Police: 22 Teens Involved in Sexting Ring

[Rey C.]

Wow, they grow up so fast...

Associated Press:

Police in Vermont say nearly two dozen teenagers used school computers and a special email account to access indecent photos and videos taken by female classmates.

Authorities said Thursday that 22 students have admitted to using the school computers in February to view 30 to 40 images and three videos, many of which were sent by cellphone. The Milton Independent first reported the story Wednesday.

Milton Police Detective Cpl. Paul Locke says girls took photos of themselves and sent them to boys, who forwarded them to the email account. He says 17 girls aged 14 to 17 were identified in the photos, many of which qualify as child porn.

The students will not face charges but must attend mandatory sessions with a community board.

School officials have not returned a message seeking comment.

 

[grower_boy]

I had friends who did this kind of stuff in high school, but I never got into it. Why would I want to see some annoying 16 year old naked when I could watch porn?

As for these kids, how much trouble can they really get in? They know what they're doing.

 

[Mayhem]

My thing is: in this day and age......why the hell do you need you're schools computers?? These days, everyone is walking around with 2 or 3 different devices at all times.

Sounds like they need some mandatory sessions on how to not get caught.

 

[C.J.]

I guess the computers at that school were working on windows maybe, that's the reason why those teens could easily get into the system and bypass the security.:bang:
With PCs working on Linux distribution like Debian for example, it would have been harder or even impossible for them to break into.

Schools should use Linux, FreeBSD... but not windows.:2 cents:

 

[Elwood70]

Wow, they grow up so fast...

The students will not face charges but must attend mandatory sessions with a community board.

I love how that's said with such an air of authority.

They won't face charges because they didn't break any laws. ...and who is this "community board" anyway? A bunch of virginal saints who were angels in school?

 

[max0rz]

I guess the computers at that school were working on windows maybe, that's the reason why those teens could easily get into the system and bypass the security.:bang:
With PCs working on Linux distribution like Debian for example, it would have been harder or even impossible for them to break into.

Schools should use Linux, FreeBSD... but not windows.:2 cents:

I'm not sure how user friendly that would be, lol.

Besides, from what we can gleam here, they didn't bypasss/break any security system AFAIK. It seems to be actually quite low tech.

They bascially just emailed pix between a small group of people. Or more specifically, I think they all just worked off the same email account.

Everyone had the user/pass and they would all just upload content to that account. Quite clever I suppose.

I'd wager the revelations here were as a result of some scorned member of the group.

 

[Spleen]

Stories like this piss me off.

Where were girls like this when I was growing up?

 

[squallumz]

...and who is this "community board" anyway? A bunch of virginal saints who were angels in school?

i think i have those cards on my monopoly set. maybe theyll get lucky and win $15 in a beauty pageant.

 

[Legzman]

pics?

 

[wingman00]

I've heard of police stopping paedophile rings, but sexting rings? this is bloody ridiculous! if they have reached puberty, and are fully developed, it has nothing to do with paedophilia! doesn't the police have anything better do spend their resources on?

 

[Legzman]

I've heard of police stopping paedophile rings, but sexting rings? this is bloody ridiculous! if they have reached puberty, and are fully developed, it has nothing to do with paedophilia! doesn't the police have anything better do spend their resources on?

they are just a bunch of dirty old perverts who get off on the pictures. Just like the kiddy porn police.

That said...where's the pics???

 

[VampDude]

Stories like this piss me off.

Where were girls like this when I was growing up?

Hitting each other over the head with sticks, in the stone age... Where they couldn't snap pictures so easily to distribute. :1orglaugh

 

[Mayhem]

I guess the computers at that school were working on windows maybe, that's the reason why those teens could easily get into the system and bypass the security.:bang:
With PCs working on Linux distribution like Debian for example, it would have been harder or even impossible for them to break into.

Schools should use Linux, FreeBSD... but not windows.:2 cents:

:wtf::why: Yup, that's the ticket. Switch to Linux and stop guys from looking at naked girls. :surprise: Thanx for that. Any thoughts on Cold Fusion?

 

[LukeEl]

What else are they going to do in Vermont burn their parent's commune farm to the ground?

 

[Torre82]

doesn't the police have anything better do spend their resources on?

No. They don't. Drugs, wifebeaters, child-support nonpayers, nowhere NEAR as important as another SEX story on fox news.

Who even cares about what teens do, better porn than pregnancies. Dumbass cops and their skewed priorities.

 

[Will E Worm]

The students will not face charges but must attend mandatory sessions with a community board.

Why not? What community board?

School officials have not returned a message seeking comment.

Why?

they are just a bunch of dirty old perverts who get off on the pictures. Just like the kiddy porn police.

That said...where's the pics???

Probably

 

[C.J.]

I'm not sure how user friendly that would be, lol.

Besides, from what we can gleam here, they didn't bypasss/break any security system AFAIK. It seems to be actually quite low tech.

They bascially just emailed pix between a small group of people. Or more specifically, I think they all just worked off the same email account.

Everyone had the user/pass and they would all just upload content to that account. Quite clever I suppose.

I'd wager the revelations here were as a result of some scorned member of the group.

If it is a public school, then maybe it's explain why the technology is not up to date. And also why teachers do not really care about watching over.
It could be also one of the parents who busted a kid and pushed him/her to confess.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

I love how that's said with such an air of authority.

They won't face charges because they didn't break any laws. ...and who is this "community board" anyway? A bunch of virginal saints who were angels in school?

Probably a bunch of people who want to hear detail by detail each account of acts committed so they can all masturbate or get off to it by thinking about it whilst having sex later on.