More kids being charged with child porn offenses for taking pictures of themselves.
Police in Holbrook are investigating charges against three minors who allegedly created a video of two of them having sexual intercourse while the third recorded it, then distributed the video to junior high students."The video depicts two minors engaging in sexual intercourse," Holbrook police officer Keysha Mitchell said. She said the person recording the scene was also a minor.
"Some of the kids involved could be looking at possession of child pornography, dissemination of child pornography. There's also the possibility of statutory rape and if there's any audio discovered on the video there's also the possible charge of wiretapping," Mitchell said.
So the fact that the junior high girl was having sex with two junior high boys is fine, but making a video of it gets you years in jail.
Police said the video was taken at a home, not at the school. The alleged victim, a girl under 16, told them she did not realize she was being captured on cell phone. She went to police with her parents when she realized the video was circulating.
I'm not sure that a girl having sex with two boys has much of an expectation of privacy. Just based on the details given in the story, it's hard for me to view the girl here as a "victim". Am I wrong? Was she any more in the right than the boys?
"I'm not sure that a girl having sex with two boys has much of an expectation of privacy."
Sure she does. I'm not much of a menage-a-trois person myself, but I can definitely see there's a world of difference between a three-some and getting down to it on camera. There's even more difference between that and distributing the video to your friends and colleagues. It sounds like this girl has had 2 very serious breaches of privacy: being videoed without consent, and the distribution of it.
Besides which, it sounds like it could have been a two-some, there's no indication that she was aware of the second boy's presence. His being there at all could be yet another breach of privacy.
The crimes are severe, but I don't think the boys involved should be classed as nonces or put on any sexual offence register, that doesn't seem appropriate.
The article makes itself ridiculous by focussing on the dangers of mobile phones... concerned parents can disable the camera on the kid's phone! hehehe.