Middle-school kids forwarded girls' nude pics

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Pictures of naked middle- school girls that classmates forwarded on their cellphones have triggered a criminal investigation. At least one of the digital pictures reached as far as California over the Internet, said Tony Lane, Castle Rock police chief. "We can't stop what's already happened," Lane said Thursday. "It's kind of like a wildfire. ... We can track down everyone who's received the pictures."

Police say the girls at Castle Rock Middle School took naked pictures of themselves on their cellphones and then sent them to their boyfriends. The boys then forwarded the pictures to their friends. Dozens of students at the school, which includes seventh and eighth grades, have already been implicated in the forwarding of the pictures, Lane said. [...] "Our intent is not to throw 13- or 14-year-olds in jail," Lane said. "We're working with parents, kids and the (Douglas County) School District to look at the possibility of charges." [...]

"Kids apparently don't have any clue of right and wrong," said Rochelle Hoins, a mother of seventh-grade twin boys at Castle Rock Middle School who were not involved in sending the nude photos. "They shouldn't have been taking the pictures to begin with."

source: Article 'Middle-school kids forwarded girls' nude pics - Cops investigating dozens implicated in Castle Rock' by Gabriela Resto-Montero; www.denverpost.com/search/ci_5389869; The Denver Post; 9 March 2007