a teenager convicted of child porn after broadcasting a video of herself

The Maryland Court of Appeal ruled last Wednesday on the case of a girl who sent two friends a video of herself performing a blowjob to an unidentified man, reports the American edition of Slate, whose the French version of the site echoed. The teenager was sentenced for child pornography and placed under electronic surveillance.

It is in 2016 that this high school girl, then aged 16, sent these images, as part of a challenge with her friends recipients of the shipment. A few months later, the teenager quarreled with one of them, who transmitted the video to a high school official and distributed the document to several other students at the school.

The trial judgment confirmed

The head of the school did not then try to stop the broadcast of the video, but transmitted to the prosecutor the statements in which the girl recognized that she was the person in the video and that she had sent it to some friends.

In the first instance, the girl had already been sentenced, and the judges had responded positively to the question raised by the court: "Can a minor involved in consensual sexual activity be her own pornographer through sexting?"

"The friend" with whom the young American had broadcast the video and then circulated it in turn was not worried, says Slate.

New Mexico's legislation changed

In 2016, reported The world, the state of New Mexico's legislation has been amended to ensure that teenagers who opt for sending nude pictures or even sexual texting can no longer be considered sex offenders. A reversal of the majority of American states.

The year before the change, the newspaper reports, two 16-year-old high school students had been charged with sexual exploitation of a minor in the state of North Carolina, after having sex with each other. . In the face of the protests, and to spare them a prison sentence, their offense was eventually reclassified as an offense by the judge.