The pictures and videos soon spread to Pornhub, one of the largest pornography sites on the Internet. “I actually ended up getting on a train, but my friends stopped me,” she said. Rachel told me that she thought about going to another city and killing herself. She asked the boy to report the account to Tumblr. He included a link to a Tumblr page that contained dozens of folders of pictures and videos of several girls, all in similar poses, many of them crying.
Then one day she was in a taxi when a boy who lived near her sent a message asking if she was all right. The next day, Rachel (a pseudonym) checked her social-media accounts every hour, waiting for the pictures and videos to surface. Rachel pretended that everything was fine. Later, her mother came in to say good night. She cut off the correspondence and sat on her bed “in a state of shock,” she said. The videos became progressively more explicit, Rachel told me, until the man asked her to do something so revolting that she refused. He then had her take more photos, this time naked, and take videos of herself stripping and masturbating.
He first instructed her to brighten the lighting in her room, and to take photos of herself in her underwear. Panicked, she complied with his requests. Immediately, she recalled an episode from a few years earlier, when classmates passed around a photo of her in her underwear, which precipitated months of bullying and a bout of depression. Then he sent a link to her mother’s Facebook account and the names of other family members and school friends, threatening to forward the picture to them if she didn’t follow his instructions. The man who sent the text forwarded a nude photograph of her, the source of which she couldn’t figure out. “I was a complete mess, I didn’t trust anyone, I was in complete self-destruct mode.” “I had a really unstable home life, and I didn’t have good support around me,” Rachel told me recently, while sitting on her bed in a fluffy white bathrobe. She had just returned home from a party and was in her bedroom. Rachel lived with her mother, stepfather, and siblings in a midsize town in the United Kingdom. One night in 2017, a fifteen-year-old girl named Rachel received a WhatsApp message from a number she didn’t recognize. "It is unfortunate that an individual or individuals might have violated the terms under which we are gathered as a community at this College.This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Limestone College also issued a statement saying its "primary goal continues to be the safety of our students, faculty, staff, and guests." Officials say they have identified a "person of interest" in the case - who was NOT a student - but did say the person was "associated with the school at the time." On our platform, we strongly condemn non-consensual content, including revenge porn." Pornhub's VP Blake White commented on the situation saying, "Through the years, we have supported legislation that has made revenge porn illegal and have also worked directly alongside local authorities on individual cases to assist in prosecution.
The creep who had the footage didn't upload the video to Pornhub until 2019 - and that's when someone came across the video and reported it to Limestone officials.Ĭops launched an investigation - and the 5 videos were ultimately removed from Pornhub last week. None of the women knew they were being recorded. The footage reportedly captured women from at least 5 different schools in the act of changing, showering, etc. around late 2012 and recorded footage for months. Officials say someone installed a hidden camera in the visiting locker room at Limestone College in Gaffney, S.C. and cops have ID'd a "person of interest." Pornhub has taken down hidden camera footage shot inside of a women's locker room at a South Carolina college amid a police investigation.