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"That seems extreme," judged ABC's Gigi Stone when she told us about the latest pending prosecution of a child pornography case in Falmouth Mass. The alleged perverts turned out to be a pair of 13-year-old boys who forwarded a cellphone photograph of a partially naked female classmate. The law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts categorizes the possession or dissemination of any photograph of someone under the age of 18 "in the state of nudity" as an act of child pornography. Stone did not tell us what body part the "partially naked" girl was flashing to qualify her as being in that nude state. The sharing is nicknamed "sexting," Stone added, even though often no sexual activity is depicted, just teens "using cell phones to swap nude pictures of themselves. To many teens it is little more than a hi-tech way of flirting, what the teens see as innocent fun."
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