Court: Girl broke child porn law by texting explicit video of herself

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Maryland's law against distributing child pornography applies even when the person distributing a pornographic video is the video's minor subject, Maryland's highest court ruled on Wednesday in a 6-1 vote.

The girl in question, identified only as "S.K." in court documents, was 16 years old when she performed oral sex on an unidentified male. The act was captured on video-he appears to have been holding the camera-and S.K. shared the video with two friends via a text message. She eventually became estranged from one of the friends, a 17-year-old boy, and he showed the video to a police officer at the school.

The government charged the girl as a juvenile for distributing child pornography and displaying an obscene item to a minor. She was ultimately found to be involved in delinquent acts on both charges-the juvenile equivalent of a criminal conviction.

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