Sexting: Police Arrest Recipient of Child Pornography
Girl makes sexual move, boy gets arrested.
Pressured by zealous prosecutors, the police arrest a 13-year-old boy after he receives sexting message on his phone -- a naked picture of a girl. She apparently had sent the photo of herself to several students.
Sexting Story on
WFAA-TV, 10/-8/2008
by reporter Craig Civale
SANGER - A controversy has arisen out of Denton County involving a 13-year-old boy, a cell phone and a text message. That message has landed the middle schooler in juvenile detention on child pornography charges.
Text messaging has become part of our everyday lives.
But at Sanger Middle School, it has become a problem and in some cases, pornographic.
“He doesn’t know what a felony means. He doesn’t understand what pornography means,” said one parent.
She is a mother of a 13-year-old boy arrested Monday and suspended from school and spent the night in a juvenile detention center after an eighth grade female student texted him a naked picture of herself...
“I know some girl was taking pictures of herself and sending it to multiple guys. Obviously, they’ve still got their picture on their phone because they are now getting in trouble,” said Bethany Mitchell, a classmate.
So far only the 13-year-old boy has been arrested.
Police and the school district are not discussing actions against any of the other students.
