Your little girl took a picture of herself topless and allegedly sent it to her boyfriend. Yes, he deleted it, but not before his friends found out and got a hold of her cell phone and sent the pic to themselves . . . and then it started making its way around Grand Blanc High School in Michigan. The school found out and now your daughter has been suspended. So what do you do? Threaten to school for discrimination because boys are allowed to pass around pictures of themselves without shirts on! Really? You really want to go there?
Apparently the parents of one girl in the GB school district do, they are seriously considering a lawsuit against the school district for sex discrimination and invasion of privacy, according to their attorney, Mike Haley. Claims Haley,
"Males take pictures of their chests and send them around all the time, and they are not suspended. The school district is discriminating against females. They're going against the law."
Yeah, good luck with that one. Here's more from the Flint Journal:
Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton had no comment Wednesday on whether charges would be brought against the students, saying he had not seen the report by Grand Blanc police Detective Robert McFadden, the liaison officer at the high school.
But Haley said state law on child pornography doesn't apply. He said the law was amended in 1988 to delete "developed or developing breast" from the list of images that are classified as child pornography.
"The incident they have suspended these students over is in no way, shape or form child pornography," the attorney said. "There hasn't been a criminal violation of any kind that I'm aware of."
McFadden said the girl admitted taking a photo of herself topless and sending it to her boyfriend's cellphone about 10 days ago.
The boyfriend told police he deleted the photo. Two other boys admitted taking the girl's phone from her purse without permission and sending the photo to themselves.
One of the two boys was not suspended, Hammond said, because officials could not confirm that he held the phone in his hand or sent the photo to anyone.
Haley said the girl intended, but forgot, to delete the picture and like the other students was suspended Monday for five days for knowingly having the picture on her cellphone at school, Hammond said. Since school was closed Thursday and Friday because of the Thanksgiving holiday, the girl is due to return to school next Wednesday.
Students who knowingly had the photo on their cellphone and forwarded it to others were suspended for 10 days, Hammond said.
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