<p>I’m glad my age group doesn’t do this!</p>
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<p>My point is allot of prosecutors have made this a felony sex crime even it was between friends. Their attitude is “a scalp is a scalp” and it adds to their stats.</p>
<p>Ques.: Would you hold the same position if it was your child sitting in the accused seat? </p>
<p>I know you would not.</p>
<p>Zoeydoggie - I hope blocking his number put an end to the problem?</p>
<p>She doesn’t want to be snitch. I understand. But she needs to understand that there are things to snitch about and there are things you have options with. This is a “no option.” The world has changed - whereas 30 years ago this would be considered a joke, nowadays there are very real fears involved. These things need to be stopped now before they escalate.</p>
<p>zoeydoggie: I should have read the whole thread. The little bit that I read had me wondering if some group of girls were taking texts that they thought were from my son to an authority. Hopefully, he has straightened everything out.</p>
<p>SportsMama: From Verizons site, he found who and when the texts occured. The texts were going to his friends on his contact list. He started calling to try and find his phone but was surprised by the content of the texts. He then called everyone on the list to let them know that he never sent the texts.</p>
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Authoritative source for this? I’ve spent a fair amount of time with the guys who analyze electronic evidence for, um, cases against creeps. They do not have time on their hands to go scrounging for questionable cases to prosecute.</p>
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<p>As an accused? </p>
<p>You didn’t read the article I linked. Did You?</p>
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As a consultant, a colleague, and (for a small number locally) a trainer. I’ll give you full marks for consistency in lame efforts at wittiness, though.</p>
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Sure did. Although at best tangentially related to the topics of this thread, it was an interesting article about runaway legislation. Parsing that statement will be left as an exercise for the reader.</p>
<p>Now, where were we… oh yes. Where’s your authoritative source for your claim that “allot” of prosecutors are out there trying to expand their caseloads by ginning up frivolous felony charges against people who are merely pulling innocent phone pranks on their friends?</p>
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H:eek:LY C:eek:W! Same here, MOWC – that might just crack the screen on my phone! :D</p>
<p>Wow! The worst I had when I was in college was a drunken lout who lived next door & would have loud parties & make crank calls to at crazy hours. I reported him, my campus phone number was changed & he was evicted.</p>
<p>I’m sorry these things are happening these days and it does make it a pretty scary world our kids live in. Hope you can find out more about D’s options and also work with school about at SEXTING policy as it sounds like an important idea.</p>
<p>I would also be concerned about how random people get my kids’ phone number if they’re not giving it out. Is it something available thru the school system? I’d try to find that out as well so she doesn’t get more phone calls that are nasty.</p>
<p>My point about a female sending texts/photos to a male was to illustrate the assumption that male to female = harassment. Female to male = seduction. </p>
<p>Of course both are incredibly stupid acts (creepy being in the eye of the beholder, nature of relationship and intent). </p>
<p>Then there’s the whole consenting adult factor, which is why I chose 21, though in most w/r/t
sex, consenting adults = older teenagers. Sigh.</p>
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<p>There is no double standard here. If you change the original post to be about someone’s son rather than daughter, the only thing that changes is perhaps a lesser fear of physical harm to to your child. It still is creepy, stalking-like behavior. It is still something that should be turned over to the police.</p>
<p>Honestly, I think there is a definite double standard. If I were to receive a nude picture of a female who I barely knew from one of my classes, I would probably be like, what the hell is this? and delete it off of my phone. That would be it. If I were to send a female a nude picture (which I would definitely not do, regardless of who it was), it would be unsurprising if she were to report me to the authorities. I totally agree with LetItBe, and I think that one of the main reasons for the double standard is that female nudity is much more acceptable than male nudity, in addition to the fact that males don’t feel threatened by nude pictures.</p>