Pennsylvania Teen Accused Of Storing Hundreds Of Her Sexual Images On School Computer

Pennsylvania police say a 16-year-old girl stored hundreds of sexual images on her school-issued laptop.

Pennsylvania police have filed charges against a high school student who allegedly had hundreds of sexual images of herself on her school-issued laptop. The girl is also accused of possessing more than a dozen videos of juveniles engaged in sexual acts, police said.

New Holland Police charged the 16-year-old Garden Spot High School student on Monday with two counts of possessing obscene and other sexual materials. The girl, a resident of Ephrata, is not being identified because of her age.

Authorities said the investigation began in January, when a tipster informed school administrators that the girl’s laptop contained questionable material.

"The school administrator looked at the computer briefly, saw the images and contacted police," Lt. Jonathan Heisse of the New Holland police told The Huffington Post.

Upon examining the computer's content, authorities allegedly discovered 354 images of the girl and others "engaging in prohibited sexual acts or in the simulation of such acts," the police report stated.

"There are some images of other teenage to slightly older adults that she had corresponded with or somehow got an image of. [But] the majority of the images are of her in various stages of undress, as well as performing some self-sex acts," Heisse said.

Authorities also allegedly discovered 13 videos of juveniles engaged in similar sexual acts.

On Tuesday, Robert Hollister, superintendent of the Eastern Lancaster County School District, issued a statement about the incident, noting that school administrators are "extremely disturbed" by the student's alleged illegal activities.

The superintendent added that none of the images on the girl's computer had been downloaded at school. "At no time did the student download illegal images during school time, on school property, or through the school system," Hollister said.

Read the school's statement.
Eastern Lancaster County School District

The girl has been charged as a juvenile, according to Heisse. Had she been charged as an adult, he said, she would likely have faced dozens of counts of possessing child pornography. Because of her age, she faces different penalties than an adult would in a similar situation and will likely not be required to register as a sex offender.

The charges filed against the girl are "more geared toward getting her counseling and help," Heisse said.

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Comments

[iLdoRight]

08:55 PM on 04/04/2012

What do you think, "Does this girl think more like an Atheist or more like a "true" Christian? ".

[oaoroho]

06:44 AM on 04/05/2012

What would be real good and christian of you know would be to go ahead and condemn her soul to hell and get the stake ready for her to be burned on. Maybe we can get one of the many good church pastors to take a break from taking their busy schedules of molesting and imposing judgement to light the fire!

[J5K]

01:46 PM on 04/05/2012

And there you go again. So for you, atheist is just a synonym for boogeyman. First off, who are you to judge whether someone is a true christian? Your own posts show that, by your standards, YOU are not one. Nonetheless, your mythos preaches against judging people.

And if there is someone who believes the majority of the drivel in your bronze age book of misogynists, well, they would not be an atheist. You'd wager that sectarian differences make someone an unbeliever? By that standard, you are an atheist.

[iLdoRight]

01:44 AM on 04/06/2012

I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say." 1 Corinthians 10:15

"If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church." 1 Corinthians 6:4

"Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment." John 7:24

Atheist are people who are sending a message,"There are no spirit persons watching your bad conduct, so ...."

I believe the Atheist message does more to encourage evil that any of the counter message they put forth can overcome.

If one does as much searching into the Bible for the right answers as I have one should be able to easily spot the Satanics, if they watch and listen close enough.

[agnosticjihad]

04:46 PM on 04/03/2012

Criminal charges? How tacky have we become? She, like everyone who ever had a digital camera, took naked pictures of herself. She needs to be humiliated now? This is a matter for the taxpayer?

[jadeaic]

01:26 PM on 04/03/2012

Viewing images that you see accidentally, and then taking action against them is not viewing child pornography.

[F1rewoman]

11:47 AM on 04/03/2012

If she wanted to keep her acts on the down low she should have bought her own computer. The fact is, it isn't hers, it is the school's and they can dictate what goes on it and can view it at anytime. The same for an adult and a work computer. That is why she is in trouble.

I just don't get why everybody takes pics of themselves and others then stores it on a computer for people to see. Especially, at her age. Doesn't she have any modestly? I guess most kids don't with all the crap they see on the computer. They prob think that is a normal thing to do. That is so weird.

[Kevin Rayburn]

09:35 PM on 04/02/2012

didnt some adult at some point have to veiw these images? why isnt that person charged with veiwing child pornography? because they are a prinicpal?

[oaoroho]

06:40 AM on 04/05/2012

lol, yes, we must demand for the incarceration of said person.

