Parents Sue School in Nude Cheerleader Photo Scandal

they forget, its not child porn if there all minors. The school should fight back. Just because these idiots took these pictures, they act like its everyone else fault their girls are sluts. Maybe they should be charged with soliciting their children. They did after all require them to go to school everyday were the photos were taken.

The girls are dumb, and they obviously got thoes genes from the parents.

This story and all the comments submitted remind me of one of those bad-ass "mean girl" afterschool movies that are on TV where the popular girl manipulates and controls everything, everyone is clueless as to what is happening, but then somehow at the end, good wins over evil and the "bad girl" gets what is coming to her.

These "bad girls" should be punished, not by the parents or the schools. Well, actually they should be dismissed from the schools.
The courts should not sue the school, the school wasn't negligent and did not have anything to do with this, except after the pictures had been distributed.

Parents can only do SO MUCH with their daughters. In the end it is the girls choices and decision making process that determines the outcome.

Usually there is one person, a leader, that seems to be more popular and is behind something like this. Well, at least in the stereo-typed movies. This person seems to control or influence the action of the others.

So the person who started this whole mess needs to be punished to the limit of the law which isn't much, maybe a fine and some jail time or community service.

What would work the best to serve as an example to the rest of the teenage world, because this kind of BS goes on everyday everywhere acrosss the USA, is public exposure and humiliation.

I think the most humiliating thing I saw on TV this year, is when Elliott Spitzer had to get up front of national network TV, his wife at his side, and confess to his wrongdoing, resign from being New York's governor, just for having sex with a girl young enough to be his own daughter.

The cheerleaders who were behind this scheme should be exposed, and not literally speaking, humiliated before the public,
then loose their pom poms, and be made to do community service.

Maybe this would send a strong message to others and serve as an example of what NOT to do.

just what this nation needs: another frivilous lawsuit over adults not raising their kids with a proper set of values. Sounds so familiar.

LOL I don't even know where to begin not just with the article or punish let alone the comments. Especially John and Hugs4ever I mean talk about needing to get a grip on reality. Thanks to Clinton we have lost all sight of common sense & values these days. Now you can be indebt of to your eye balls drowning in it & as long as you have a nice house & expensive car your successful while those who live within their budgets and process as their careers do are seen as failures. Common sense should have told anyone with a brain let alone that uses theirs that there are always pros & cons or risks when doing something. Taking pictures of your self let alone sending them to a friend or partner opens up the door for them to get out but the punishment was not fair & especially anyone passing the pictures over 18 should be hit with child porn. The pictures & them getting out I'm sure is bad but its another when obviously someone they sent it to betrayed them by sending them to someone else without knowledge or consent. Guys like John & hugs4ever who thing they rule the world or that women are here to be slaves to bend at a man's call it's a wonder any women still find men attractive with the likes of these morons. Taking your picture nake or not shouldnt be a big deal nudity shouldnt be but we're so backwards these days & lost all sense of value & morals that we have lost sight of reality & that is why the world is in the tank. Everyone get off your high horses we've all made mistakes we wish could be taken back but we can't. Its guys like John & hugs & events like this or leaving when a girl is pregnant that make women insecure & think being 40 pounds like Paris Hilton or The olsen twins is some how sexy & attractive. The internet opened the doors to alot of easy money of the talentless & lazy who just have to open a website & get nakes & smucks like the football jocks & hugs after their short careers in high school sports end will spend their lives spanking it to amatuer porn sites. Get a life.

First off is it the school's fault? These girls I'm sure have parents who bought these phones for communication, not sexual photographs to be taken and spread out over the airwaves of the internet. Our blame should not be the school, parents, it should be, the way our world allows this type of behavior to be deemed and allowed. We must get the control back of our country and restore it's values and princibles.

This is to Carolyn:

It was wonderful having you relate how pretty you were in high school, and how smart, not to mention your enlightened "far-left" political brilliance. With those attributes, I'm shocked that you were "tormented, bullied or ignored" and sorry you are understandably depressed.

