16 year old girls are not the same as the were even 10 years ago. If parents are strict, then children become sneaky. There is more to this story than either side really knows. But saying that I think both should be charged all the same. 16 year old girls know what they are getting themselves into when they send pictures. It is now taught in school that sexting is wrong and you will be convicted of a crime if you are caught. So that 16 year old girl knew when she was taking and sending that picture that it...
I completely agree with you. These young teenagers think its all cool and stuff to be with an older male but when the guy decides to move on the girls gets mad and go to the police. Nobody forced a 16 year old to take naked pictures of herself and why else would she take pictures of herself if she didn't intend to show somebody??? Who knows she could have lied about her age??? It doesn't matter how it happened but that it happened. All three should be punished. I have 2 young girls and if I ever caught one...
Maybe it's all of our faults for standing by the past 50 years and allowing the media, the education system, even in some regards, the church, to lower our standards to a point where as a society, we are finding it harder and harder to tell right from wrong. We dress up and tattoo our 11 year olds to look like a 20 year olds, we offer teenage and possibly younger boys and girls ideas of contraception, we leave parenting to the media, the schools, the church and sometimes to the children themselves and we act like we don't understand...
"Um wait a minute 16 is not an age of understanding .... If it were we would have 16 year olds owning there own houses having children voting working full time jobs drinking alcohol and the list goes on and on." Where do you live? 16 year olds ARE having babies, 16 year olds DO WORK full time jobs, 16 year olds DO DRINK ALCOHOL....
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