Teenager in court for selling ex-girlfriend's nude photos when he was 14 years

A teenager has become the youngest person to be convicted for revenge porn in the UK after he sold nude pictures of his 15-year-old ex-girlfriend for £10 when he was just 14. 
 

The boy, who is now 16, had 170 indecent images of the victim and used Facebook to sell two of them but was preparing to distribute more when he was caught, a court heard.

The youth court in Plymouth, Devon, was told the victim sent the defendant photographs of herself during their relationship but when they split up she asked him to delete them.
 

It was only afterwards that she was made aware of a Facebook message between two defendants where the photos of her had been sold and told police.
 

Officers the seized her ex-boyfriend's laptop, desktop and phone.
 

The second defendant, who was aged 15 at the time, said his friend had accidentally sent him an image of the girl and he asked for more. He paid £10 and put them in a locked file on his computer.

 

 

Prosecutor Andrea Parsons said the girl did not realise she was doing anything wrong in sending the pictures.
 

She said: 'When the relationship ended she asked that [he] destroy the photographs.

'It turned out the photos were then passed on to [the defendant's friend] for a small sum of money.'

 

 

The teenager was charged with two counts of distributing photographs of a child, as well as one count of possession of 24 images of a child within category A with a view to them being distributed or shown to another.
 

He was also charged with three counts of making indecent photographs of a child - 43 photographs within category A, 17 within category B and 112 within category C.
 

The 16-year-old was also charged with possession of indecent photographs of children - 24 within category A and 13 images within category B.
 

The boy who received the pictures, now 17, faced two charges of possessing indecent photographs of a child - three within category A and 22 in category C.
 

Both defendants were given 12 month referral orders and must pay £100 in costs and a victim surcharge. The court also ordered the electronic items were destroyed.