Crime & Safety
Blogs: How Sexting Can Get Your Kid Arrested
Manassas Patch blogger uKnowKids discusses the criminal implications of sexting.

Adults and children do it: send racy, sexual images of themselves to others via mobile text messaging.
But as our blogger, uKnowKids points out, this type of activity can result in criminal charges for anyone-if the image is of someone under 18, even if that someone sent the picture his or her self.
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This interesting blog goes on to discuss child pornography laws and how adults and children can avoid getting wrapped up in the wrong type of text messaging.
By the way, blogging is free on Patch. So if you are knowledgeable about a certain topic, or have a real passion you want to write about, you should start a Patch blog.
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