Indiana- from www.chestertontribune.com – A Portage High School student has been detained on a delinquency charge of possession of child pornography after Portage Police said that his cell phone was found to contain four nude photos of two PHS girls younger than 16.
According to police, at 10:30 a.m. Friday the PHS principal received a call from the mother of one of the girls advising that the student in question, a boy, had threatened to post a nude photo of her daughter to his MySpace page if she refused to loan him something. The boy was brought to the principalâs office and in a search of his phone the PPD School Resource Officer (SRO) found a single nude photo of the womanâs daughter and three other nude photos of a second girl, police said.
The boy advised the SRO that he hadnât dated either girl and that, while he did not threaten to post the photo to MySpace if she didnât loan him the item, âhe did remind her that he still had the picture,â police said.
In consultation with the Porter County Prosecuting Attorneyâs Office, the boy was transported to the Juvenile Detention Center on a delinquency charge of possession of child pornography, police said.
Meanwhile, the womanâs daughter advised the SRO that sheâs known the boy for six or seven months, that they ânever really datedâ but she does âlike him,â and that âshe does not recall how the picture idea came up and (is) not sure if (the boy) showed it to anyone.â
The SRO then interviewed the second girlâthree photos of whom were found on the boyâs phoneâwho admitted to sending pictures of herself to the boy and similar ones to another PHS student, a Hobart High School student, a Chesterton High School student, and possibly to a Lake Station student, police said.
âI asked her why she sent pictures to these boys,â the SRO stated in his report. âShe advised that they asked and claims that she has low self-esteem. (The girl) advised that she sent the pictures about a month ago. (The girl) advised she has not asked any of the boys to delete them.â
Police said that the Prosecuting Attorneyâs Office will review the SROâs report âfor possible offenses against the juvenile females.â
