it's probably up there with one of your
worst nightmares it's disgusting
they'll find these images and they will
take it from you who can i trust
these are local perpetrators people that
we know no one is safe
from it
the website exists to exploit and expose
and share
indecent images of women some of whom
are underage
we were almost passed around like a set
of trump cards or pokemon cards
have you got any of this person that
went to this school almost like predator
like
it could be anybody still out there now
that i walk past or that knows me really
well
we've gone to school with them we shop
at the same supermarket as them
they know our first names they know
where we work this is happening in
every part every corner of the uk and
beyond
it's worldwide someone contacted me
through instagram and said we're really
sorry to be the bearer of bad news
but there are these images of you on
this horrible website
my heart literally just sank i
literally felt like someone had shot me
embarrassing
humiliating the images themselves they
were taken
from one of my private friends facebook
albums
when i was on a girl's holiday when i
was actually under 18.
some images from my phone had
been hacked or uploaded by other people
i
posted provocative images on a website
and then
these images are taken from my site
no consent was given at all no one's got
any control here
there's photos taken off of my social
media that are completely decent
nice photos of me they're put next to
the indecent photos of me so that people
can recognize me
i've even seen one of the threads which
has screenshotted my mum's facebook
profile photo
and said who wants to see photos of her
daughter
so people began recognizing people on
the thread the link
kind of spread like wildfire i recognize
so many girls on there
everyone just started knowing about it
and alerting each other
people seeing who they knew in it and
other people they knew on it
because it's such a small local
community it just started to snowball
lots of us contacted the police
ultimately resulted in 30
reports being made to the police in one
day
i obviously went straight to the police
and i thought it was going to be as
simple as getting those images
telling them i didn't want the images up
there and that i hadn't consented to
them
and then being taken down however that
wasn't the case
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the police response was varied some
didn't get a follow-up call at all and
still haven't to this day nearly
10 months later it just seemed like
it was already a closed case the police
have said that it's a hacking
and there's nothing they can do we
rely on the authorities and the police
force to keep citizens safe
and yet we didn't feel safe in our own
town
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so we felt quite alone so we started
taking things into our own hands and we
decided to establish
a whatsapp support group the only good
thing about it was
we were able to all come into a group
and have each other a support
we've really banded together we've we've
written letters to mps
we've written letters to the head of the
police force i feel 100
stronger than i did about it it really
does make you defiant to actually make
change it's about time that we stop
slut-shaming anyone that's been affected
by this
and we actually start pointing the
finger at the people that are
distributing these images
it's not right we're not going away and
we will progress with this
this is a time to start fighting back
and getting our power back again we are
moving forward together as a collective
we are teachers nurses work in retail
we're mothers
and we are real people we won't be
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silenced
you