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In reply to the discussion: McKayla Maroney -- I Was Underage in Hacked Nude Photos [View all]politicat
(9,810 posts)Taking: as in picking up and moving, or as in operating the camera? Because it does matter now.
This is one of those cases (like the various snapshot/medical cases in the 90s) where the original intent of the unclothed photos was not licentious. Family beach photos, family bathtub photos, and medical documentation have all been distributed as CP and people have been busted for possessing and distributing them, but the original operators of the camera were not, because their intent in the photos was not for sexual gratification. This matters.
If the early 90s cases, the photos were physically misappropriated -- either stolen from medical files, or by making unauthorized prints at photo processing shops, or from discarded photo albums -- before being scanned and distributed via mailed hard drives or over BBS systems. Technology has changed, but the concept remains: intent of creator and intent of distributor.
The distributor(s) in this case certainly intended to create harm and for sexual gratification.
Please stop blaming the victim.