A victory for sanity

Yesterday I blogged about a crazy American case where a disturbingly obsessed American prosecutor went after a bunch of teenage girls, seeking to have them jailed as child pornographers for having pictures of themselves in bras. Fortunately the federal court in question isn't as Salemish as he is:

PHILADELPHIA, March 30 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday barred a Pennsylvania prosecutor from filing child pornography charges against three teenage girls caught with sexually suggestive pictures of themselves on their cell phones.

U.S. District Judge James Munley said he was issuing a restraining order on Wyoming County District Attorney George Skumanick ..... [snip]

Witold Walczack, legal director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania, welcomed the legal decision.

"This country needs to have a discussion about whether prosecuting minors as child pornographers for merely being impulsive and naive is the appropriate way to address the serious consequences that can result from sexting," he said.[snip]