BOY POSTS PORN VIDEO OF HIMSELF

A 14-YEAR-OLD boy has been arrested after a porn film featuring him and a girl of the same age was posted on Facebook.

The video was also shared among pupils at school and there are fears it has already been seen by thousands of youngsters nationwide.

The teen, from Cheltenham, was given a final warning by police which will remain on his file for six years.

Headteacher Lawrence Montagu wrote to parents of pupils at St Peter's High School in Gloucester to warn them — though neither teen was a pupil there.

He said: "I am led to believe that this video involves young people from schools in Gloucestershire but not, I emphasise, St Peter's.

"However, I know that the video has been viewed by students in St Peter's and I have spoken to the school about the lack of dignity and self-respect people have who allow themselves to be portrayed in such a way.”

Gloucestershire Constabulary said the force had spoken to the girl and her parents.

Inspector Andy Matheson said such incidents were a growing national problem.

He said: "The practice of posting compromising or even pornographic pictures on the internet is something that is happening with increasing frequency nationally. The current proliferation of smart phones enables images to be taken and shared with ease.

"What a lot of people don't realise is that as soon as they share a photograph with someone else, whether by MMS or by posting it on a social networking site, they lose control of that image, and while the image can be deleted, it could easily have been copied by any number of people in the meantime.

"A very common practice among young people at the moment is 'sexting' – the act of sending sexually explicit photographs, primarily between mobile phones. If the subject of the image is under 18 then anyone who makes, possesses or shares the image commits a criminal offence.

"The consequences can be quite devastating for the person concerned.”

Montagu told This Is Gloucestershire that modern technology was to blame.

He said: "It is very sad that our young people are exposed to such pornography, but it is one of the evils of modern technology.

"We simply have to continue educating the young to reap the benefits that modern technology offers but not to fall into the trap of misusing it.

"We must try to persuade them that we should not want to be involved in listening to or looking at anything that portrays a lack of dignity and respect for other people." (thesun.co,uk)