Cell phone porn scandal hits U.S. school

Cybergal · Jan 25, 2008

Cell phone porn scandal hits U.S. school
1/25/08

ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania - Police tried to stop the spread of pornographic video and photos of two U.S. high school girls, images that were transmitted by cell phone to dozens of the girls' classmates and then to the wider world.
At least 40 Parkland High School students believed to have received the images must show their phones to police by Tuesday to ensure the images have been erased, or they could be prosecuted in juvenile court for possession of child pornography, District Attorney James B. Martin said Thursday.
But students at the Pennsylvania school said the distribution was far more widespread.

"Most people got it and kept passing it along for fun to everyone in their phonebook," said Jon Gabriel, 16, a junior who said he received and deleted the images.
One of the girls in the images is shown engaging in a sex act with an unidentified boy, Martin said. The other girl took and transmitted a photo of her bare breasts, he said.
Martin said he was not certain if the girl shown having sex had known she was being photographed. As for the other student, "she's a victim and she's not a victim," he said.
"Our thrust has been to get the kids to come forward and we've indicated we will not charge them for possessing the images," Martin told The Associated Press. "I'm not sure what we're going to do with the participants at this point."
Students interviewed at the school Thursday said the pictures were circulated about two months ago, and that the images have been distributed well beyond the high school and even to people outside the state ' including to Harvard University.

"The school isn't going to get everybody because it is everybody. I don't know anybody who didn't get the pictures," said Samantha Smith, a 16-year-old junior who said she deleted the images when she got them.
On the social networking site Facebook, one student started a group called, "Parkland. ... Where Pornstars Are Born."
Authorities began investigating about two weeks ago after some students told school administrators, Martin said.
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Pur48Ted · Jan 25, 2008

What a waste of time and money. I remember it was quite a hoot to "sneak" pictures of the chicks who got real drunk at parties and pass them around. (the pics, not the chicks.....although they probably got passed around too)
It was actually quite harmless kid stuff.
Now suddenly it's "child pornography"?? (HOW, unless it gets into the hands of an adult?)

Give me a break.

firstcav · Jan 25, 2008

With technology the way it is, how can you control things like this. This is what teenagers do. I don't blame the school for reacting to this the way they did. You can't have kids passing porn out at school.

leannamarie · Jan 25, 2008

Yes, things like this might always happen. But we as a society have to stand up and condemn them. Kids will always try to sneak alcohol or cigarettes too, and we don't just give in and let them do whatever the heck that they want. If we as society accept that it is okay to video young kids having sex, and okay that it is passed around to hundreds of other people, what are we setting ourselves up for?

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