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In reply to the discussion: Teacher on leave after photos from stolen phone post to revenge porn website [View all]Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)3. Has anyone been prosecuted for revenge porn? Is it even against the law?
That is seriously scuzzy behavior, but how is it prosecuted?
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Teacher on leave after photos from stolen phone post to revenge porn website [View all]
Coyotl
Dec 2013
OP
i hope the criminal and bottomfeeder that did this to the woman goes to jail. nt
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#1
Then maybe she can get a job teaching somewhere where there are no students...
LanternWaste
Dec 2013
#17
since the word REVENGE is in revenge porn. wouldnt ultimate revenge be to send a link to a womans
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#16
because it is way more probable than the boss running into it on line. yet up and down the thread.
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#31
even if the dude was doing porn, the odds of him, hitting her picture is minuscule. another we DO
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#41
My best guess- a student stole her phone and did it & then told others about it.
KittyWampus
Dec 2013
#67
I suspect, if an ex-boyfriend posted the pictures to a "revenge porn site," he notified the school…
Journeyman
Dec 2013
#12
What usually happens (as it did at my wife's school) is that a student 'finds' the photo
kelly1mm
Dec 2013
#76
Exactly: "The people who are suffering here are the victims of this society's misogyny ..."
Coyotl
Dec 2013
#52
perhaps because i am totally non photo genic but this whole picture thing has me confused
dembotoz
Dec 2013
#26
I think the concept of sending out nude pictures is insane. I would never do it, period.
bluestate10
Dec 2013
#54
you are right skittle. even though some of us may want to have fun we dare not cause of the numbers
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#44
"after school officials discovered a nude photo of her on a so-called revenge porn website"
Vashta Nerada
Dec 2013
#51
If you don't want dirty pictures of yourself posted on the internet, don't take dirty pictures of
AuntFester
Dec 2013
#56
i liked your other post on this also. that is how i grew up, in that environment.
seabeyond
Dec 2013
#77