Topic : 01/21 Real Life Gossip Girls

The girls that took the picture broke the law. It is illegal to be in possession of child pornography; no reason whatsoever is acceptable to be in possession much less distribution. There are thousands of instances some of which are doing stories and come across the pictures that are charged. I would say that a nude 13 year old in a shower would be appealing to many people of questionable taste. These girls should have been charged, as a boy would have been had he taken photos of a girl in the shower without her knowledge, especially since this is the second offense. Where are the police or FBI? How many times are they going to get away the crime? That the parents find this to be a "joke" is simply appalling to me. This is humiliation for humiliation sake. What mean spirited girls! They must have really learned their lesson since they did it more than once.

oh my gosh!!! I am just sick for this girl & her mother & family....Taking a picture of someone in the shower, and spreading it through a school of hormone raging teen's!! it is just plain mean, and these "kid's" knew exactly what they were doing. I think the girl's responsible for the pic recieved a slap on the wrist... they should ABSOLUTLY be kicked off the cheer squad!!! Since when do we put kid's who bully in charge of school spirit? Not to mention living in a small town.... that just makes the situation more esculated! It makes me just plain sick.... and the parent's of these bullies should be horrified instead of defensive!

To the family, who now has to deal with this..... I am thinking of you, I was in tear's watching you guy's on stage today... how brave you are for shedding light on these girl's. It is not easy to get on television and broadcast something you wish you could forget... I am also a mother of 2 girl's and can't imagine an ordeal like this.... hope you can find a way to heal this hurt (((hug's)))   

People who gossip gets them nowhere in life.  It only leads to trouble.  Throughout middle school on to high school, I was the one that people gossiped about, especially in band.  I am glad I am out of middle school and high school.  I am glad I am in college.  People seem like they are more mature in college.

I've often thought, if you wouldn't say it to a person, then you shouldn't say it about them.

People gossip, I doubt there is any one person on this board who hasn't, I would say most if not all of us have been the victim of gossip at one time or another, whether at school, work or just in the town.  Most gossip is MEANT to be hurtful (the one with the website saying there were POSITIVES on it, should go back to school and learn to READ a little better), its easy to hide behind a screen name and slam someone. 

The first girl's parent should be angry, and the girl should be as well, but I agree with one poster who asked why did no one in authority EVER see this picture ? Not calling her a liar, I'm NOT, but that made me wonder as well.

As for the other two, it goes back to one of last weeks shows, the INTERNET IS PUBLIC, meaning ANYTHING can be seen, if you wouldn't put it in the papers, or on a billboard, then keep it off facebook and myspace, its THAT SIMPLE, hopefully ll PROVE to people once and for all that these are PUBLIC FORUMS and you can be held ACCOUNTABLE for anything you type, also this MIGHT (hope springs eternal) convince parents that maybe the computer NEEDS to be monitored, you want P RIVACY, move out and pay your own bills. Yes, teens should be given privacy to a point, knocking on their door, NOT reading their mail (UNLESS you have REAL suspisions) or listening on phone calls (again UNLESS you have REAL concerns) betray my trust, the bedroom door stays open from now on, the mail will be intercepted, the mouse and Keyboard, hell the WHOLE computer can disappear rather quickly etc. Personally I have no problem with looking over their shoulders while they are on MSN, and if I can't see it, it probablysholdn't be there.

Should the perents be sued, personally I think the girls did the time, and they did seem remorseful, and they learned a lesson, however maybe it would make parents stop seeing the computer as a babysitter, and maybe monitor their kids activities a bit closer, so I have two minds about it.