r/news • u/MIngmire • Jan 09 '18

Dad turns in teenage son after finding child pornography on cell phone

http://www.kmov.com/story/37226711/dad-turns-in-teenage-son-after-finding-inappropriate-pictures-on-phone
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u/moms-sphaghetti Jan 10 '18

The exact thing happened to my cousin.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18

They fucking should. Yeah, guys, if you contributed to jailbait, you were actually doing something wrong that cannot and should not be rationalised, and you need to take a hard line with yourself, not an easy line with other paedophiles.

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u/ThatDudeShadowK Jan 10 '18

No one was talking about r/jailbait

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u/dont_take_pills Jan 10 '18

Creation of child porn is illegal.

So a girl taking a picture of herself, jail. Sex offender.

The guy getting it? I don't think it matters if he even requested it. Definitely put him on that sex offender list.

What if a 14 year old is concerned about something about their growing genitalia and posts a super non-descript zoomed in picture of the bumps on their penis to a medical question subreddit? How many child rapists got off on that? Definitely put that kid in lock up.

Like, how unreasonable can you be? Child porn is horrible, and so is punishing someone for growing as an adult. Punish adults who take advantage of children all you want, don't punish a teenager for poorly handling their developing physical and mental sexual growth with one another, as long as all of them are otherwise on equal growth paths.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '18

That’s not what r/jailbait was.

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u/Othello Jan 10 '18

You followed the wrong comment chain, just FYI. No one here was talking about the subreddit.

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u/dont_take_pills Jan 10 '18

Oh shit, you didn't put the /r/jailbait tag in the first message, so I just assumed you meant the general term. Not the actual subreddit.

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u/SpCommander Jan 10 '18

Or perhaps they didnt think through the consequences of their actions because they're young and immature and dont realize?

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '18

It would be a nice rationalisation that those participating were young men. But what reason have we to be so generous in our assumptions?

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u/SpCommander Jan 10 '18

Do we have any evidence indicating otherwise? How about we examine all possibilities until we have evidence that eliminates each possibility instead of going in with prebuilt stances and notions?

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '18

Posting pics of women online without their consent is bad and people who do it should feel bad. Posting pics of underage girls is worse and they should feel worse. I don’t see the need for nuance here.

And if jailbait is representative of the user base, the average age is 25-30. So.

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u/rmslashusr Jan 10 '18

You should put the subreddit link (or make it clear that’s what you’re referring to) in your original message not just your later explanation because as it reads currently people think you’re simply calling two underage people privately texting each other as “contributing to jailbait”. No one understands you’re talking about a specific subreddit called jailbait because you’re the only one in this conversation who (for whatever reason) knows it even exists.

I’m frankly flabbergasted you would think that’s what the first person you replied to was talking about.

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u/Othello Jan 10 '18

Dude followed the wrong comment chain. The one above this was talking about the subreddit.

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u/WhynotstartnoW Jan 10 '18 edited Jan 10 '18

It would be a nice rationalisation that those participating were young men. But what reason have we to be so generous in our assumptions?

It would be a pretty absurd assumption to make that the people who took the selfies posted on jailbait were young men. If there was a more concerted effort law enforcement could have easily tracked down the creators of the child pornagraphy on jailbait and either put those women in prison or put them on the child sex offender registry.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '18

The curators and purveyors were men who should’ve known better.

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u/movzx Jan 10 '18

You're still talking about the jb sub when this comment chain is about teens exchanging pics between one another.

Similar to this https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/20/teen-prosecuted-naked-images-himself-phone-selfies

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u/mattyoclock Jan 10 '18

If you publish the pics, that is contributing to jailbait and publishing child porn, but just having and recieving or sending them is perfectly healthy sexual development, presuming you are around the same age. As others have said though, deleting them on reaching adulthood if not earlier is probably a smart move.