Police are investigating a Facebook page which purported to show naked photos of Edgewood High School teenage girls, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office said.
The Sheriff’s Office was alerted earlier this week after a caller in the Edgewood High School district claimed her son reported seeing a Facebook page which contained naked photos of girls and made reference to Edgewood High School, according to Sheriff’s Office spokesman Eddie Hopkins.
Investigators, including members of the Harford County Child Advocacy Center, found the page contained photos of at least a dozen naked girls.
Hopkins said that it appeared the girls had taken photos of themselves and shared them with a friend, who in turn gave them to a third party who posted them online. The photos were of individual girls, and no sexual acts were depicted.
“As terrible as this sounds, it did not appear that a crime had been committed,” Hopkins said in an e-mail. “The site did not meet the criteria for child pornography.”
Maryland defines child pornography as “limited to children who are under the age of 16, who are depicted as being the subject of sado-masochistic abuse or engaged in sexual conduct or in a state of sexual arousal,” Hopkins said. Those acts were not depicted, and though the individuals depicted are assumed to attend Edgewood High School, the age and location of the girls could not be conclusively verified.
Hopkins said the page, which has since been removed from Facebook, referenced Edgewood High School in its title but declined to name it specifically. He said the Child Advocacy Center will continue to investigate and, in cooperation with Facebook, attempt to identify who created the site and the girls depicted.
We need to see the pictures first for proof. Did anyone happen to save them?
It’s Edgewood…probably nothing to get excited about! wrong side of I-95
“I want to get this boy to like me, I’ll send him a photo of my _______”
A week later:
“OMG, why did he show my picture to all of his friends?!”
Teenagers are stupid.
Teenager: Mom, Dad, there is a picture of me naked on the Internet.
Parents: What! How did that happen?
Teenager: I have no idea. Honest.
Parents: What? Are you sure?
Teenager: Honest. I have no idea. Really.
Parents: I’m going down to that school on Monday and I’m going to have somebody’s head!
Teenager: They say it had nothing to do with the school.
Parents: Don’t care. I’m still going down there and I’m going to have somebody’s head.
Jaguar Judy, your response is so true anymore. Everything is someone else’s fault.
Kharn, Will the new core curriculum fix that? Just wondering.
Hey, what’s the big deal? The HCSO says no laws were broken. Just a bunch of girls having fun. And SickasWell, it happens in Fallston also.
That was sarcasm. We have reaped what we have sown.
I know it happens in fallston…my point was the girls in fallston would be worth seeing! edgewood is the baltimore city of harford county
Only if you are a pervert.
Why not pack your junk and move to Rising Sun?
Sad part is that all the pictures are self sent. If they are sending it out then it’s tough to cry about it when the person you sent it to then posts it. If you send a picture its not private and why people think it will always stay between you and “that friend” surprises no one with common sense. Educate the kids about this and we won’t have this issue. We need better morals.
@if you send it says-
Guess what your moron, they are teaching our children awareness about what they send on their phones, they still do the crap! They just don’t listen or learn! Stupid Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, OoVu, Facetime, SnapChat, these sites need to all be shut down! They are nothing but trouble, not only for our children, but now becoming more issues for grown adults who are stuck in Cyber Drama 24-7! The kids see the parents doing it & they think it is ok too! unfortunately once our kids get bored with these sites, the App Guru comes up with another social networking site for them to be hooked on! Bottom line be in you childs face every day about what they are sending, posting on the internet everything you can do! Download the App so you can watch text messages, be observant about what your child is doing! I have a child in another school who did this same thing, sent a pic to a boy she had been in school with since kindergarden, it got sent to friends & eventually to the pricipal. We went to the boys house & talked to his parents & let them know what was going on, my child was not the only one, the police confiscated phones, talked to these kids. We can’t keep them from growing with technology in this society, but we can sure be vigilant of what is being sent. it’s not easy, i will admit to that! I wish we went back to when i was in school & we had no cell phones or any of this crap!
Cliff notes please? Calling someone a moron because you don’t agree with them?
Sounds like you need to step back from cyber drama with your gigantic poorly structured mumble up jargon.
LOL you’re not from jersey are you?
Yeah, let’s ban every single object of enabling while were at it, cell phones, cameras, you never know, kids may draw two big donuts but it will be close enough to represent big tits so let’s ban paper and writing utensils as well.
“It’s for the children”
@Big Cry Baby-You all need to grow the hell up! No, I was surely NOT raised in Jersey! I was born & raised Cecil County, BTW-that does not mean I am less educated or stupid either! I finished High School & I went to College. My poorly structured mumble was written in a hurry because you are such an idiot who happened to really anger me with your comment! FYI-I am not on facebook, twitter, OoVu or any other stupid site, but I bet you all are, becasue your sitting on here talking crap! You are on here talking about something you know nothing about! Our Children are being Educated about this issue, like I said they choose to ignore the danger it puts them in. I never said we needed to ban cell phones or any other electronics, I said we need to ban these rediculous social media web-sites, they cause more grief than any good! I am aloud freedom of speech! Sounds like you want the drama, I was just making a valid point no need for your rude comment!
Oh, because you were in a hurry that’s a good reason to not make sure you are legible?
Name calling? No one here is certainly saying you aren’t allowed to express your opinion on the subject matter, not sure why you even bothered to mention that? Calling people morons, and idiots sure isn’t helping you, either. Is name calling acceptable in your household? Sure seems to be.
“No need for your rude comment” So because you don’t agree with someone, that makes their comment invalidated? Hypocrisy.
So, I guess you know how to decipher emotions through text too? No one is “anger” with you at all, this is all a political debate. This is how this works, you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen? Amirite?
Ban ALL inanimate objects………………………….. including some people’s brains.