jss | March 27, 2009
A 14-year-old New Jersey girl has been accused of child pornography after posting nearly 30 explicit nude pictures of herself on MySpace.com — charges that could force her to register as a sex offender if convicted.
She’s been released into her mother’s custody.
It’s all over the news, as though she killed someone. Actually, it has probably gotten more attention than if she killed someone. The media eats this stuff right up. But you’ll never read about the resolution of this case. They’re on to the next thing.
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jss | March 23, 2009
There’s a journalism problem, though. Because the two teens, the boy and the girl, were sentenced before The Beast raised the double-standard question. And guess what? They got similar sentences. Neither is doing jail time.
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jss | February 11, 2009
… Not surprisingly, domain names such as sexting.com and mysexting.com have been snapped up; but so far, they’re just placeholders. I doubt it will be very long before a site launches that is devoted entirely to personal cell phone camera porn. If such a place already exists, someone point it out to me and I’ll give you a cookie.
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