A teenage girl snaps a photo of herself with some or all of her clothing removed and sends it to a teenage boy. How many, if any, crimes have been committed?

This is known as “sexting” among teens who text, and in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, both sender and recipient would be charged with serious child pornography crimes.

In the next state over, Ohio, eight teens who traded photos were sentenced to poll their friends and report to a judge what percentage of their friends realized that this was a illegal. Most didn’t know.

1 in 5 Teens Sends Nude Pictures – Is that a surprise, or a crime?
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy released survey results that said 20 percent of all teens have sent a nude photo of themselves to someone else electronically. There are increasing reports of schools investigating this, using a pornography rubric.

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