Preventing Kids From Slipping In between The Cracks

Now every parent would agree that child pornography is bad, but not everyone might realize how easy it is for children, especially teenagers to get tried on accounts for child pornography because of exchanging sexually explicit pictures via the mobile phone or internet. While we don’t want to reduce the penalties for distributing or possessing child pornography, something needs to be said about the growing number of boys and girls who get involved in something they think is harmless, which snowball into felony charges, and even being listed publically as a sex offender for decades. Kids deserve a chance, and labeling someone as a sex offender at age 17, 18, or even 20 typically isn’t a reasonable penalty of the true action and intentions behind them. One of the only ways to secure your home computers (in order to make sure they don’t host child pornography) is to use computer monitoring software, or in other words, an undetectable keylogger.

Here’s a list of some of the steps legislation has tried to take in order to reduce the harshness of punishment for children who get caught in the cross-fire of what they thought was harmless fun and games:

-In 2009 Rep. Rosa Rebimbas (Connecticut) introduced a bill that would reduce the penalty for "sexting" between two consenting minors. Currently, it is a felony for children to send such messages and violators often end up in the state’s sex offender registry. With this new law, it would reduce the penalty of sending text messages with nude or sexual images for children under 18 to a Class A Misdemeanor.

-In April 2009 Vermont introduced a bill to legalize the consensual exchange of graphic images between two people 13 to 18 years old.

-In Ohio 3 lawmakers proposed a bill that would reduce sexting from a felony to a first degree misdemeanor and eliminate the possibility of a teenage offender being labeled a sex offender for years.

-Utah followed a similar path and reduced the penalty for sexting from a felony to a misdemeanor.

Make sure your kids are protected at your home computer(s) so that you can sleep easier. Start using computer monitoring software or an undetectable keylogger today and make sure you stay on top of what your kids are doing on the net.