Boy could face kid porn charge for sexting

WAUKESHA, Wis., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Parents in a Wisconsin school district have been urged to check their children's cell phones after a nude snapshot of a girl was found on hundreds of phones.

Waukesha Police Capt. Mark Stigler said that the girl, 14, a student at Waukesha West Central High School, sent the picture to her boyfriend, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. After the relationship ended, he started forwarding it, a practice nicknamed "sexting."

Stigler said that the boy could be charged with felony child pornography. Investigators have seized computers belonging to the group believed to have begun the forwarding.

"We know it's a hard stance, but how else do we deal with this?" Stigler said. "Kids are being immature and doing foolish things."

The school district used automated calls on Monday and Tuesday to alert parents.