Teens prosecuted for racy photos

An anonymous reader writes with a story on CNet about two teens who were prosecuted under anti-child-porn laws in Florida for having made and emailed racy photos of each other. Both were under 18 years old, so the resulting pictures are clearly illegal; but the teens' intent was not to share the pictures with anyone else. An appeals court majority opinion found that emailing the photos from one of the kids to the other was a careless act that should, it seems, bring down the full weight of the law. A minority opinion argued that the laws were intended to protect children from exploitative adults, not from other children.

source: 'Teens Prosecuted For Racy Photos'; Posted by 'kdawson'; yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/02/10/1752233.shtml; Slashdot; 10 February 2007