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St. Charles Schools Identified on Website That Solicits Nude Photos
Users on the website, Anon-IB, request, trade and post photos of former students, according to an NBC 5 investigation.
Local high schools are included on a list of at least 67 Illinois schools in which supposed former students have had their nude photographs shared on a notorious anonymous website. The website, Anon-IB, is known for sharing stolen nude photos of celebrities and female Marines. NBC-5 Chicago last week revealed its findings following a two-month investigation into Anon-IB.
The website includes threads under logos of several Illinois high schools with nude photos of supposed former students included. Users have been sharing and trading the photos over the past three years, according to NBC. Geneva, St. Charles North and St. Charles East high schools were among the 67 Chicago-area high schools with threads on Anon-IB.
"They call these pictures 'wins,'" a woman, who was identified as Jennifer, told NBC Chicago. Jennifer, a St. Charles North High School graduate, said she sent an intimate photo to someone a few years ago and it ended up on the website.
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"I feel angry. I feel violated and disgusted," she told NBC Chicago.
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