The student didn't want to be identified for fear of getting embroiled in the scandal. This could lead to felony charges of distribution of child pornography, cyber harassment and child exploitation.Ī 2015 Burrillville High School graduate said the sharing of sexual images of female students has been going on for at least two years. There were three more folders on the site: "Requests," for sharing more graphic content from certain girls "random" sexually explicit content and "unknown," which asked other users to identify the images of known female students. 26, just three months earlier.ĭetectives questioned at least 42 of the girls last month and discovered that most of them were underage when the photos were taken, even as young as 13, according to the affidavit. Some of the girls had already reported that their images were being actively distributed within the Dropbox platform, as well as other places online, according to the affidavit. Police found that this one was set up anonymously on Feb. Most of the girls live or have lived in Burrillville, according to the investigation.ĭropbox is a free online storage service that allows users to share and store files such as photos, documents and videos. Once opened, police discovered 48 individual sub-folders, most labeled with the names or nicknames of different female students - and containing as many as 14 different sexually explicit images or videos of each girl, according to the affidavit by Inspector Michael Bouchard. A boy at the school gave the administration a link to the Dropbox, which was turned over to the police. Vice Principal David Alba notified police on May 25 about the discovery of an "online school Dropbox" that showed graphic images of several girls at the high school, according to an affidavit supporting a search warrant. Police are investigating who has been posting and sharing online sexually explicit photos and videos of more than 40 girls from Burrillville High School.
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