Children’s Child Porn Ring Smashed
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jan 22, 2009 03:21 JST
- Tags: Crime, Law, Loli, Lolicon, Pennsylvania, School, Shota, USA
A group of children who engaged in the practice of “sexting”, texting naked and semi-naked pictures of themselves to one another, have been arrested for manufacturing, disseminating and possessing child pornography.
The girls so charged are aged 14 or 15, and are accused of making the porn, whilst the boys, aged 16-17, are accused of possession.
Their child pornography sex ring was uncovered after teachers confiscated a mobile phone from a boy, and whilst rifling through its contents, as might be expected of them, found it to contain nude pictures of a classmate. The wise teachers quickly called in police to crack the case.
Police Captain George Seranko, who helped thwart the wicked pornographers and bring them to justice, eloquently described the photographic consequences of their obscene antics as: “a self portrait taken of a juvenile female taking pictures of her body, nude.”
The captain was clear that the villains must be made an example of:
“It’s very dangerous, once it’s on a cell phone, that cell phone can be put on the Internet where everyone in the world can get access to that juvenile picture. You don’t realize what you are doing until it’s already done.”
The school district was blasé about the child pornography ring uncovered in one of its schools: it found “no evidence of inappropriate activity on school grounds … other than the violation of the electronic devices policy.”
A lawyer with experience with such cases weighs in, saying the laws are not meant to target wicked juvenile pornographers, but “sexual abuse” by “dirty old men in raincoats.”
“It’s clearly overkill … The letter of the law seems to have been violated, but this is not the type of defendant that the legislature envisioned.”
Pennsylvania does not have a mandatory minimum sentence for such offences, so it is his opinion that they may escape jail.
However, if convicted they would become registered lolicon sex offenders for at least 10 years, meaning they would be subjected to such restrictions as not being able to visit or live in proximity to schools (difficult in the case of school children), having to report their convictions to employers, and apparently in some states they would even have to surrender their passwords to the authorities.
There have been a number of other similar cases involving minors creating criminal depictions of themselves, and the law has been successful in ensuring that a number of these juvenile child pornographers have been brought to justice for their crimes.
That said, there are some doubts over whether the privacy violating phone contents searches will fare well in courts.
Disturbingly, we also hear that as many as 20% of teenagers may be wicked child pornographers, as a National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy survey revealed 22% of girls and 18% of boys admitted sharing nude images of themselves.
Truly, even the schools themselves are not safe from this blight.
Via Slashdot.
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I'll stick to masturbating to photos of myself when I was 10 then...Nothing wrong with that...Unless they make another 'law'...
Oh lawd! Children fappin' to children!
Although they're at that age...
Artefact, there is a error in your report, right here:
"The wise teachers quickly called in police to crack the case AFTER they saved all the photos".
Now we just need to wait the MOFO's to upload it.
C'mon!!!
Wait a min...is there are proof that this "child porn ring" distributes the pictures over the internet?
From what I see, they are only distributing it within a circle of friends, right?
And these are just kids who doesn't know what they are doing...
Um, they know what they are doing. They are sharing naked pictures of themselves. This us ridiculous; the only reason they have these laws is to protect children from sexual predators. Obviously when sharing these pictures among mutual friends in the same age group that involves no predator whatsoever. And isn't it kinda sexist to charge the boys with one crime and the girls with another? Give me a fucking break. Kids that age are going to be attracted to one another; would you rather they illegally look at playboy? And how in the hell are these purple content with prosecuting children?! Please excuse the rant.
So loli get charged as a lolicon? How unusual.
The most hilarious thing about this is that it isn't child pornography at all.
Firstly because the photos were merely nude pictures, involving no sexual material whatsoever. Secondly because the people involved are not children, they are young adults who are sexually mature.
Why must the world be so full of gibbering fools?
Because Americans are idiots?
I, for one, support underage sexting.
These are just kids who doesn’t know what they are doing. So, can't they have a light punishment and get over it?
actually they probably did know wat they were doing
I thought the age range was going to be like 7-12. Those are already teens.
Yeah I think they need to make a bloody distinction in the law between a child and an adolescent as they are NOT THE SAME FUCKING THING.
not an adult =/= a child. It can mean that certainly but they are incorrectly lumping a whole different decade full of ages which are neither children, nor adults.
Hell if I was the kids I'd argue the fucking semantics of the thing. If nothing else maybe they could get the shit to make legal distinction between a fucking child and an adolescent.
"We charge you for creating child pornography. How do you plead."
"Not guilty. I am 15 years old and therefore no longer a child. Either charge me with 'adolescent pornography' or leave me alone with this idiocy."
Over reaction? Or maybe spot on teacher and poilce work
where is it from again japan?
Pennsylvania USA
Hicksville, Dumbfuckistan.
