From the Fayetteville Observer:
After a 16-year-old Fayetteville girl made a sexually explicit nude photo of herself for her boyfriend last fall, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office concluded that she committed two felony sex crimes against herself and arrested her in February.
The girl was listed on a warrant as both the adult perpetrator and the minor victim of two counts of sexual exploitation of minor – second-degree exploitation for making her photo and third-degree exploitation for having her photo in her possession.
A conviction could have put the girl in prison and would have required her to register as a sex offender for the rest of her life. A plea bargain arranged for her in July should clear her record next summer.
Good to gear that she won’t be facing life-long sex offender registration for taking a nude picture of herself but some other teen will at some point not be so lucky. North Carolina’s juvenile justice and sex offender laws definitely need a rethink to prevent such absurd results.
