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MONTPELIER, Vt. — Parents, school districts and law enforcement have been grappling with what to do with teenagers who take sexually explicit photos of themselves with their cellphone cameras and send them to friends. Vermont legislators are moving to get rid of one option: child pornography counts that result in lifetime listings on the state’s Internet sex offender registry.
Legislation passed by the state Senate and pending in the House would carve out an exemption from prosecution for child pornography for 13- to 18-year-olds on either the sending or receiving end of “sexting” messages, so long as the sender voluntarily transmits an image of himself or herself.
