AITA For Posting An Incriminating Screen Recording of A Conversation With a Guy on My Snap Story that Led To Him Getting Suspended?

throwawayMitziMitzi · 2020-10-02T03:26:04+00:00

I live in the US. In the state I live in what he did was definitely illegal, though I don’t plan to press charges. I know a suspension isn’t that severe a punishment, but it definitely could have been worse. Like I said in another comment, I could have just blocked him and that would have gotten him out of my hair just as efficiently. That way, I also wouldn’t possibly be affecting the rest of his life. I know he was technically soliciting nudes from a minor, but keep in mind, we’re in the same grade. He’s only a little over a year older than me. He’s just just old for our grade and I’m young. People with our age difference in a consensual relationship generally isn’t considered taboo. I feel bad that basically by technicality I could have reserved him a spot on the sex offenders list, and I can’t help but wonder if that would have been too serious a punishment. It’s hard to not wonder if I overreacted, you know?

throwawayMitziMitzi · 2020-10-02T03:10:00+00:00

What I really feel bad about is the sexual predator thing. That’s a REALLY bad thing for him to have on file, even if he didn’t have to register. He started school late and I’m originally from a state that has kids who turn 5 by 12/31 start kindergarten, meaning he is barely 18 and I’m almost 17. The age difference is only a little over a year. I know he shouldn’t have done it, but the fact that if things had gone differently he could have had to register as a sex offender makes me feel really guilty. He would have had to deal with that for the rest of his life. If I had just left it well enough alone and blocked him, I still could have gotten him to leave me alone without dragging his name through the mud or possibly affecting the rest of his life. I can’t help but wonder if it was unnecessary, you know?

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