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Big Bear High Makes Yearbooks Even More Embarrassing, Runs Photo that Constitutes Child Porn

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High school yearbooks tend to be embarrassing enough when we look back at them five or ten years later. But for two Big Bear High School students, they are about to become infinitely more humiliating, after the school's annual printing was recalled because a picture of the duo constituted child pornography.

In the photo, which hasn't been released for obvious reasons, a 17-year-old boy can be seen in the background with his hands up a 15-year-old girl's skirt, reports KCBS.

School administrators say that they don't know how the photo wound up there, or how it made it past the eagle eyes of both the yearbook team and the yearbook advisor. We say, someone at Big Bear High School might have a twisted sense of humor.

At any rate, students are being asked to turn their yearbooks back in so the photos can be removed, and most have complied. Those who haven't are being reminded that by hanging on to their memories of the glory days, they could be charged with possession of child porn.

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  • The definition of child porn is getting more ridiculous every day.
    If this continues, anyone under 18 will one day be required to wear burqas in order to legally appear in photo or video.

  • khagler

    Actually everyone who received a yearbook could be charged with possession of child pornography whether they turn them back in or not. In fact, turning them back actually amounts to a confession--the smart play is to burn it and say "what yearbook?"

    And then of course the entire yearbook staff, their faculty advisor(s), and everyone at the printing company could be charged with manufacture of child pornography.

    I doubt that any of this will happen, though, because as much as a prosecutor might salivate at the thought of hundreds of slam-dunk convictions of evil pedophiles, actually going through with it would shine way to bright a light on how deeply absurd the laws have gotten.

  • Sounds like someone's not getting their diploma.

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