Unbelievable.

A 17-year-old North Carolina boy is being criminally charged as an adult for having sexually explicit pictures of a minor. The photographs in question are pictures he had of himself.

In other words, Cormega Copening is being charged as an adult for having pictures of Cormega Copening, because Cormega Copening is a minor. Horrified yet?

According to authorities, the boy is both adult and child—perpetrator of a crime against himself, and simultaneously the victim of a crime committed by himself.

Keep reading for more on this madness.