Also, their teachers are getting called out for even coming in contact with their sexy texts. A 60-year-old veteran high school teacher and administrator from Virginia named Ting-Yi Oei is facing felony sex offender charges after a student at the school where he works showed him a picture he received on his phone of another 17-year old student nude from the waist up. Oei asked his boss, the principal, for advice on how to proceed. She told him to preserve a copy of the image on his computer for a pending investigation.
A fucktard of a county prosecutor then decided to charge him with possession of child pornography. Oei was arrested at school, forced to resign, subjected to public ridicule and shafted for over $150,000 in legal fees.
Another victim of the sexting hysteria is 11 years old. When photos of girls wearing bras began to spread among a bunch of middle-school students in Pennsylvania, the local prosecutor forced them to take a reprogramming class or face felony charges. One of the girls who took this class shuddered to find that a doughy, big-necked old man had meticulously pasted pictures of her and her scantily-clad friends onto index cards for everyone to, um, learn from. “I just think you guys are all just perverts,” she told him.
Another recent case involves an angry 18-year-old boyfriend who sent nude pictures of his 16-year-old ex to a couple dozen people. Now he has to register as a sex offender. Dan Savage sums it up as only he can:
The law has to be changed not just to protect teenagers from malicious, sexphobic prosecution, but to bring it into line with reality. Right now it’s perfectly legal in Vermont for a 18-year-old to have sex with his 16-year-old girlfriend — oral sex, anal sex, vaginal sex, ATM, BDSM, CBT, whatever — but they can both go to jail and land on sex-offenders registries for life if his 16-year-old girlfriend sends him a picture of her tits. That’s just nuts.
The problem is so serious that Vermont is now entertaining legislation that would make teen sexting illegal to spare harmless, slutty teenagers from finding their names on registries between this dude and this dude.
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Vermont! (Dan Savage blog)