Sexually inappropriate pictures at Neshaminy spark investigation

Sexually inappropriate pictures circulated by students at Neshaminy High School prompted a police investigation Friday, authorities said.

School officials and law enforcement were still determining whether any students were depicted in the pictures and how widely the pictures were shared.

"It's a large number of students," district spokesman Chris Stanley said Friday night. "It's not just one or two."

He estimated that as many as 20 students among the school's 2,540 could have received the pictures, but said it was possible the investigation could reveal the number was more or less.

Administrators learned of the pictures Friday afternoon from students, Stanley said. Students involved appear to have both received and sent the images.

The school on Friday notified all parents whose children were confirmed to have been involved in the dissemination of the pictures, and police examined cellphones at the school, Stanley said.

The incident is the second at the school that involved inappropriate communications through cellphones. Earlier this week, Neshaminy High alerted parents that students were sending inappropriate messages anonymously through the app Yik Yak. Those messages were not sexual in nature, said Stanley, who described them as students pretending to be other people on the app.

The school is awaiting the outcome of the police investigation into the image-sharing and will take administrative action as well.

"Disciplinary action is obviously going to be a big part of this for students who violated the rules," Stanley said.

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