Nude Photos of Former High School Students Shared Online

Numerous Illinois high schools, including many in the Chicago area, have their logos posted on an anonymous website that shares nude photos of former students and uses their names. An NBC-5 Chicago investigation — dubbed “The Photo Shame Game” — that spanned two months revealed the schools listed on the website Anon-IB in which nude photos of supposed former students were present.

For three years now, users have shared and traded the images through the site known for sharing stolen nude photographs of female celebrities and Marines.

At least 67 high schools in Illinois are on the list, including several in the Chicago area. The nude photos are posted in threads that are headed by logos of schools.

Many of the schools responded to NBC's inquiry about the site, and most had no knowledge of the site.

"This is very sad and appalling that we are having this discussion. I feel terrible for anyone affected by this," said Principal Patrick Drew of Carlinville High School in Central Illinois.

James McKay, superintendent of CHSD 117 in Lake Villa, said he finds this type of activity to be “deplorable.”

A Naperville police detective told NBC that it’s a certainty that a number of the photos shared are of victims under the age of 18 and at least one case images of a nude 15-year-old girl are included.

Although those images have been deleted from the site, nothing is ever wiped “off the face of the internet,” the detective said, noting that not much can be done legally in the United States since the website is operated elsewhere in the world.

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