[IfIonlyknew]

08:47 PM on 04/02/2012

Shouldn't whoever viewed this porn be charged with viewing child pornography.
Why is this in the news???? Maybe the schools should stop getting computers with cams on them.

[badboyxyz]

06:12 PM on 04/02/2012

another DANGEROUS criminal off the streets GIVE ME A BREAK

[rjohns3]

01:52 PM on 04/02/2012

The real question here is... why is this not being dealth with between her, her partens and the school? Why is this even a news story? Why does a story like this get any airtime at all...

But we all know the answer to that question....

Two words....

Flash Drive...

[Ben Wilson]

12:11 PM on 04/02/2012

it also has to be said what of the police who look at such pictures. Untill there is a brain wiping pill I don't know how we can defend these people for 'doing their job' when we can put so much guilt on a child for being a child. In this paranoid society I don't follow the logic which exhonerates them.

[kiralind]

04:32 PM on 04/04/2012

The only way I can respond to it is this...my daughter (5 yrs old) was molested by her biological father. When she told me and then the police, she mentioned a computer that she had also seen "movies and pictures" on it. The main goal of the investigators that looked at these photos was:
1. To see if any of the pics on the computer were of my daughter
2. To see if there were any pics of minors on the computer
There has to be someone to look thru the computer to find out these things. And being the mother, I was extremely relieved when they said there were no pics of my daughter but there were thousands of other children. Someone who had to look at those pics was able to at least let me know that pics of my daughter had not been shared with other pedophiles. Someone has to speak for those kids.

[Ben Wilson]

04:53 PM on 04/04/2012

I understand your point, and of course it's a job someones got to do when a serious incident like that happens. I was just twisting guilt back onto those adults involved in this that have allowed an innocent girl behaving in a typical way to face such a furore with such loaded words and phrases. In the same sense that for example by brother got excluded for misconduct because he touched his cousins shoulder at school. She got excluded too because she told the teachers to "f-off you dozy c***s" and rightly so! They really tried to argue it was innapropreate behaviour! Same with the stories of under 7 being branded racists.

[Ben Wilson]

12:08 PM on 04/02/2012

As an honest guy who remembers being a kid and owned recording equptment of course you record yourself! God I'm 27 now and bordom and new 3DS did lead me to take pictures of my junk in 3D LMAO! You can't charge a kid for being a bored kid, I feel so sorry for her, she so doesn't diserve to have the notion of 'child porn' running around her head for being a flippin kid and doing the things kids do. Obviously if this happened in the UK with the age of consent being 16 this would be a rather diffrent story.

[Amelia Petrini]

11:03 PM on 04/02/2012

Yeah, they're WAY over-reacting. "OH MY GOD! She's taking NAKED PICTURES of herself DOING SEX ACTS. AT 16! She needs counseling, stat!" Everyone just needs to calm down. What teenager hasn't at some point taken a camera and recorded what their bodies look like? It's all a part of growing up and learning about your body.

[Hugh Briggs]

10:21 AM on 04/02/2012

Wow they keep blaming the school for not having enough monitoring or 'security'. Where are the parents ? Some kid downloading porn on the school computer and the parents want to blame the school ? /Facepalm

[Dale McGill]

09:34 AM on 04/02/2012

"Upon examining the computer's content, authorities allegedly discovered 354 images of the girl and others "engaging in prohibited sexual acts or in the simulation of such acts," the police report stated."

"engaging in prohibited sexual acts"??????

[William A]

02:14 AM on 04/02/2012

Hilarious. Arrested for possessing underage nude pictures of yourself.

Sounds like a Family Guy plotline.

[kashiskay]

12:17 PM on 04/02/2012

AND other teenagers.

On a SCHOOLissued laptop.

Images and VIDEOS.

Yeah, you missed some key details. Hopefully none of them were of your child because it may not be so funny.

[agnosticjihad]

04:48 PM on 04/03/2012

It's neither funny not unfunny. It's just normal. OMG, the laptop belonged to the school - so?

[CommunistMold]

01:52 AM on 04/02/2012

I'm not sure how this is illegal and what are "prohibited sexual acts or in the simulation of such acts"?

[Michael Steaphens]

02:29 AM on 04/02/2012

I agree with you.I wonder if it's against the law for a teen to have any type of sex.

[alpabets]

03:47 PM on 04/02/2012

sounds like they are saying it is prohibited to masturbate, glad I didn;t know this as a teenager, and to have nude photos of yourself...how sad.

[James Lopez]

12:03 AM on 04/02/2012

The girl saved these pictures on a borrowed laptop?
The school contacted the police?
HuffPo is shocked that a 16 year old has had sex?

It's gonna be a photo finish in the race to the bottom.