British Columbia teenage girl who texted naked photos found guilty of child porn

State legislatures around America should take notice and follow this example Canada laid out.

CTV News reports Canada's teens were warned Friday to be aware of who takes their picture and where those images may end up after a Victoria-area girl was convicted of distributing child pornography.

The 17-year-old girl who sent explicit texts of her boyfriend's former girlfriend was also convicted of possession of child porn and uttering threats.

"Always be careful of what you allow of pictures to be taken, what you send to whom," Crown Prosecutor Chandra Fisher said outside of court moments after the teen's guilty verdict.

"(Teens) need to be careful what they send, what they send to each other and where it might end up."

Fisher said there are many tragic Canadian incidents where young people have taken their own lives over images distributed by others over the Internet.

The suicides of Canadian teens Rehtaeh Parsons and Amanda Todd have prompted nationwide cyberbullying awareness campaigns and calls for tougher laws to prevent Internet harassment.

The girl was found guilty of the child pornography charges because the subject of her so-called sexting messages was also a teen. She cannot be named because she was convicted under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

The uttering threats conviction resulted from the teen's Internet threats, via texts and on Facebook, to physically harm the other teen if she came to her Victoria-area high school. The girl also threatened to harm the other teen's unborn child through texts.

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