A 16-Year-Old Girl Is Facing Child Porn Charges for Making Sex Video of Herself

> At her initial hearing, the prosecutor said the state was not "trying to prove a point in going forward with this case," but that "the state believes that the respondent is in need of some guidance, rehabilitation for something deeper" and "is just trying to help her."

What mental health issue is at play here? Is the problem that the girl exhibits natural sexual curiosity and behavior? As to her desire to record and share her experience, I wonder where that mentality came from? Could it have something to do with the toxic, social media obsessed culture in which she has grown up?

And it is now the job of the state to provide mental health "guidance" under threat of imprisonment?

It was foolish for her to share the video with her "close friends," but there is nothing criminal or aberrant here. It was not her intent to distribute the video to adults (who I totally agree shouldn't be watching it due to her age).

This prosecution is beyond outrageous, and will leave lifelong scars. She is without a doubt the only true victim here, and the state is the worse for having stooped to this. Hopefully the case is thrown out, and the prosecutors who brought it face severe backlash.

The cruelty, stupidity, and absurdity of US prosecutors is simply astonishing. And these are the people our society enlists with providing justice. The only thing they're providing is another notch in their belt of absurd prosecutions. It's hard to believe they are even human at all. They are self obsessed monsters and parasites on society.

Some of these laws are absurd. How would prosecuting this girl would benefit anyone?

It's very strange to me how the US justice system is so bent on enforcing rules that everyone knows are just weird.