Canon City School District Investigating Nude Photos

Ghost apps go by different names but appear to look like a standard calculator app on a phone.

He said he would charge students only if absolutely necessary, but warned that consent is not a factor when dealing with nude photographs of children under the age of 18.

It could take months to sort the offenders from the victims, District Attorney Thom LeDoux told a news conference.

Instead, he said parents should talk to their children about healthy relationships and sex and avoid trying to scare them about the possibility of explicit images becoming public.

Police say scores of students at a Colorado high school were caught exchanging lewd and nude pictures.

Welsh said the school has suspended multiple students, but citing privacy laws, declined to provide further details. Of course, we didn’t believe them up front and the more we looked, the more we said, ‘You know, hey, we have to turn this over to the PD.

The coaching staff and school administration made a decision to forfeit the next game. “If you are teaching social studies, you need to be teaching informational literacy”, Welsh said “…

“It’s hundreds, and I mean it was flooring to us how many photos that we were finding on the phones that we confiscated”, Cañon City High School principal Bret Meuli told the FOX Denver TV station.

A letter was sent home to parents.

“Our suspicions are that it’s been going on several years”, he said, according to the Canon City Daily Record.

Capt. Jim Cox, of Cañon police, said Friday the investigation was in its early stages, and authorities hadn’t even conducted their first interview yet.

According to WKBW Buffalo News, parents and school administrators were clueless because the students are using these disguised apps on their smart phones to unlock a vault to stash and share the sexually explicit photos.

The school later said that it would not have been possible to field an entire team of players who definitely did not participate.

The saga began on Wednesday when the school issued a press release confirming students “have engaged in behavior where they take and pass along pictures of themselves that expose private parts of their bodies or their undergarments”.

Aggravating factors that could determine whether charges are filed include whether any sexual contact was involved, whether anyone was coerced into taking photos, or whether there was any threats of retaliation for reporting the incident, he said. Formal charges will be determined by the DA’s office.

Enough football players were involved that the school forfeited its final game of the season this weekend because officials did not think the team should represent the community.

The Colorado sexting scandal now under investigation involves scores of students in one school district.