

No matter the age, they should know what they did was wrong," said the young woman. What those guys did was very disrespectful. "They made a lot of girls feel self-conscious or bad about themselves and lose their self-esteem and trust, and they can never get that back. Some of the girls were as young as 13 years old when their pictures were shared. It hurts self-esteem and it makes it hard for people to trust each other." "Other girls will judge them, make them feel bad about themselves, make them feel like a slut for sending the picture, for trusting the person. "I definitely wouldn't want this to happen to any other teen girl in high school because I know the impact that it can have," she said. The young woman says her relationship didn't last, but the implications of those images continue to haunt her.

The young woman is among about 20 other victims, who cannot be identified because of a publication ban.

I was young and naive and just sent them, and then that's what he did with it," she said. "Basically threatened to break up with me if I didn't send him pictures. The teenager never imagined one of the sexually explicit photos would end up being shared with five other boys in a Dropbox account. When she sent selfies of her partially naked body, she thought only her boyfriend would see the images.
