SQI213
11/27/2023 9:02:11 PM
Dear Vicki,
I'm 13 years old.
One day I was at my friend's house. Let's call her M. It rained that day so my clothes were wet. I started changing clothes (in M's bedroom) and M takes a photo of me. I tell her to delete it. She does.
Later she recovers the deleted photo and sends it to a boy in our class. Without asking me if she could. The answer would be obviously no.
I know the boy and I know he doesn't delete stuff. He has many photos that people asked him to delete just stored in his phone.
He also has a bunch of child p*rnography.
I find out that M sent him the photo. She thinks it's funny. I'm obviously mad at her and tell her that what she did was really messed up. She gets mad at ME for not finding the awful thing she did funny, and when I tell another friend about it M lies to the friend saying that I gave M consent to share the photo.
M later tells me that the boy deleted the photo but I'm sure she just doesn't want me to be mad at her and wants me to laugh at the awful thing she did. I'm sure the boy still has the photo and I'm afraid he'll send it to his friends.
Since I'm not naked in the photo it's not child p*rnography so I don't think there's anything I can do.
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If you live in the UK and are under the age of 18 it is illegal to send nude or semi-nude images regardless of whether you gave permission or not. So you may want to remind your friend of this, ensure the photo is completely deleted and also ask her to speak to the boy in question and remind him of the law. Finally, you may also want to question why a 'friend' would send an image of you to someone else without permission, this is not something a friend would do in my opinion.
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