MagicManICT wrote:In the US, you can have sex at 16 (depending on what state you live in mind you), but cannot create or distribute pornography (any nudes, basically).
jordancoles wrote:Did the girls send him anything?
I would assume ASKING for the photos and not getting them is a lesser crime than asking for them, getting them, and then holding onto them?
Or even just having them come into your possession at any point, even if they were deleted by you soon after.
Obviously asking for nudes from underaged girls is a crime, but is it seen as being just as bad as if you were successful?
Attempted murder can be just as bad as actual murder in terms of sentencing, so I'm wondering if it is the same sort of thing
These are the questions I am wondering about as well that would change the situation quite a lot. It was said that ProJared created private blogs or twitter accounts, something like that specifically for the purpose of sharing these risqué photos. It is my opinion that if someone were to receive any such photo under those circumstances in which they themselves created an account specifically on this private blog for the purposes of receiving these photos, can you really blame the individual for sending them? He probably assumed anyone creating an account to see such a photo would want more. Was it actually a one on one conversation between these people or were the photos posted in a private group, instead, for example.
And regarding what MagicMan said, is that really
any pornography or more specifically
child pornography? Because the distinction matters, it is not illegal for me to post a picture of a legal age adult online with their consent, in Canada this is 18 or older. I assume it is also 18 or older in America even in states with sexual consent of 16 years. But, that does mean if ProJared received any such photos from these girls or retained possession of them (either digitally or physically) then he could indeed be charged for this. I don't think it works in the opposite fashion though, as in him sending his photos and that may have been all he did.