“He said he would be happy if I put out more nudes,” she wrote. That same day, a boy in her class told her he was upset. However, the damage was already done, and her name is associated with the photos.
Underneath the image of the girl was Blair’s name, but she says the person in the photo isn’t her. When she responded “no,” friends sent her a picture of a naked girl from the Dropbox. She wasn’t the only one feeling angry and hurt.Ī junior named Blair*, who asked to remain anonymous, said she received texts from friends around the same time Madilyn did, asking if she'd ever sent nudes. “What message is being sent out, that we’re being called stupid for trusting someone?” she told me. This is commonly known as “victim blaming,” or the act of placing responsibility for a crime on a victim. She had been tweeting up a storm, and directing tweets at people who were condemning the girls for sending their photos in the first place. But, it didn't take me long to find out.Ī quick Twitter search put me in touch with Madilyn. I received a text from him that said, “Have you heard the stuff going on at North Penn?" I had not. I found out about the Dropbox file two days after Madilyn did, on Friday, March 27, from my younger brother - we both grew up in the school district. “All of these people I didn’t know had seen my naked body.” “I just felt people were looking at me in the hallway,” she said. The next day at school, she left after first period. Madilyn received stares in the hallway, which made her feel as if everyone had. Not one student said they heard anyone telling others not to look. “I didn’t know what I was going to do,” Madilyn said, “I was panicking.”Īlthough some people chose not to look at all, apparently almost everyone knew about it. Students tweeted it, shared the link via text, and even opened it on the school’s public computers. And, like all high school secrets, it became less and less of one as the year progressed. The photos would then be added to the Dropbox.Īccording to the students involved, the Dropbox started at the beginning of the 2014-15 school year. The system was quite simple: The boys involved would send acquired photos from past or current sexts via hookups to a text messaging group, without consent from said ex-girlfriends or girlfriends. The Dropbox included a girl, as young as 14, “spread eagle with her face in the picture,” said one student (all students spoken asked to remain anonymous).
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(If there were multiple girls with the same name, a last initial was added for clarity.) According to multiple students, there were girls with their faces showing, and other girls with full body shots. Almost every girl had her own folder, labelled by first name. In the Dropbox link, Madilyn says, there were photos of dozens of girls in Madilyn's class. But, just 197 miles away, on a quiet, grassy campus, nestled in a Pennsylvania suburb, a group of boys were brewing an eerily similar scandal of their own - only these boys were in high school, and the girls in the pics they were sharing were teens, mostly under 18. It became a national news story, and the fraternity was suspended for three years. At Penn State this past March, members of Kappa Delta Rho fraternity were caught posting photos of passed out, naked and half-naked women to a Facebook page, without consent. We’re used to hearing stories like this out of universities. “It was honestly terrifying,” Madilyn told me over the phone. Another folder, “miscellaneous,” contained more of her photos. She says she discovered an entire folder dedicated to her, labeled with her name, and full of topless pictures she'd sent a boyfriend, when she was 16. That is, until a friend called while she was at the salon, and said, “I just saw pictures of you naked.” Madilyn asked a classmate for a link to the Dropbox, an online file-sharing service, and opened it up. Madilyn, now 18, had heard rumors of the pictures a few days earlier, but didn’t think anything of it. Supposedly, a few of her male classmates had started a not-so-secret Dropbox account, and filled it with 300 nude photos of girls in their class - and Madilyn was one of them.
*Madilyn, a recent graduate of North Penn High School, was at her hairdresser on a Wednesday in March when she got the call.