Your Kids Texts Could Cost You a Misdemeanor

The Texas State Legislature introduced a proposal yesterday that would punish parents if their children are caught sexting.

Your kid sends a nude photo, you get charged.

Under the bill, sexting would be a class C misdemeanor.  Any teenager who gets caught would have to go to court, along with their parents.  The parents could get sentenced to a family education program.

As for the kid, he or she would also be sent to that education program.

Right now, the kid would be looking at potential charges of trafficking child pornography, which could land them in jail and as a registered sex offender.

The lawmakers in Texas who proposed the bill think that's too harsh,  teenagers and their parents need to be educated about the problems of sending nude photos of yourself out into the world.

A Texas state senator named Kirk Watson, who's a Democrat, proposed the bill.  And the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, who's a Republican, supports it.  There's no word on when the legislature could vote on the bill.

(Houston Chronicle)