The 14 year old boy was not arrested or charged, although his name might eventually end up on a police database for an entire decade. Not only that, this particular information might be disclosed to future employers, and I guess by that time he would be 24 at most – so it should not be too much of an issue if he were to explain himself, as he must’ve done so in the heat of a moment.
The teenager’s mother did mention that her son had been “humiliated”, and defended him to a certain extent by calling him “naive” at best and simply being “a teenager” at worst. I suppose before the age of selfies came around, the equivalent of doing so was to flash yourself – which was unthinkable back then. The mother then mentioned that many children at the school also participated in “sexting” as a form of “flirting”, although we are not sure where she got that “data” from. Many?