young teen girls charged with child porn of themselves

[pointman]

This is ridiculous, even if someone was using a phone when they were not supposed to, why was a school official going through the phone? That person should be charged with child pornography.

As far as search and seizure, the rules only apply to "government officials." If the teachers work for public schools, then the search and seizure laws probably apply, however, if it is a private school, they would not. I know in NY this probably would not be charged and I certainly know of some judges that would toss these charges out in a heartbeat due to the closeness in age. From what I am reading here, it is not the police that searched and seized, but the school that did.

Why are the boys being charged with possession? Nothing that I read states that they showed the pictures to anyone or even told anyone they had them, they are criminals because someone electronically sent them a photograph? Please!