Given how absurdly powerful they are, and how shockingly ignoble a surprising number of them are nowadays...
I just like my authorial creative license.
Hey, that's your privilege as an author. Enjoy it.
As for the subject at hand, it's an utter violation of common sense to convict someone of "child porn possession" when they are an older teenager and the picture is of themselves. You cannot rape yourself. You cannot molest yourself. You cannot do anything to yourself without your consent, because
obviously. (Note that being coerced is someone making you do something.)
So now, a guy's life is about to be ruined forever because of a simple thing
that people who are having sexual relationships are inclined to do. All because he hadn't ticked that magic number 18.
So, actually, I'm pretty mad about this.