It happened in NJ last week again.  The law has not caught up to intellectual property and social media. Good cooperative work with police, parents and the schools would generally solve the problem. Most of this behavior is simply stupid at best and mindless at worst. We do not need to criminalize children. Parents DO need to check cell phones and photos as well as history on computers.  The average male child starts checking out pornography in middle school. Locally last year in a similar incident the county prosecuter was ready to ruin young lives.  The school superintendent and the local police had a much better solution. They made the boys and girls delete all the photos in front of them, lose their library privileges for some time, and not march in the middle school graduation exercises, and give up their cell phones.

Wayne Yankus, MD, FAAP
expert panelist: pediatrics.