I suppose that's correct too LOL
Yep, "Change we Can Believe in" indeed. Heard about it over a week ago, and I thought it was stupid to charge them with self-lolification and possession of the pics, and the guys are under 18!! Just file this in the "stupid actions of youth" folder and move on. Things don't look so well for my country for the next 4 years and this is proof.
what if you're carrying nude photo's of yourself. pornographic or not, maybe like portfolio stuff, nude though, but kinda artistic. is that gonna be the same thing?
Ithink they are right keep it up guys i wish i were in your shoes haaaaaaaaaaaaa.
A few centuries ago it's common practice to marry a 12 years old almost everywhere, but now it's treated as a crime worse than murder. Just funny how moral can change with time.
Yes, but back then the average life expectancy was about 35 years. People were expected to grow up and start contributing to society alot earlier than they are now.
the teacher looked at the pictures thus he is guilty...
the police looked at the pictures they are guilty...
this is an invasion of privacy...
everyday the people die a little more...
you want to enforce the law...
then nuke the planet...
only way to be sure
WE WILL PROTECT THE CHILDREN, even if we have to kill them all off to do it!
This is kind of why I setup my phone to lock up on power up and 30 seconds of idol time. (Keeping people out of my call log & contacts if it's lost or stolen)
Links to those vids would be nice. To uh...speculate.
I think I could prove that those images are not intentionally made pornographic material but made by mistake, thus making the accusation illegible!
But eh... I first need to see all of them /grin
You have a filthy mind. Filthy, filthy filthy...
No, we're trying to help here /grin
remember that a boy's cellwas taken so do you really want his pics
Sigh, desu~
I notice these threads get way more comments then normally when it's related to child pornography.
The whole case is just stupid. If they want to distribute naked pics of themselves go for it. They will understand the consequences later on when they finally develop a brain. I think the teacher isn't completely wrong but he could have handled the situation way better. I would have just consulted the parents. Girls have it so damn easy lol. They could be just selling body shot for cash. Sounds like a nice inside school business if you don't mind be labeled a slut or worse
Not really sure if it's so much caek that draws the comments, or the politics/legal that does it, but...I don't see what the harm is in letting these stupid kids do stupid things on their own. IMO though probably not relevant, the pictures should not be admissible in court because the teacher in this case acted as a representative of the State when he examined the phone and found the pics of them.
Well they ARE child pornographers.
I don't wish to go over the morality of it: right or wrong, as citizens we all play this game of Law. We're protected by it, so we're in the game. So, we must keep every violations our own secret. It's simple, really.
Whatever happened to the days where the teachers just went to the parents and you got the shit kicked out of you and that was it?
Hah, so minors can now be labeled sex offenders for possessing naked pictures of themselves? That's as retarded as saying that you can go to jail for seeing yourself naked in the shower.
oh noos.
don't tell the police about the shower masterbaters then. that counts as both underage porn and underage sex.
ROFLMAO.
genecide too as thousands of potential people drown (as may be the case of males)
.......this is why I hate people. How fucking retarted is the police. GO AFTER REAL CHILD PORNOGRAPHERS YOU STUPID S.O.BS..
"Your tax dollars put to work" ...yeah.....I'm thrilled
you dumbass...
Those kids above WERE child pornographers!
You say that like you think they WOULDN'T charge someone who committed suicide with 1st degree murder if they weren't already dead.
Only reason why they don't is because it's impossible for now.
But they were pornographing THEMSELVES. That's like charging someone who atempted suicide with atempted murder.
or people who dump waste at a refuse site as enviromental vandals
It's not their fault they got these kids as child pornographers, kids are the only ones these lazy idiots can catch.
yeah!
And people withdrawing money as theft!!!
I guess the cops can't catch real criminals, so they go after kids being dumb kids. The Barney Fife vice squad.
Also, why the hell didn't I get to go to school with girls like that?
If a cop walks into a house without a warrant and finds a kilogram of coke he can't use it in court as evidence and one can not be prosecuted. The teacher had no right to search the cellphone and thus everything found on it can't be used as evidence.
I'm no lawyer but that's how I see it.
True, he wouldn't be able to make an arrest right there, however it WOULD be probable cause for him to get a warrant radioed in and THEN make the bust. If it's in plain view, then yes, it can be held against you.
a teacher has every right that a parent or guardian does during school hours, after all they are the ones that look after them when the kids are at at there.
yeah, but were the photo's taken during school hours? sharing them yes maybe, but not taking the photo's during hours. two different things completely. thats like talking about the drugs one had on the weekend during school hours and actually taking drugs during school hours.
Actually, the Supreme Court just ruled [http://writ.news.findlaw.com/colb/20090121.html] that evidence that was gotten even without a legal search warrant are now admissable in court.
