Honor Student, 16, Sends Naked Picture of Herself to Boy and Guess What Happens Next?

You'd think with all the widely publicized incidents like this that teenagers would finally be getting the message that it's NOT a good idea to use your cell phone to transmit a naked picture of yourself to someone else at school. It tends to get forwarded . . . to EVERYONE at school.

Plainfield police said they have seized nine cell phones after a 16-year-old high school honors student took a nude photograph of herself and sent it to a male student. The picture quickly went viral on campus, and a Plainfield East High School official contacted authorities last week, prompting what police are calling their largest-ever sexting investigation. In one sign of how quickly the photo spread, some of the original senders told police they had received it from other people last week, according to court documents.

Viewing the photograph and forwarding it are technically violations of child pornography statutes, though police and the Will County state's attorney's office say they typically handle such cases through juvenile probation. No one has been charged.

"It's something that's starting to become more and more of a problem," said Plainfield police Sgt. Anthony Novak, who supervises the department's four school-based officers. It's not clear how many of Plainfield East's roughly 1,300 students received or forwarded the photo, but it could easily number in the hundreds, police said.

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