Teens send each other naked pictures, get charged with child pornography

[Seamus Fermanagh]

I would question the need to prosecute in this instance. Doesn't seem like a good use of taxpayer dollars. At best we have minors engaging in inappropriate behaviors with females under the age of consent; no real pedo component here. Surely they have other more significant issues to pursue...


However....CR:

4th ammendment may not apply. Under 18s have few legal rights and, in the strictest sense, cannot own property in their own names. Therefore, if they used a cell phone on school property during school hours and it was a known school policy (signed off on by parents) that any such phones would be confiscated, then the school was operating appropriately. Same can be said for searching the phone if there were prior notice that all confiscated phones would be searched. Absent express or implied consent or a duly signed warrant, however, I do not think the cell phone material should be admissable.

HT:

The chap who visited Canada had it coming. Tourists and visitors are ALWAYS responsible for complying with local laws. The rule is, if in doubt, don't. Assuming that you will receive the same rights overseas as you would in your own country is a foolish assumption.

[Crazed Rabbit]

However....CR:

4th ammendment may not apply.

Yes, likely that is the case. However, it should apply. I find it abhorrent the government can compel you to do something and take your rights as you do what they say - in this example, the government compels kids to go to school and parents to get their kids to school, but suspends some of their rights.

I've been following this on Faux News for a while and it is hilarious seeing O'Reilly claiming that the government acted correctly.

Sheesh, what a tool. And must you call it 'faux news'? I don't go around saying 'communist news network' all day.

Yes Rabbit the State told them to have sex

I didn't say that. The incentives created by the government make the punishment for having sex less severe than seeing a photo of the same person naked. In short, the state is saying having sex is better than - or not as bad as - seeing a nude photo.

CR

[Tribesman]

Yes, likely that is the case. However, it should apply.

Hey if you don't like the constitution write a new one .
Hold on, you like the constitution when judges say it means what you want it to mean but you don't like it when judges say it means what you don't want it to mean

the government compels kids to go to school and parents to get their kids to school,

Stand up against your tyrannical government .
Exercise your rights , give your kids some home skoolin

[Crazed Rabbit]

Hold on, you like the constitution when judges say it means what you want it to mean but you don't like it when judges say it means what you don't want it to mean

I always love the Constitution - just not always the judges.

CR

[Lord Winter]

I always love the Constitution - just not always the judges.

CR

It wouldn't hurt to rewrite it, I'm just afraid of what it would look like after.

[Strike For The South]

I agree with Tribesman. The problem here is not that these minors constitutional rights were violated. It's that the administration and police dept. are blisteringly stupid.