Enjoy your fascism, guys!
actually the cell phone was confiscated legally though the looking through the contents part is an invasion of privacy they still had legal possession of it. So it could be argued the teacher did nothing wrong(from a completely technical standpoint)
America keeps making me throw up in my own mouth. I don't think there's really much in the way of fixing that can be done at this point.
Suitcase nukes can solve lots of problems in the blink of an eye.
Fire can also slove a lot of problems with the added bonus of being a lot funner (and prettier) to watch.
Thanks, I'll enjoy this fascism like I enjoy Silent Hill and Biohazard [Resident Evil].
As I recall, unwarranted search and seizure only applies to law enforcement officials. If a private citizen finds something illegal (though they may find it through illegal acts themselves) it is still admissible.
Also lol @ finding out about this on a site I read for Japanese news (living in PA).
OBJECTION!
that might be true, however after calling the cops, the policemen were able to legaly trace the ring and find other images on the phones of other students.
OBJECTION!
(.....yeah, thats it)
Take that! Dirty child pornographers get their just dues!
Jeez, reminds me of the case where the 17 year old guy and the 15 year old girl were legitimately dating and the guy got charged with loli.
The teacher isn't a law officer, so it doesn't matter if the search was "legal" since there are no laws restricting that kind of thing. The evidence can be used as long as the police didn't obtain it illegally themselves.
That being the case the teacher should still be sued for a breach of privacy.
Yup, the teacher should be sued for that and the police should have some kind of document that state that they have the right to confiscate and look trough all the mobile's content.
Which I doubt seeing as there was one call from the teacher that revealed it, and I don't think they make the documents like that from one call.
Not to mention the teacher was viewing child pornography as well.
Anonymous is right.
Anonymous is wise.
Students actually lose most of their constitutional rights at school. The laws still apply to law enforcement, but a school administrator can search you and your belongings whenever they want to for whatever reason they want to.
Also, you can't plead the fifth. If an administrator asks you to reveal something incriminating about yourself and you refuse, you can receive further punishment.
Igiari!
They don't "lose" their rights, they are only under a different government. The constitution states no other law or government can take away rights given by the constitution. You can ALWAYS plead the fifth, however that can be used against you as you cant defend yourself if they suspect you with some other evidence.
A school administrator has the right to search you for suspicion of something dangerous, or law breaking not for any reason they want to. And they can do it by force, you don't "have" to show it to them, if you don't want to. Of course that can be worst if you are caught.
The whole plead the fifth in school doesn't work is bull said by the faculty. In most cases not talking will lead to worst that's the only thing they can mean.
True, except they can punish you for disobedience. Even if the request is unreasonable or imposable
Nobody ever had rights to begin with so they can't lose something that's nonexistent.
so wait... there getting busted for taking pic's of them selfs? god forbid the police should ever go to myspace.
indeed, if some young lovers decide to take images of themselves naked, they can be arrested being in posession of child pornography
That's fucked up. It's just a solution based on plain simple strict rule facts. It's like confiscating a kitchen knife because it have the abilities to kill.
Actually it's not as messed up as you might think at first glance. The images are considered child pornography; if they were found on a grown-ups computer or cellphone, nobody would think twice about convicting him. How then, when the 'children' can lose control of their pictures (after all, how many guys haven't wanted to share pics of naked girls online?) should it be right to prosecute one group (the grown men) and not the makers of said images, even if they are self-taken?
Wait... so you're saying that they can't have pictures of underaged naked girls (AKA Classmates) but if they have sex, it's perfectly fine to see her naked.
Ok... 1)THEY'RE UNDER 18!!! So they're still allowed to look at little girl's Deliaires (if that's how it's spelled) because they are still young enough to to have sex (and see her naked) even without a phone. And it's legal to for them to look at it because (really) they could go find a girl and see it... and not against the law.
And... 2) So... You are PROMOTING sex now... Because (seriously listen) a guy with a picture of a girl would do what with it? Come on guys, think with your lower minds... But, now that they don't have a picture, they might just go for the real thing. Heck, maybe even rape. It's happened before.
So... Really, I don't stand for it... But I am not going to argue forever about... So, think what you want to think, I'm going to have to go out to find a girl now... Ciao.
Would be funny, IMO.
Funny to read the comments in the sauce.
"Think of the children! Pedos do that all the time. And think of themselves as well."
"..all children are hiding their naked bodies under their clothes, and therefore can only be regarded as mobile child pornography factories. Obviously, only banning children entirely will stop this perverted scourge ..."
"(Is that a clitoris or acne?)"
I read this yesterday. Just shows that laws can be pretty retarded in certain contexts. This is set up to prevent children from being taken advantage of and prevent ruining their lives - yet it strikes back to those whom the law is trying to protect, doing what it's supposed to prevent?
