 A red mountain high school student arrested after exposing himself in a school photo could face decades in jail and that's making some people question if he should have been arrested at all. Nineteen-year-old Hunter Osborn telling police he was disgusted with himself but there are questions over whether the punishment fits the crime. William Payett has the very latest on this story live from Mesa. Will? Well if Osborn has to register as a sex offender that's all anybody will see, not the circumstances behind what happened and that's why a lot of people are saying the punishment doesn't necessarily fit the crime and that Mesa police went too far with the recommended charges. One photo, small but reprinted hundreds of times over in the Red Mountain High School yearbook. Nineteen-year-old Hunter Osborn in the second row exposing himself. He says it was a dumb high school prank, one he regrets. I'm your name? Hunter Osborn. Mesa police say that prank is worth 69 counts of indecent exposure. If he's convicted a judge could make him register as a sex offender. I've never heard of 69 charges from a single incident on indecent exposure. It's outrageous that they're doing this to this young man. Attorney David Michael Cantor says he's seen people in similar positions, facing the end of life as they know it. He faces potentially 34.5 years in prison, he won't be able to rent at certain apartments. Every clearance is questionable, jobs are limited, federal jobs, daycare, school teacher, things of that nature. So it carries a very heavy hammer. Every time you Google his name it'll come up that he was charged 69 times with indecent exposure. But this happens all over the country. And that's led to groups nationwide calling for sex offender laws to change. My first reaction was that's ridiculous and my second reaction was I'm not surprised. The group reform sex offender laws says a zero tolerance policy is backfiring. Kids with relatively mild, just can be branded for life, sent to prison, where they can be sexually abused themselves. The country really is kind of in the midst of a sex panic. There really is very little tolerance for anything of a sexual humor shall we say. In this case we'll go to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office for review. They'll decide whether to formally file charges. As of today though, they say they have not been sent the case. Live in Mesa, William Pitts, 12 News.