High school recalls yearbook over photo showing sex act
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Southern California high school has ordered students to return their yearbooks after discovering a picture that showed two students possibly engaged in a sex act in the background of a school dance photo.
Police said they were investigating a 17-year-old boy seen in the Big Bear High School yearbook photo with his hand under the clothing of a 15-year-old girl during a school dance.
Detectives were trying to determine if the boy, who was not identified, had committed the crime of sexual penetration of a minor, said Cynthia Bachman, spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.
The school, in the mountain resort community of Big Bear Lake, about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, had recovered most of the yearbooks, Bachman said.
Sheriff's deputies were contacting any students who had not turned in their copies "to facilitate editing of the yearbooks to comply with federal and state laws concerning child pornography," according to a department statement.
Bachman said investigators did not believe school officials were complicit in knowingly distributing the photo.
"Because it was an unintentional act, I don't think anybody had any intent to offend anyone, including the juveniles pictured," Bachman said.
The yearbook went out last week and the school issued its recall soon afterward, when the picture was first noticed.
Officials at the school did not return calls.
For students who return the yearbook, the school has offered the option of editing out the photo and giving the yearbook back, or issuing a refund, Bachman said.
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In 2009, Joseph Gerber was sentenced to 13 years and four months in prison for possessing child pornography and giving his 13 year-old daughter drugs. But that’s not the crazy part: Gerber’s child porn was actually pornographic pictures with his own daughter’s head pasted on real women. Thirteen years sounds like appropriate justice for a man who Photoshops his little girl’s face onto porn.
But the Sixth District Court of Appeals in San Jose saw things a little differently in this matter when it ruled on Wednesday.
The court said Gerber should not have been convicted of possessing child pornography because “California’s child porn ban, punishable by up to three years in prison, ‘requires a real child to have actually engaged in or simulated the sexual act depicted.†The ruling was 3-0.
Justice Franklin Elia said: “Although we may find such altered images morally repugnant, we conclude that mere possession of them remains protected by the First Amendment.â€
High school recalls yearbook over photo showing sex act
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