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Nampa teen could face serious charges after taking nude pictures of herself and sending them via text. Those pictures have made the rounds being forwarded on to several students at Nampa High School. “There’s a picture of a girl exposing her breasts,” said Joy Egan a freshman at Nampa High School who saw the picture. “I’ve seen it like more than 10 times probably,” said Izzy Rodriguez, a Nampa High freshman, “After it and stuff, she felt horrible.” According to these Nampa High students, the girl who took the picture is only a freshman and the picture was meant for her boyfriend/Shayne Wells, Fox 12. More here.
Question: How would you handle this problem if your daughter and a friend of your daughter’s was involved in sexting?
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Lynne on May 19 at 10:59 a.m.
Replace the phone with an older one that doesn’t have the picture feature.
LukeB on May 19 at 12:54 p.m.
Simple, no more cell phone. She shouldn’t face any criminal charges - surely she’s learned her lesson.
Aliasjax on May 19 at 1:48 p.m.
Explain to her that exposing her breasts is not the worst thing in the world. In fact, only in America and a very few other prudish countries are a woman’s breasts that big of a deal. Then maybe send her on a vacation where she can sunbathe topless to help her get over her artificial religious-cultural induced shame. Then, when she gets home, help her understand that most American teenage boys don’t have her now liberated view of the female form, and that photographing her breasts and texting the image to such a boy will only result in his acting like an idiot…
misc on May 19 at 2:14 p.m.
FTA:
“I guess I’m flabbergasted that anyone would take a photo of themselves without clothing on and send it to someone and not think that was going to backfire on you,” said Nampa Police Chief Bill Augsburger.”
If I lived in Nampa, I’d be flabbergasted that my police chief is this dumb. Surely he’s dealt with teenagers before.