High School officials being investigated for handling of images in 'sexting' case

[DainBramaged]

Now, based on parents’ complaints, the administrators who caught them might face their own consequences, creating another murky legal issue in the largely untested intersection of children, technology and pornography.

Susquenita High School officials are being investigated after parents claimed pornographic images and videos from cell phones confiscated from students were “passed around” and viewed by more than just those administrators who investigated the incident.

“Of course, one or two people had to see the images to determine what they were,” Perry County District Attorney Charles Chenot said. “But if more than one or two top administrators saw them, there better be a good reason why.”

School employees could be charged with displaying child pornography — the same charges the students involved face — if they showed the images to people not involved in the investigation, Chenot said.

Superintendent Dan Sheats did not return several calls seeking comment Wednesday.

Parents of the students involved contend district administrators “passed around” the images to other employees.

“Why did they willingly view those pics when they already knew what was on those phones?” asked one of the students’ parents. “Keep in mind, a state police officer needs parental signed consent or a warrant signed by a judge to go through cell phones.”

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2010/04/susquenita_high_school_officia.html

[customerserviceguy]

1. I love it!

So-called 'grown ups' displaying the same stupidity that the teens did!

[Berry Cool]

2. "Just LOOK at the pictures these kids were exchanging! It's a DISGRACE!"

"There's this one...oh, and look at THIS one...and MY personal favorite, THIS one...oh, and THIS one's the worst of all! Why, just look at her...you can see her...it's absolutely disgusting!!!!!!"