Last week, teens in Tampa’s Hillsborough High Schoo got a bad case of the giggles as a nude photograph of a male student spread like wildfire across the campus by cell phone. Even though a 15-year-old girl named in the picture from her phone she had been, I still can’t look at him seriously. When I see him in the halls.”

John Steele, a Hillsboro freshman, told Elisabeth Parker a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times, that sending sexy self-portraits is high-tech flirting. He said, “if you can’t see your girl in real life, it’s another way to see her,”

This new rage on campuses is call “sexting.” It is catching the attention of prosecutors across the country who are charging students as young as middle schoolers with child pornography and other felonies.

Last month three Pennsylvania girls, ages 14 and 15, were charged after they sent nude self-portrays to their boyfriends, ages 16 and 17. The boys were charged, too. In Indiana, a middle school boy faces felony obscenity charges for sending a naked photo of himself to a girl. Last week, the Pinellas-Pasco State Atty.’s office in Florida got its first sexting cases involving three teens.

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