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Teenage girl given police caution for 'sexting' explicit selfie to boyfriend

Teenage girl given police caution for 'sexting' explicit selfie to boyfriend

Teenage girl given police caution for 'sexting' explicit selfie to boyfriend
31 July 2014

 A schoolgirl has received a police caution after texting an explicit photograph of herself to her boyfriend, it has emerged.

The teenager sent the image via her phone, but after the couple had a row, he forwarded it to his friends.

Police were called in because she was under the age of 18 and therefore both were committing an offence of distributing an indecent image of a child.

 

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