Though youth is fleeting, images sent on a cell phone or posted online may not be, especially if they're naughty.
Teenagers' habit of distributing nude self-portraits electronically -- often called "sexting" if it's done by cell phone -- has parents and school administrators worried. Nationally, some prosecutors have begun charging teens who send and receive such images with child pornography and other serious felonies.
But is that the best way to handle it?
In some cases, the photos are sent to harass other teens or to get attention. Other times, they're viewed as a high-tech way to flirt. Either way, law enforcement officials want it to stop, even if it means threatening to add "sex offender" to a juvenile's confidential record.
Sexting, texting, happy slapping, cyberbullying, porn, nude pictures...
We have been investigating this problem for a while and I must say that it doesn't surprise me that kids are doing this with the advent of cell phones, a whole new set of problems sprang up and nobody bothered to do anything about it until it was too late!
You can not fix something once its broke... you can only mend it!
It can never be the same...
