Germany’s Cabinet has approved plans to reduce a one-year minimum sentence for spreading child sexual abuse images, changing a rule that was introduced in 2021 but officials say has proven to be too inflexible in practice.
“In particular, people who receive such material involuntarily — for example in the context of a WhatsApp parents’ group — risk a minimum sentence of one year,” Buschmann said in a statement. The same, he added, also applies “in the case of teachers who have discovered child pornographic material on students’ cellphones and have forwarded it to alert the affected parents.”
So seems less like they have an excess of CP and more like they have a poorly worded law that allows prosecution of people who aren’t the actual problem. Though teachers forwarding it to parents is a bit weird
I’d be more worried about people who send and receive images as minors with peer-aged people getting prosecuted too. They shouldn’t be keeping those images around, but people do stupid things and overlook their old messages and pictures all the time.
On the flip side, it’s easy enough for the teachers to not forward that stuff and still report it to a parent.
So seems less like they have an excess of CP and more like they have a poorly worded law that allows prosecution of people who aren’t the actual problem. Though teachers forwarding it to parents is a bit weird
Exactly my interpretation.
I’d be more worried about people who send and receive images as minors with peer-aged people getting prosecuted too. They shouldn’t be keeping those images around, but people do stupid things and overlook their old messages and pictures all the time.
On the flip side, it’s easy enough for the teachers to not forward that stuff and still report it to a parent.