I think the reasonable thing here for sexting with minors might be that the time listed as a sex offender (and thus requiring heightened monitoring) would be the difference in age between the oldest and youngest participant. Minor can't be charged with distributing pornography, period, only possession. and if they're under age of 18, it simply lists it of registry as MINOR-in Town X Records sealed until X/Y/20XX. No town. so if someone does a background search by social security number, it'll flag it, but someone looking at the list won't actually see a minors information listed publically.
That does mean that potentially some people can age onto the registry if the age difference was big enough OR if they were multiple or repeat offenders. So the 17 and 16 year old mutually sexting won't age onto the visible section of the registry. The 17 year old and 14 year, the 17 year old will but can get off it at 20 if it was a one time issue. The 14 year old never ages onto registry. The 47 year old sexting a 14 year old though, he's public from day one and he's not getting off for 33 years, minimum.
Because really its the predators and repeat offenders we want to actually punish and/or monitor, not teenagers who are just DUMB. Then you're still addressing the age gap and imbalance of power issue, but its not quite so draconian when they're close in age.
I think the reasonable thing here for sexting with minors might be that the time listed as a sex offender (and thus requiring heightened monitoring) would be the difference in age between the oldest and youngest participant. Minor can't be charged with distributing pornography, period, only possession. and if they're under age of 18, it simply lists it of registry as MINOR-in Town X Records sealed until X/Y/20XX. No town. so if someone does a background search by social security number, it'll flag it, but someone looking at the list won't actually see a minors information listed publically.
That does mean that potentially some people can age onto the registry if the age difference was big enough OR if they were multiple or repeat offenders. So the 17 and 16 year old mutually sexting won't age onto the visible section of the registry. The 17 year old and 14 year, the 17 year old will but can get off it at 20 if it was a one time issue. The 14 year old never ages onto registry. The 47 year old sexting a 14 year old though, he's public from day one and he's not getting off for 33 years, minimum.
Because really its the predators and repeat offenders we want to actually punish and/or monitor, not teenagers who are just DUMB. Then you're still addressing the age gap and imbalance of power issue, but its not quite so draconian when they're close in age.
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