This is yet another worry for parents. It’s sad that kids just don’t think of the potential longterm consequences of sexting. It’s also pretty horrifying to think they would even consider doing it in the first place.

Kids need to think of what will happen tomorrow; due to their cell phone usage of today.

 Wait! That’s what parents are for; to say No! You can’t have that.

Privacy only happens when you put up curtains, to many kids are sitting in their rooms sending out messages via the internet, or cell phones. With Twitter catching on, they can send out every second of their lives for all to see, and replay over and over. The embarrassment replay button will never end.

Remember ever saying this, I do! “I’m so embarrassed I could die!”

Parents have to stop getting caught up in the advertisement of cell phones and internet. Teenagers don’t need to be connected 100% of the time. I have heard parents say that their kid’s cell phone is for emergency purposes. Riight!  Then why do they need unlimited text messaging?

How can the schools do anything about it? If they don’t know about it.  The kids don’t always come up and tell a teacher. Maybe in middle school, but rarely in High school. They don’t want to tell because it unleashes more harassment and more people that get into the act and want copies of the pictures.

We as parents want to give our kids their privacy and let them face and deal with issues, but sometimes you have to step in, but you have to know where to do it.  If Jesse told her mother that she had spoken to the officer, yet nothing was done, I would have (and have but not with an officer) spoken to that individual on the side and ask that it remains anonymous, and made sure that was all that could be done, as well as talked to the counselors.  You have to do it carefully and get the authorities (counselors and teachers etc) to cooperate.  You have to make friends with the teachers but in High school, if the kid only sees the teacher one class per day, teachers don’t always know what is going on with a kid.  An average teacher sees 250-300 kids per day.  In California if an incident like this comes to a teacher’s attention, they have to report it. 

Teachers don’t even want cell phones at school.  They don’t want the distraction.  What if there were a law to ban cell phone use by minors or adults who cyber bully?  Or send porn? 

The story is truly tragic. But the reality of it is, that some parents blame school officials for not taking control of the situation or children for gossiping, but does anyone remember what high school was like. Everyone knew everything, it is all about growing up. When we are young and immature we do not realize how fragile our lives really are. We think that we are invincible and we talk and make jokes and pick on people sometimes forgetting that life can be taken away from any one of us at any moment. I believe that "sexting" is a problem, but do you truly think there is a way to stop it? no, there cannot be. As long as cell phones are going to be used, "sexting" is going to happen….. It is funny too. While mrs logan gets on tv and slanders down young children, blaming them for her childs death, she is in fact setting up one of those children for potential suicide, because they will take it and possibly think that they killed Jesse, therefore they deserve to die too.

Mrs Logan also forgets to present other facts of her childs problems. Like her having an affair on her husband and her constant physical abuse of her daughter Jesse. "Sexting" is a problem in the world, but the true problem of this case was a negligient abusive mother, who didnt pay enough attention to her daughter when she was crying out for help. She has no one to blame but herself…

My heart goes out to this girls family and friends.

I hope this ex boyfriend realizes how malicious and cruel it was to spread this photo around, and I hope he realizes his actions led to the death of a beautiful young woman that trusted him.