What baffles me about these cases is the hypocrisy of the position the courts are taking on it. They say that minors aren't able to consent to creating indecen

What baffles me about these cases is the hypocrisy of the position the courts are taking on it. They say that minors aren't able to consent to creating indecent images of themselves; that's a fairly decent position in and of itself. However, they then say that they're committing an adult crime by doing so. You can't have it both ways -- either they're minors or they're adults. If they're minors, they can't legally create these images but they can't be tried as adults for it either; if they're adults, they could be tried for it but there's no crime there. Pick a side and stick with it.