WRPS combat ‘sexting’
Posted Jun 20, 2011 02:00:55 PM.
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Waterloo Regional Police are taking action, after dealing with eleven different ‘sexting’ cases.
Police are working with local school boards to educate the youth, as they have been using mobile phones to share nude or partially nude pictures of themselves or others.
Spokesperson Olaf Heinzel says students need to be aware of criminal implications, and of other issues as well, as once a photo or video hits the Internet, it’s there forever.
He also says that those images are available for anyone who wants to exploit children sexually.
Heinzel says about 50 young people have been involved in the creation, possession and distribution of child porn.
This is applicable if the illicit photo taken and shared is of someone who is under the age of 18.
Anyone involved in this may be charged criminally.
