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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote][quote]Really, I highly doubt that "most" girls out there are taking explicit pictures of themselves. And it just does not logically follow that giving one person a picture equates to permission for that person to publish that picture on a porn site. There's a huge leap there. 
Of course these girls and their families must be angry. These boys deliberately took actions to humiliate these girls and place them in danger. Who wouldn't be angry in these circumstances? If it does turn out that the boys were given the pictures, they broke the trust they had with the other person. And the article mentions 52 different folders: that's a lot of girls allegedly willingly handing over pictures. 
And yet, there are people out there who are saying that it is not the fault of the boys, they just couldn't help themselves. Apparently, when presented with a picture of a naked or partly naked girl, a boy just can't help opening a web site and collecting as many other pictures as he can and making it possible for others to see them, too. It clearly must be the fault of the person who has been humiliated and endangered. 
Being foolish and immature is one thing, taking advantage of the trust of another and holding a person up for public ridicule is in a whole other category. 
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My understanding is that, from a legal perspective, an underage girl who sends a nude picture of herself to another person has engaged in the same misconduct as the underage boy who may or may not have solicited it, but then forwards it to a third party.

It has previously been noted that Dropbox is not a "porn site," but instead a file-sharing site with restricted access, and it is by no means clear how many people had access to it before a McLean student who was forwarded a link to the site reported it to the school 's resource officer. [/quote]

No, Dropbox is not a porn site, the boys created their own site on Dropbox. A Dropbox site contains whatever the owner places on it. It isn't at all clear how many had access to the site, but anyone who did could have copied the pictures to their own computers.

And, sure, that might be true from a legal perspective, but there's a huge difference between one girl sending pictures to one person with whom she believes herself to be in a romantic relationship, and a boy collecting pictures from 52 different girls and placing them on a website that others can access with the right link.  Yes, foolish girl to believe that she can trust a boy, but  breaking another person's trust is far worse than being foolish. The right thing to do would be to delete them immediately, not collect them in one site and invite others to view them. These boys had to know that their actions would humiliate the girls involved and put them in possible danger.

The girls' actions hurt themselves, the boys' actions took advantage of a weakness to hurt and humiliate others.
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There are a lot of assumptions in your post as to the motivations of the girls involved.

And, to be clear, the press did not state that 52 female students were involved, but instead that there were 52 labeled folders in a Dropbox account containing over 50 pictures.  Whether the labels corresponded to different students, or a smaller number of students on multiple occasions, was not revealed.  
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I do not know anyone involved in this situation and I do not live in the vicinity of this school. I have made some assumptions based on my experience of human behavior, as a parent and as someone who has worked with children, just as so many others on this thread have made assumptions. I only know what was written in the Post article, which referred to the site the boys created as a porn site and noted the number of folders and the fact that the account had been "circulating among students."

Again, it is quite a different thing to send one person a picture of oneself than it is to collect photos and make it possible for others to view them, knowing it would be embarrassing to those pictured and put  those pictured in a situation that could possibly put them in danger.

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