‘Sexting’ craze hits Britain

In March, “Not quite the stuff of X-rated movies, but it was enough to prompt the Wyoming County district attorney last month to threaten to file charges of child pornography against the three girls involved unless they agreed to probation and a 10-hour ‘re-education program’,” p2pnet quoted the Pittsburgh Post Gazette as saying. But the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania ended up representing the three girls and their parents, claiming the DA, George Skumanick, had violated the girls’ First Amendment rights. Now in Britain, a growing number of teenagers are, “swapping sexually explicit images of themselves on mobile phones leaving them open to bullying and victimization by their peers,” says the Montreal Gazette .

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