A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a prosecutor from filing child pornography charges against three northeastern Pennsylvania teenagers who appeared in racy photos that turned up on classmates' cell phones.
U.S. District Judge James Munley ruled against Wyoming County District Attorney George Skumanick Jr., who has threatened to pursue felony charges against the girls unless they agree to participate in a five-week after-school program.
One picture showed two of the girls in their bras. The second photo showed another girl just out of the shower and topless, with a towel wrapped around her waist.
"We are grateful the judge recognized that prosecuting our clients for non-sexually explicit photographs raises serious constitutional questions," Witold Walczack, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, said in a statement. - ABC News Story
It is about time that someone with some common sense has stepped in. I don't know how many time that I have seen this on the news and thought, how stupid this is. It isn't something that I agree with kids doing, but I definitely disagree that it should be a crime.
I know that some things take common sense, and we don't have a lot of that in any one of our Government jobs.
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