Gardaí probe circulation of phone porn image by students

GARDAÍ have launched an investigation into the circulation of a pornographic image of a schoolgirl by hundreds of secondary school students using camera phones in Cork, Limerick and Kerry.

The image shows a teenage girl, partly clothed in school uniform, in a sexually compromising position. Gardaí in the Cork city suburb of Glanmire, acting on recent complaints, initially thought the image was of a local teenager and spoke to a girl from a secondary school and her parents. At that stage the image had been widely circulated by camera phone, both among the students and to older adults, but because of the size of the image the identity of the girl was not clear. The girl denied she was the person portrayed in the image.

It is understood gardaí are satisfied the girl to whom they spoke is not the girl in the photograph, and following initial technical work on the image they believe the school crest is not that of any school in the area. It is also possible the image has been digitally altered.