Teen Sexting=Child Pornogrphy

This article states that a 17 year old girl was found guilty of distributing child pornography after being caught sending explicit images another girl her age. She was using the pictures to bully the girl, because she was her boyfriend's former girlfriend.

She was charged with distributing child pornography because the girl was also under 18.

The article suggests that she might have received the harshe sentence in response to recent suicides of Rehtaeh Parsons and Amanda Todd which have prompted nationwide cyberbullying awareness campaigns and calls for tougher laws to prevent Internet harassment.

Convicting sexting teens as child pornography is controversial. This girl is a criminal and deserves to be charged as such, but is "Child Pornography" the correct sentencing? I think it is unjust to say that teens sending naked pictures of themselves and actual pedophiles who enable the abuse of children have committed the same crime.

In this video that summarizes the case, the lawyer of the accused states that they will be taking the case back to court because "if adults can legally send naked pictures, it is unconstitutional to convict minors of doing so."

Although I disagree with the ruling, this is not why. There are many things that adults can do and kids can't. This should be of those things.

Do you think minors should be allowed to send explicit messages? And if not, should "child pornography" be what they are charged with?