Apparently some people still don't appreciate your combination of narcissism and stupidity.

THAT IS GAUL THE SCHOOL DID NOT TAKE THE PICTURES THESE YOUNG SLEAZBAGS DID IT TO THEM SELVES

I can't stand these parent's who place fault on schools, society and others for the mistakes they have made by raising children
with bad judgement.

YOU DID IT!!! WHY SHOULD THE REST OF US PAY
FOR YOUR MISTAKE OF A CHILD????

These girls did something stupid. "They" sent nude pics to "their" boyfriends who are "guys" and these "guys" will show off what "they" have because their "guys" and what "their girls" friends will do! These parents should feel stupid and embarrassed that "their "daughters did this stupid thing and these parents should hide under a rock. This is a parent issue, when did you "parents" tell your "daughters" it was OK to post "their" nude bodies on "their" cell phones and send it to "their" boyfriends, or anyone else for that matter. HELLO! Is this the boyfriends fault? NO! It's you parents and your daughters. Thanks goodness the school district is smart enough to hold someone accountable for what they do, they parents sure aren't!.

If the guys on the football team get charged with possession of child pornography, then I hope the girls in the photos get equal charges pressed against them for distribution of child pornography. They should drop this all together and count their losses.

Larry44: EXCEPT AND EMBRACE? First of all, how about using the word ACCEPT instead, since that is what you are trying to say. Secondly, why should I accept and embrace the slutty behaviour of today's youth? When I've raised my children to act better than that? I REFUSE to accept or embrace the actions of stupid children who's parents caused the problem in the first place by thinking that their kids need all of the stupid technology out there! My teenager has a very basic cell, and it's prepaid. If he wants to use it, he buys the time. There are NO picture capabilities, neither to send nor to receive. Problem solved. My brother got his kids cell phones with every bell and whistle when they were in elementary school, and both kids have been suspended for their use at school. One because she took pictures in her underwear, and the other for distributing them. Stupid parents who are too lazy or too stuck to their own technology need to be shot.

These parents somehow think that if others are punished, then the little darlings they raised are not so bad. Let's face it Mom and Dad, you child suffers from PPS.
Hey somebody has to grow up to be a stripper.






PPS= Poor Parenting Skills

I'm trying to figure out why the school is involved at all. Were the pics taken at school? Circulated by staff? These days, a HUGE majority of the kids have cell phones. The school cannot be expected to know what is on every kid's phone at every instant. If the taking of the pics was done after school and not at a school function, I'm not sure what the beef with the school is. If the schools put a total ban on cell phones (which I think would be great) there would be riots and parents bit#hing all over. Can't win. So in my mind, unless the act happened at school, the school is no more responsible than the phone carrier or the phone manufacturer or the Walmart where they bought the phone. If someone can see it another way, I'd love to hear how.

Strange that people consider mere nudity to be pornographic.

Maybe it's in the eye of the beholder and all those who see it that way should turn themselves in for arrest and leave others alone.

I got sick of the crap happening in the States years ago and moved to Bolivia. (That will give you some idea as to how bad the US is.) I use to love my country and believed it to be the greatest Nation on Earth. Now... I'm much happier watching what happens there as a spectator sport. All of you who support the violence and degradation in the US by condemning me for moving... Remember, it's just a matter of time before you are a victim too. If you cry out, the (X) Patriot Act will see to it that you are imprisoned without any cause or trial. The US is bankrupt and corrupt. Wake up and start learning to speak Chinese...

I am a student at Bothell High School in Seattle and my neighboor across the street is the boyfriend of one of the girls whom took the photo. I heard alot of different views on this, but mine is simple. You were dumb and took nude pictures of yourself that you sent to a teenage boy. That boy was on a sports team that is very close knit (at my school). And your parents sue. Wait, what?! Don't sue my school because your daughter made a mistake.