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I just feel like the police are over-reacting to this whole thing. Child porn happens everyday, people do and don't get caught. Whether they did or didn't do it, there's no reason for the boy to be charged, yet his girlfriend who did the exact same thing gets no charge at all.

The boy should have some jail time, but not be put onto the sex offender list, not even momentarily. From that, he will learn. You learn from your mistakes. Putting people in jail doesn't make them necessarily learn anything.

If I was someone who is in jail right this moment, I would try and figure out what I did wrong, and go back and do it again. It's human nature, criminals do it too, we don't learn unless we get hurt physically or emotionally to such a degree that we won't do such actions again. I'm not saying he is a criminal, what I'm saying is, this won't teach him anything. This is just putting him through torture thinking it will teach him a lesson. And you people may not see it as torture, but think about it. He just got his entire life ruined by the police, for something millions of people have done.

Now I can't say everything about what is right, wrong, etc. because I've never sent anyone a picture of me in the nude, not even shirtless. So that's all I have to say about the topic.

Murder happens everyday too, and not every murderer gets caught. By your argument, we shouldn't even try.

Unfortunately, that isn't an option. If you're imprisoned for a sex-related offence in the USA, you're put into the registry automatically.

....what? If prison isn't that bad, then why is it even a problem if he goes into it?

How can he be facing prison time if he can't be prosecuted as an adult yet?

Why would he have to be an adult to go to prison? Regardless, it is very possible he is being tried as an adult.