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New Jersey Bill Gives "Sexting" Teens a Break

By Baker Associates

In what is hopefully a sign of things to come, the New Jersey Assembly has passed a bill that allows teens who are caught "sexting," (a slang term for sending nude or sexually explicit pictures of oneself to another via text message) to avoid being prosecuted as sex offenders. While it may seem like common sense to you and me that teenagers should not face felony charges for texting explicit pictures of themselves to willing recipients, the child pornography laws of the federal and almost every state government allow such behavior to be punished as an offense involving child pornography and punished accordingly, sex offender registry at all.

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on March 17, 2011 (boomark / email).