Ruining Kids in Order to Save Them

In order to protect children from predators and child pornographers, the local district attorney is threatening to prosecute minors who pose for racy photos as if they were child pornographers.…The girls aren’t in trouble for distributing the photos, or even for taking them. They’ve been introduced to the criminal justice system merely for appearing in them.

Skumanick would later tell a gathering of students and parents that he had the authority to prosecute girls photographed on the beach in bikinis, because the minors would be dressed “provocatively.”