Dozens of schools in Australia have been rocked by revelations of a child porn ring posting and sharing thousands of images of female students online.
Students from more than 70 private and state schools across the country are reportedly involved in uploading the images to a website which allows viewers to “rate” some of them.
Police in Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory said several education departments were under investigation in the hope of singling out members of the schoolboy ring.
The private site, which is believed to be hosted overseas, reportedly features naked pictures of teenage girls, some with their names included.
Detective Senior Sergeant David Miles, from Townsville in Queensland, said officers were working through the images in the hope of identifying the teenage girls and finding out how their photos had been obtained.
