of the juveniles would face criminal charges.
“We wanted to make it more of an educational experience than … a punitive experience,” said Detective Cpl. Paul Locke. “We don’t want a mistake they made at 14 to haunt them their entire life.”
Does this really help teens or just give them the feeling that they are bullet-proof? How do you stop teens from sexting and disseminating child porn if all they know they will face is a diversion program? being branded a sex offender for the rest of one’s life might be extreme; however, a touchy-feely, “we promise not to do it again” program seems a bit light. Then again, it is Vermont.
Locke said that technically, these indecent images of underage girls “could be considered child pornography,” although in this case they weren’t because the pictures were not obtained by adults over 18.
Instead of facing criminal charges, the students, who all fessed up to the acts, have been referred to the Milton Reparative Board, a community board that will hold them accountable by requiring community service, counseling and education.
The decision was made in compliance with a 2009 Vermont law in which minors who are caught “sexting” for the first time can complete a diversion problem to avoid prosecution under the state’s child pornography laws.
Posted August 21, 2011 by Scared Monkeys Child Welfare, Crime, Pornograpghy, Scandal, Sex Offender, Sexting, WTF, You Tube - VIDEO | 7 comments |
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I’m curious…
What do the under-age girls and their parents think?
Vermont is treating this like it’s a victimless crime and I would imagine there are loads of damages to privacy, character and reputation. Seems like, once again, child molestation is being ignored until somebody is killed. Another slap ‘em on the wrist reaction to an increasingly concerning sickness for which there is no cure.
Easy fix… ban all pornography! One thing we could live without, imho.
This entire problem can be placed on the parents. These children have not been taught proper values.
The right thing to do is to place all of them on the front page of the local paper, including the parents. Then place the parents in jail for four weekend sessions. As long as these little untrained animals do not get anything but a wrist slap, their behavior will not change. This goes for the parents as well.
It would probably take a change in the law to make the above happen.
So there might be more of a middle ground here, but seriously, you want to charge these kids with pornography and take the chance that they will end up being labelled as a sex offender for the rest of their lives? Is THAT a just punishment either for something that is, unfortunately, becoming today’s version of the Playboy magazine under the mattress? Technology is advancing faster than our ability to keep pace with it in many areas. Morality issues with kids and teens for whom texting, facebook, computers etc are an intimate part of their daily lives in a way that many adults may not fully comprehend or appreciate is definitely one of those areas. I am not saying there shouldn’t be consequences, but we often seem to be offered only very dichotomous choices in this country, and if the choices in this case are what VT is offering with a reparations board or a sex offender label for life, I will err on the side of giving kids a chance to make mistakes and make amends, at least until we reach a middle ground and our morality code catches up with technology.
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SM: When one disseminates naked pics of underage individuals, that is child porn. No I don’t want a kid to be labeled a sex offender for life, but there can’t be a slap on the wrist BS program that is the substitute. Is it any wonder why teens have no fear? Its almost like saying that if a kid commits a bank robbery that they should not be labeled a felon.
There are victims to this crime especially if the pics ever got out and were on the internet forever.
There does need to be middle ground or maybe the fear that they will be labeled a sex offender for life will be the deterrent. I just cant get over the fact that this generation who are supposed to be so intelligent, are so stupid.
R
Well done Vermont no point to prosecute and better to educate underage girls that putting your nude picture on the Net is stupid and to the boys that possession and distribution can be illegal and could destroy your future.
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SM: And if they robbed a store or stole a car, then what? How about if they just did an underage assault or rape? Care to give them a pass on that too?
@SM:
But they didn’t, just a bunch of kids exchanging nudy pix. Stupid, not OK but hardly deserving more than an educational slap on the wrist.
Milton High School is a joke the kids get away with anything and everything. im sure they will just brush it off like it never happend. come on here were talking about a school who allow the kids who cause all the trouble to get away with things and pass school without even attending classes. And punishing the good kids who get in trouble once or twice there whole high school career. MHS is a joke. Trust me i went there
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