Ethics

Punishing Sexting = Destroying Lives

By Ed Brayton

Here's an absolutely incredible story out of Indiana:

Last week, two middle school students in Valparaiso, Ind., were caught sending nude pictures of themselves to each other on their cell phones. The students were caught when the 13-year-old girl's cell phone rang in class, and her teacher confiscated it, according to a police report. The girl cried that she would get in trouble because a 12-year-old boy sent her a "dirty picture."

The boy sent the girl a picture of his genitals and requested that she do the same, the report said. The girl then texted him a picture of her naked, police said.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 04, 2010 (boomark / email).