Pennsylvania: Judge Blocks Cellphone Photo Charges

From the New York Times:

A federal judge in Scranton issued a temporary order preventing the Wyoming County district attorney
from filing criminal charges against three teenage girls accused of sending nude or semi-nude photos on a
cellphone, or “sexting.” Last week the girls and their mothers, represented by the American Civil
Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, sued the district attorney, George P. Skumanick, arguing that by
threatening to prosecute the girls for being in photos he considered “provocative” he was violating their
constitutional rights. The judge, James M. Munley of Federal District Court, found that the girls and their
mothers “are reasonably likely to succeed on the merits” in their lawsuit. He ruled that his order would
be in effect at least until a June 2 hearing that could make the order permanent until the girls’ federal
civil lawsuit is resolved.

Thank God I’m not a teenager today. I’d have a criminal record and be a registered sex offender, as I don’t think there’s a guy I dated out there who doesn’t have nude photos of me.