Probe into nude photo leaks continues
Saturday, June 18 2016
WHILE police continue to interview underage girls whose names featured as being among 500 on an international pornographic website, two females including a 16-year-old have said their names appeared on the list but without photos and with requests for persons to supply pictures of them.
Twenty-three women whose names appeared on the list have named 13 males, including medical students of UWI, St Augustine campus, who they said would have either received and shared their nude photos, or possibly hacked their e-mail and social media accounts.
Newsday was told the police yesterday interviewed a number of underage girls in the presence of their parents and attorneys - who they have retained.
The police were tightlipped on the investigations.
A 16-year-old high school student, whose name appeared on the list, said there were no photos of her posted.
She does not know how her name was being featured. Meanwhile, a 23-year old UWI graduate whose name appeared on the list and also without photos, told Newsday she wants specific cyber crime laws passed against this type of activity to prevent innocent girls being hurt.
“Right now the pictures are illegal, but what about sharing the list? People are seeing it and making assumptions.†The 23-year-old who graduated last year from the UWI, said that initially she was shocked, embarrassed and scared because she had just started her professional career in the field of work.
“Now, I am becoming more pissed about it than anything else,†she said.
The graduate said that she went to an attorney who has advised that unless persons are held, she cannot take legal action for defamation of character just because of her name being on a list.
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