Anyone who is OVERAGE should be aware that it only takes 1 complaint, whether based in fact or not, from an UNDERAGE person to land that OVERAGE person in jail for anything sexual the UNDERAGE person claims the OVERAGE person committed - that can be sending them porn, that can be meeting them, that can be coercing them to do sexual things, etc etc etc.
Take this scenario for example - the underage person gets mad at the overage person, for whatever reason and decides they are going to enact revenge. All it takes is one phone call and filing a report with whatever details the underage person thinks is most incriminating. BAM, the overage person is in jail.
Young people have little sense of responsibility and don't care if they ruin someone else's life. This is happening to someone I know right now and I recently learned it happened to someone else I know. The young man who's in jail right now because of the above scenario had his computer confiscated and searched as evidence. He cannot afford an attorney, he has a public defender. Do you think he's going to be cleared of 4 counts of predatory rape, even though the date of the occurrence was 2 1/2 years ago and there's no physical rape evidence? If they find anything on his computer, he will become a sex offender.
Adults would be very wise to steer clear of all things sexual when dealing with others in cyberspace. You never know who you're chatting with. And as many kids who are getting in trouble with the law now for "sexting" naked pictures to one another they can get in a heap of trouble too, no matter what their age.
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Sex makes everyone stupid
Date: 2009-05-21 03:31 am (UTC)Take this scenario for example - the underage person gets mad at the overage person, for whatever reason and decides they are going to enact revenge. All it takes is one phone call and filing a report with whatever details the underage person thinks is most incriminating. BAM, the overage person is in jail.
Young people have little sense of responsibility and don't care if they ruin someone else's life. This is happening to someone I know right now and I recently learned it happened to someone else I know. The young man who's in jail right now because of the above scenario had his computer confiscated and searched as evidence. He cannot afford an attorney, he has a public defender. Do you think he's going to be cleared of 4 counts of predatory rape, even though the date of the occurrence was 2 1/2 years ago and there's no physical rape evidence? If they find anything on his computer, he will become a sex offender.
Adults would be very wise to steer clear of all things sexual when dealing with others in cyberspace. You never know who you're chatting with. And as many kids who are getting in trouble with the law now for "sexting" naked pictures to one another they can get in a heap of trouble too, no matter what their age.