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.
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.
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.