Two sixteen-year-olds from Fayetteville, North Carolina, did what many teens who are in romantic relationships do: they talk, they text, they hang out. And they sent each other nude photos. Research shows that at least one-third of teens have engaged in this kind of behavior at some point in their lives. Technically speaking, though, youth who are under the age of 18 who participate in “sexting” have created and distributed child pornography, a serious crime that could land them in a lot of trouble.
The case from North Carolina is gaining headlines, not because the couple did something particularly unusual, but because prosecutors did:
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