Woman Sues Town, School Chiefs In Nude Sexting Case

[The Straight Story]

Woman Sues Town, School Chiefs In Nude Sexting Case
Stoughton Girl Was 14, Says Harassment Drove Her To Attempt Suicide


BOSTON -- A former Stoughton High School student is filing a lawsuit against the school principal, the town and its school superintendent for allegedly failing to protect her from harassment from other students when she was a 14-year-old freshman and a boy at the school sent nude pictures of her around the school.

The student, now 18 and attending college out of state, is identified only as “Jane” in the lawsuit, which was filed in Norfolk Superior Court on Thursday.

In the suit, she said she was a 14-year-old freshman attending the high school when a 17-year-old junior at the school identified as “R.J.” solicited nude photographs of her and then “distributed them to numerous friends and classmates at Stoughton High School using his cellphone and the Internet.”

As a result, Jane said she was “subjected to relentless and unremitting sexual harassment from the students at Stoughton High School.”

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/r/29899430/detail.html

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Ok, she was 14 but she WILLINGLY posed for nude pictures?

Wouldn't that be considered child porn?

[LiberalFighter]

3. I believe minors aren't considered able to provide consent.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Why was no one charged with a crime?

[saras]

6. Maybe because it would stupidly ruin lives already horribly damaged for what is ultimately trivial?

I can't imagine a generation of teenagers anywhere in history who wouldn't have taken and shared pictures of themselves if they had the means available. I'm old enough to remember a hell of a lot of Polaroids that people wished they hadn't had taken at parties, and I wasn't a party rat by ANY means.

[Kaleva]

2. A boy in town got busted today for sending nude pics of himself to a girl

The girl ( I heard she's in the 7th grade) had been sending nude pics of herself to him so she's in hot water too. Apparently, the boy had lost his cell phone which had the pics, someone found it, saw the pics and turned the phone in to the state police.

[MADem]

5. Well, "Jane" was an idiot, for starters. "RJ" was a distributor of child porn, technically.

I don't see how the town was to stop all that--the one who could have stopped it was the little nitwit taking naked pictures of herself with her cellphone.

Unless the school issues phones to every student, and monitors their contents, I can't see how they can control the behavior of students, or be responsible for data and text exchanges.

Take some responsibility, "Jane." Don't act like a tramputa and you will not be treated like one.

Self-respect is something kids just aren't learning these days.

If I am wrong about this I'll take back my comments, but I think something does not add up here, and I am wondering where the hell "Jane's" parents were in all this.

Why weren't they yelling at the principal, the guidance counselors, and filing a formal police report on behalf of their MINOR daughter? Did she tell them of this alleged bullying? Did they even know about the photos? Why didn't they step in and take this to the the attorney general? Cases surrounding the whole 'sexting' craze have been in the news for several years now. In many localities, kids are charged with distribution of child porn--this can't be news to her parents.

Something does not add up here. There's a piece missing. I don't know what it is, but something isn't clicking.

[Recovered Repug]

7. The suit isn't about the school/town stopping the pictures.

The suit is about the school/town not stopping the harassment that followed.

a lawsuit against the school principal, the town and its school superintendent for allegedly failing to protect her from harassment from other students

[MADem]

8. Well, it's all of a piece, isn't it?

I just don't understand where the parents were in all of this. You'd think they would advocate for their minor child. I can't imagine that a police report would be ignored if the parents went down to the station and demanded action.

I wonder if this teen tried to handle this herself and not involve the parents. There is something just not...complete about this story.

Would you stand by while your minor child was being bullied or ridiculed at school as a consequence of her sending naked pics to some lad? Would you tell the kid to buck up and get over it if this was happening? I think I'd take away the little fart's cameraphone, first, give her a crappy Tracfone, ground her.... and be in the principal's office, with a lawyer, the next day, after I filed a formal police report. There wouldn't be any opportunity for continued harassment or bullying. It would be one strike, and I'd be at that principal's throat.

That's how I'd be handling the situation. A kid suing the town four years later? Why did this go on for all this time?

Like I said--there's something amiss here. I just don't know quite what.