Besides, why is a teacher going through private photos? An act that is more immoral than what those kids were doing.
I call this bullshit, i can take photos of my naked body (i won't do it anyway, nobody is interested on photos of me...) and send'em to whoever i want, its my body, my cellphone and i'm paying for the service.
So then, if i take naked photos of my 9 month old baby and send it to my wife then i'm child pornographer too?
I think law is losing its place...
Yes you are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7bcGyCA-5k
4:10
So it's a group of kids being naughty. Also, given the oldest involved was under 18, I think this falls into a who cares category.
I'm in Portland and we got bigger fish to fry as our gay mayor admitted to have improper relations with an intern just days after he turned 18. They were romantically interested when the lad was 17 but didn't do the deed until 18.
uhh. how is that a wrong thing? they can call it what they want prior to him being 18, but if they weren't doing the dance of the trouser snake, who cares. it's still legal. is it the thought of the act of sex with a minor or the fact that they are gay that's upsetting the media apple cart? i'd call the latter based on the fact you mentioned it, otherwise in everyone elses mind it's just another dirty politician groping the copygirl.
The fact they confused lolicon with actual Child Porn just shows how blatantly and blindingly stupid people can be about distinctions between subjects of similar nature.
But yeah.... the teacher was in the wrong. It's the student's property, and thus an invasion of their privacy.
I wonder if the teachers kept any of the pictures they found? XD
Words like "lolicon" were thrown in for our own amusement when the article was rewritten for Sankaku by Artefact..
The really sad thing about this whole issue is that those in charge are very aware of the nature of these laws, but they couldn't care less. In fact, the sole purpose for laws like this is to satisfy their misguided moralistic ideas. It's not about protecting teh children, saving our youth or whatever. It's fascism. Plain and simple.
its about sending people to jail and pay for their living expenses with our tax money.
Delicious fear mongering, NO ONE IS SAFE FROM CHILD PORN, EVEN THE CHILDREN ARE SUBJECTING THEMSELVES TO IT, JESUS CHRIST.
So wouldn't it be illegal for them to bath? God forbid they look at themselves freaking loli pedo's LMAO.
It's things like this that make me ashamed of my country's youth
What a dastardly brood of wicked little child abusers you have raised!
I lol'd
wait, a children that accused of childporn?
this sounds strange like a rape victim that accussed of raping themself...
in your face UNICEF!!!
Here's some logic for everyone:
The case under consideration....
An underage girl sends an underage boy nude pictures of herself, and he has them stored on his cell phone. They are child pornographers and will be prosecuted as such.
But what about....
An underage girl gets nude in front of an underage boy, and he in turn gets nude and engages in consensual sexual intercourse with her. What does the law do then? Nothing!
Why does the law prosecute the fantasy but allow the reality?
Actually it is illegal for two minors to have sex with each other, and they can be arrested. I remember a case in which(I believe) a 16 or 17 year old boy had oral sex with his girlfriend who was around the same age, and they were both charged with statutory rape or something to that effect. I think they let her go, but he's now a registered sex offender. Kinda stupid, isn't it?
It's not just stupid, let me be the first to say on here...IT'S F'ING SEXIST!!...It wasn't in dispute that it was consensual right? Then the girl should be in as deep in shit as the boy is over this, if that's not the epitome of sexist and stupid, well I obviously have no clue what is.
Well, I dont know where your from, but I live in virginia and my freind's mom was 15 when she gave birth to him....
Yes, let us arrest all the children the moment they get naked anywhere (even at home). The act of being naked is very dangerous, you can be seen by a lolicon anywhere and your pictures posted on the internetz. You don’t realize what you are doing until it’s already done.
Arrest all the children!
As long as this doesnt hurt my illigal loli porn ring im fine
lolwut
i cant believe how stupid people are this is y in 20 years everyone gonna be slaves 2 robots
Like you are 18 i guess:
I bet you could get arrested just from having underage pics (example 13y old pic) of yourself masturbating and have it stored on your pc,then somebody reports you that you have em and they find out.Without sending it to anyone and you get arrest for it.Or maybe you don't get arrested for such a particual case who knows the law is pretty messed up there.
Also the article i read here is also pretty messed up,a case of law going wrong.
Wish they would rethink about the law as it's going wrong in many ways.
They are still all children under 18,the boys probably couldn't prevent recieving those pics from the girls.
Also this:
A lawyer with experience with such cases weighs in, saying the laws are not meant to target wicked juvenile pornographers, but “sexual abuse” by “dirty old men in raincoats.”
Don't forget women you feminist,otherwise he is right.
See, that's why I always removed the battery from my phone when it was taken up. (Not that I was ever lucky enough to have such nice materials on it.... cry desu)
The police will arrest those kids and take photo's of them naked. lol