Portage teen uses girl’s nude photo as threat for not getting sax
BY Teresa Auch Schultz tauch@post-trib.com April 13, 2011 12:37PM
Updated: August 4, 2011 4:20PM
A Portage High School student is facing a charge of possessing child pornography after a fellow student accused him of threatening to post a nude picture of her if she didn’t give him her saxophone, according to Portage police.
The incident came to light Friday when the girl, a freshman, told Principal Caren Swickard about the threat.
The boy in question, who is not being named, told Swickard and Portage Police Officer Troy Williams that his saxophone broke and the band director told him that because the girl didn’t use hers, to have her give him her saxophone, police said.
When she wouldn’t, the boy said, he didn’t threaten to post her picture but reminded her he did have it.
The boy allowed police to look at his phone, which had nude pictures of a 15-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl.
The original girl’s mother said she had discovered the nude pictures about a month or two ago and forced her daughter to erase them and that her daughter had asked the suspect to delete them.
The other girl said she had sent nude pictures of herself to several other boys at other schools in Lake and Porter counties and she did so because she had low self-esteem.
Williams said in the police report he is trying to follow up on the other students who might possess the girl’s pictures.
The boy was arrested and taken to the Porter County Juvenile Detention.
Contact Teresa Auch Schultz at 648-3120.
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