Posted on 04/13/2015 6:44:32 AM PDT by don-o
An Oregon school district has agreed to pay $225,000 to three girls who claimed in a lawsuit they were bullied into sending nude photos of themselves to boys at their middle school.
The girls alleged in a 2013 “sextortion” lawsuit against the Clatskanie School District that the boys traded the embarrassing pictures like baseball cards and that school officials told them to “suck it up” when they complained.
“I feel like it made me have to fight battles I shouldn’t have to fight, especially at such a young age, but I feel it made me stronger,” one of the girls, Josi Harrison, told Fox 12 Oregon Thursday via Skype after the settlement was announced.
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And Josi said it made her stronger.
What is not to like?
I was trying to figure out why the school district was liable....until I read...
“school officials told them to “suck it up” when they complained.”
Interestingly enough, we were discussing this phenomenon at church yesterday in our marriage and family class. One of our pastors is also a high-school teacher, and we were discussing raising teenagers in the digital generation. Apparently, it has become quite common for guys in high school to ask the girls for nude pics, and can get quite pushy about it. On the flip side, a lot of girls will send nude pics to guys they think are cute without being asked. It is almost to the point where they guys won’t ask the girls out on a date unless they get a nude pic first! When the pastor asked his students for their estimation of how common the practice was, the consensus was that about 60% of the girls they knew were sending these pics.
Okay, I was an 8th-grader once. How, exactly, do you con a girl into sending you naked photos? I'm not excusing the boy's behavior here, obviously. It just seems an odd word choice. I can believe these jerks pressured or guilt-tripped the girls into doing it, but con?
"The photos wound up in the hands of other boys who were older and who demanded that more be sent."
Enjoy becoming registered sex offenders, you pervs. Even in liberal la-la land, it's against the law to view naked pictures of 13 year old girls.
"The girls said if they didn’t, the boys threatened to post the photos online and 'show the world.'"
Personally, I think it would be highly appropriate for the fathers of these girls to take these boys to the woodshed and teach them the error of their ways.
Man, I am so glad I'm not a kid today. I hated public school bad enough in my era.
If you don't send me a nude photo, I'm posting that nude photo on line?
I know the feeling, for my kids if I have them it will be homeschool, or private/military academy, to many crazies in the public school these days unlike back then.
Actually you are wrong. Nude pictures of minor children are not against the law as long as they do not depict a sexual act.That is considered art not porn. It may not be right but that is the law.
I assume the demand was for more pictures after the first one was sent.
Ditto...but how do we know that really happened? How do we know they weren't old "unfortunately there's little we can do to help you" which,under the law,might have been the correct response?
And how does one "pressure" a girl to do this this without a gun,a knife or a specific threat of violence?
Assuming that filthy suggestions were made that stinks to high heavens and steps should have been taken by parents and/or police to stop it.But suing the school? I wonder.
With an adult I'll bet you're right...but I'd bet the clothes on my back that under the age of 18 you're wrong.
No, you can find in any public library across this nation books upon books of nude pics of minor children that do not depict a sex act. It is called art and covered by the 1st am.
That is the best decision we ever made. And before we married, it was decided.
It involves sacrifice and a set of priorities that are definitely counter cultural to the rot that passes for 21th century American culture.
I do not understand why they are liable for telling them to “suck it up.” I do understand that they covered up a crime by not getting the police involved. By not calling the police they should and will get their ass handed to them in court.
All they had to do is pick up the phone, call the cops and call the parents.
Something is missing from this story.
Several photographers have become controversial because of their nude photographs of underage subjects.[25] David Hamilton often used erotic themes in books such as The Age of Innocence,[33] which have caused controversy in both the US and the UK. Jock Sturges celebrates the beauty of people in naturist settings[27][28] and states that his work is not exploitative; however in 1990 the FBI raided his studio and made charges that were later dismissed.[34][35] However, due to the local nature of US laws on the issue, books of both Hamilton’s and Sturges’ photos have been ruled obscene in the states of Alabama, South Carolina, and Colorado.[36]
Sally Mann was raised in rural Virginia, in a locale were skinny-dipping in a river was common, so many of her most famous photographs are of her own children swimming in the nude.[37] Less well-known photographers have been charged as criminals for photos of their own children.[30] Some writers characterize many of these images as sexualizing children regardless of artistic merit.[38]
That has me puzzled as well. It’s a problem in our school as well (one of the many reasons we homeschool) and the hard thing for the school administration is there is little they can do. The pics aren’t being taken at school, they spread like wildfire with a touch of a screen and if the parents on either side aren’t stopping their kids from taking or sending them; there isn’t much the school can do.
If the girl’s quote is accurate, I’d be surprised-suck it up, really? Football coaches get in trouble for speaking like that to their precious little players these days.
The principal (who was a coach) and the school district also had to settle a federal lawsuit 10 years ago over bullying athletes.
I didn’t know that. Thanks for the clarification.
I don’t see how it’s the district’s problem. Everybody ought to know nowadays that if you give out nude photos of yourself, they are going to be floating out there permanently. Don’t expect the school district to fix that for you.
A teacher in my county took pictures of boys without their shirts on, that’s all. He went to jail.
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