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Criminalization of youth

• Two Louisiana elementary school students arrested for child porn over nude Snapchats - Police arrested two Louisiana elementary school students after they allegedly distributed nude photos to classmates using a social media app. The Bonne Ecole Elementary students, a girl and a boy, were booked on charges of distribution of child pornography, according to the Slidell Police Department.
  (Tribune Media Wire, FOX 59, US, April 20, 2018)

• Young Man Arrested for Underage Sex Was Re-Arrested for Sharing a Pizza with a 17-Year-Old

... the young man from Elkhart, Indiana, whose harsh punishment for consensual sex with an underage teenager he wrongly believed was 17 made headlines around the country in 2015, has been arrested for violating his probation. (Lenore Skenazy, reason.com, October 15, 2017)

• One in four child sex offenders are revealed as children - as more than 3000 young people have sexually assaulted kids in the past five years

A major increase in the number of children sexually attacking other kids has seen more than 3000 young people involved in sex crimes in NSW in the past five years.
(Emily Crane, The Daily Mail, AUS, October 10, 2016)

• Teens and sex: When laws don't keep up with reality

An 11-year-old girl in Michigan streaking in front of her brothers was charged with a sex crime.

A 14-year-old boy in Minnesota was charged with distributing child pornography after sending a photo of his genitals to a female classmate
(LOUISE WREGE, The Herald Palladium, US, October 10, 2016)

• Romeo and Juliet and Sexting: 17-Year-Old Faces Child Porn, Assault Charges for Consensual Sex with Girlfriend

They said that all they were going to do was delete the photos from the phone, so I blindly signed a paper allowing them to access it.' "After being arrested, I was suicidal and hopeless," Austin Yabandith, a 17-year-old from Superior, Wisconsin, recalls. "As of right now, I am just hoping for the best and preparing for the worst."
(Robby Soave, Reason.com, US, Sep. 12, 2016)

• Revealed: Britain's youngest convicted rapist, 11, attacked his nine-year-old sister twice and must now sign the sex offenders' register

A boy believed to be Britain’s youngest ever convicted rapist abused his younger sister twice when he was just 11, a court heard today.
( Mark Duell, The Daily Mail, UK, Aug. 25, 2016)