Podcast Safety Tips. With a few angry finger jabs to her home screen she shut off her phone, shoved it into her backpack, and looked out the car window. She later told me what my heart already suspected. The other details followed. Not only did she not know the classmate very well, he asked the question so casually it made her feel invisible, almost worthless. She smirked, wiped her eyes, and showed me her phone as if it were a badge of honor. I also told him not to bother texting me again. She handled it.
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North Carolina high schooler and his girlfriend face legal proceedings over selfies as both the adult perpetrators and minor victims. A teenage boy in North Carolina has been prosecuted for having nude pictures of himself on his own mobile phone. The young man, who is now 17 but was 16 at the time the photos were discovered, had to strike a plea deal to avoid potentially going to jail and being registered as a sex offender.
It's a statistic shocking enough to make most parents' hearts skip a beat - one in seven nine to year-olds have shared nude photos of themselves. That is the finding of US-based research which revealed the acceptance of sending nude photos among tweens and teens had increased significantly in last two years. The report by Thorn the alarming number of nine to year-olds who said they had sent a nude was an increase from one in 20 reporting the same thing in Researchers also found more young teenagers believe sending nudes at their age is 'normal' and even admit to seeing non-consensually re-shared nudes of other kids their age. When looking at all age groups, a shocking 50 percent reported sending nudes to someone they had never met in real life. One of the most alarming finds was that 41 percent of the same respondents believed they were sending the images to an adult. The findings again highlight the dangers of unrestricted access to social media and communication apps among teens and tweens. Dr Goodwin believes young Australian tweens are heavily influenced by the content they are viewing online, through unsupervised access to social media. So because they're consuming a lot of sexualized content, they often think this is what sort of normal behaviour is," she says. At this young age they haven't reached the point at which they can fully process the risks they are taking online, leading to risky decisions being made.
A North Carolina boy finds himself looking at felony sex offender charges in which perpetrator and victim are both him. Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives. How often is it that charges are brought in which perpetrator and victim are the same person? My online search for anything like the case of Cormega Copening has come up empty. Police in February allegedly found nude photos of Copening, then 16, on his phone and arrested him for possession of child pornography. Yes, he, himself, is the child in the alleged pornography. It all happened last in Fayetteville, North Carolina.