West Des Moines Woman Says Naked Pictures Resurfaced Now That She’s Moved On

There’s probably at least one moral in this story for anyone contemplating texting or emailing a vampy photo to a lover.

A 24-year-old West Des Moines woman told police last week that she thought the sexually explicit photos were private when she electronically transmitted them to her former lover several years ago. Now, he’s sharing them to a larger network on the Internet, she alleged, because she’s moved on and he wants her back.

Officer Jason Hatcher sorted it all out in his report on file at the West Des Moines Police Department.

It seems the two were a couple for two years, ending in 2008. However, they still saw each other for two more years, during which she reportedly took several photographs of herself clothed, partially clothed and naked in sexually provocative poses. In addition to sharing them electronically, she provided her lover with prints, according to the report.

Now that she’s living with a new boyfriend, she has had to block the old one's number from her cellular phone because of repeated phone calls. The woman told Hatcher that her former boyfriend still has strong feelings for her and wants her back, even though they haven’t been together for more than two years.

“She told me that she has tried to be ‘just friends’ with him but he wants to enhance their ‘friendly’ relationship,’ “ Hatcher wrote in his report.

On Dec. 27, the woman told police that she received a forwarded email thread from her former boyfriend in which he and another party had been discussing the photos of her, which were attached to the email.

The message field was blank, but the woman thought she received a copy “to show her what he was doing with the photographs,” Hatcher wrote. “She had not responded to him about the photographs, but she did not consent to their distribution.”

He told the woman to save the email on her hard drive. The case has been referred to the department’s detective bureau for further investigation.