The Rise and Fall of Child Pornography Charges

A study that came out 2009 or 2010 showed that a significant proportion like something around 10% of child pornography prosecutions for a certain period of time were of teens who are consensually sexting with each other. My sort of anecdotal impression is that what happens is child pornography charges just like this case in Pennsylvania are sort of used as a specter for prosecutors to get teenagers to do what they want. The other thing that's changed since 2009 is that most states have passed really ineffective and unfair misdemeanor laws to address sexting so the majority of states have these now.