This is getting to be an epidemic, isn't it? Just last week we had two stories of underage teens who took naked pictures of themselves and passed them around school. In one case, the girl who took the picture of herself was charged, while in a separate case a 13-year-old boy was arrested for being on the receiving end of the naughty nudie. Now comes word that an entire high school in Michigan could be charged after a 14-year-old girl said she "was clowning around" when she took a picture of herself this summer showing her vaginal area and then sent the pic to three or four friends' cell phones. Mistake! Once school got underway at Pinckney High School (west of Detroit) word of the image spread and it started getting passed around like, well, like a naked picture of an underage girl at a high school. Now Livingston County cops are confiscating cell phones that contained the image and are asking for more kids to turn theirs in. Right.The most interesting part of the story? The picture also, somehow, showed her face. A contortionist, maybe? Here's more from The Livingston Daily:
The Livingston County Sheriff's Department has confiscated a dozen phones containing the photograph and is asking any students who have the photo to turn in their cellular phones at the school or Sheriff's Department.
Sheriff Bob Bezotte said the 14-year-old girl indicated that she "was clowning around" when she took the picture of herself during the summer showing her vaginal area and sent that photograph to three or four friends' cell phones. That picture — with her face visible — then became a "hot topic" when school started after students learned about its existence and began asking to have it forwarded to their cell phones, Bezotte said. In all, a detective estimates the photograph has been shared with more than 200 other people, the sheriff added.
"There is good reason to believe it's gone beyond Pinckney boundaries," Bezotte said. Superintendent Dan Danosky of Pinckney Community Schools said no students have been suspended as a result of the incident, but that could change once the investigation is completed. "If it was a prank gone awry, that is different than if it was intentional distribution of inappropriate photograph," he said. "We will learn from the Sheriff's (Department) what is the situation and will take action based on that."
