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Criminalization of youth

• Newtown High students charged with selling sexted photos, videos

Three Newtown High School students have been charged with selling sexually explicit pictures and videos of their classmates. Twenty other students were referred to a juvenile review board for reportedly sharing those images with friends. (Nelson Oliveira - The News Times, US, January 28, 2016)

• Laws treat children as monsters for minor sex crimes | Punishments severe

Imagine a 9-year-old branded a sex offender for life. Oh wait. In America, in 2016, you don’t have to imagine.( Lenore Skenazy - RSOL, US, January 18, 2016)

• Throwaway Children

Attorney Catherine Carpenter serves on the board of CA RSOL. She spoke at RSOL's 2013 conference. Catherine has published a new paper dealing with the practice of putting our children on the sex offender registry. She states, “It is about the deeply flawed and inherently unjust practice of making children as young as ten register as sex offenders for life. It is a subject that fills me with anguish and anger.” (January 18, 2016 - RSOL, US, January 3, 2016) Source: Throwaway Children: The Tragic Consequences of a False Narrative (Catherine L. Carpenter, Southwestern Law School, December 29, 2015)

• Colorado’s Sexting Nightmare

Colorado teenagers might face child pornography charges for sending each other nude photos. Wherever smartphones and sex hormones coexist, there will be sexting. To stop it, you would have to confiscate every camera in the country, dismantle all cell towers, and shut down the Internet. (Samantha Allen, The Daily Beast, US, November 9, 2015)

• Sexting scandal: Colorado high school faces felony investigation

Students at a Colorado high school exchanged hundreds of naked photos of themselves, prompting a felony investigation by police and the forfeiture of a football game because many players have been implicated in the sexting scandal, officials said. (Michael Martinez, CNN, US, November 9, 2015)

• Brattleboro photographer accused of producing child sex abuse images (ModelTeenz)

According to documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Richard Emerich, who has lived on Western Avenue in Brattleboro since late 2014, took pictures of a sexual nature of underaged boys. (Robert Audette, the Berkshire Eagle, US, November 4, 2015)

• Sexting investigation leads to arrest of Pa. middle school students

TREDYFFRIN Twp., Pa. -- Police say they have filed charges against three Philadelphia-area middle school students for allegedly distributing intimate photos of other students, according to CBS Philly. (CBS News, US, November 3, 2015)