given the burgeoning nature of technology. but many states have addressed the issue of sex ting as a policy question and what we should do about it. unfortunately, colorado has not. and in essence, what that means is that they default to the other statutes that are on the books. and if you re under 18, that default becomes child pornography. so whenever you re dealing with issues of child pornography and you re sending images of anyone who s around the age of 18, it s problematic. and fredricka, it s not only, you know, sending is distributing it, but say you get it. you re now in possession of child pornography. it so raises massive questions and it defaults, unfortunately, to the laws that are in existence. and since they don t have these ten sexting laws, they re draconian measures to deal with these children. so if you re a kid and receive it, you open it up and there it is. if you simply have it in your possession and you have not, you know, sent it to anybody, are you still lia
different direction by creating statutes that move sexting into a different category and allow for teens to be rehabilitated or educated in a way that could prevent this from happening. this is an important point. so there are states that have created sexting laws as a way of not using child pornography laws so that a teen who s guilty of sending an image of themselves can t be prosecuted under child pornography laws but would be prosecuted under presumably much less harsh sexting laws? absolutely. i think they recognize this is a real problem. you can be labeled as a sex offender for potentially the rest of your life but also maybe up to 15 years. for kids who are 16, 17 years old, that s a long time. i think people recognize that that punishment may not fit the crime. and so they re looking at other avenues to find ways to teach kids about what they re not supposed to do. and the severity of passing along images that are sexually explicit in nature to people under the age of 18.
so there are states that have created sexting laws as a way of not using child pornography laws so that a teen who s guilty of sending an image of themselves can t be prosecuted under child pornography laws but would be prosecuted under presumably much less harsh sexting laws? absolutely. i think they recognize this is a real problem. you can be labeled as a sex offender for potentially the rest of your life but also maybe up to 15 years. for kids who are 16, 17 years old, that s a long time. i think people recognize that that punishment may not fit the crime. and so they re looking at other avenues to find ways to teach kids about what they re not supposed to do. and the severity of passing along images that are sex wruua explicit in nature to people under the age of 18. the question that seems to me, do these laws mix distinctions between two big things? one, what kind of age gap we re talking about? the person at the lower end of
states who ve gone in a slightly different direction by creating statutes that move sexting into a different category and allow for teens to be rehabilitated or educated in a way that could prevent this from happening. this is an important point. so there are states that have created sexting laws as a way of not using child pornography laws so that a teen who s guilty of sending an image of themselves can t be prosecuted under child pornography laws but would be prosecuted under presumably much less harsh sexting laws? absolutely. i think they recognize this is a real problem. you can be labeled as a sex offender for potentially the rest of your life but also maybe up to 15 years. for kids who are 16, 17 years old, that s a long time. i think people recognize that that punishment may not fit the crime. and so they re looking at other avenues to find ways to teach kids about what they re not supposed to do. and the severity of passing along images that are sexually explicit in natur