“Text Sex Sting”

The Iowa Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a young man who sent a text photo of his erect penis to a teen female friend from school. The man had hoped that the court would overturn the conviction and that the girl would uphold his penis.

The fine he paid for disseminating obscene material to a minor was $250. At 25 cents per text, the picture was literally worth a thousand words.

This follows a trend of young people checking out each other’s cell phone skins.

The conviction in the original case was pretty solid, since the prosecution had photographic evidence of what the man was thinking with.

The girl who received the photo can’t be fully regarded as a victim in the case, because, since receiving the photo, she has kept her phone on vibrate.