Arizona Republic: “When a 14-year-old texts her 15-year-old boyfriend a topless photo of herself, she could be sending him to prison for five years and labeling him a sex offender for life. Under current Arizona law, ‘sexting’ among juveniles qualifies as felony sexual exploitation of a minor. It doesn’t matter that the recipient of the photo also is a juvenile, or that the juvenile in the photo sent it herself. But a bill working its way through the state Legislature could make Arizona the seventh state in the nation to put sexting between juveniles into a category of its own. Senate Bill 1266 proposes to make it a misdemeanor offense for a juvenile to use a computer or cell phone to send or possess ‘explicit sexual material’ of another juvenile in the form of a photo or video.”
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Do you support the censoring of a class of people (based on age)? Do you believe it’s OK to put laws in place to punish youth for doing what they naturally do?
Senate Bill 1266 obviously doesn’t protect youth from predators, nor deter youth from engaging in these behaviors… Sexting is normal adolescent behavior that should not be criminalized! Nothing positive will come from this other than hurting a group of people for expressing themselves.
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