

Investigators say the file containing the photos was called, “I prolly had ur pics,” which was also Berlin’s senior quote in the 2015 North Penn High School yearbook.īerlin allegedly admitted to creating the Dropbox account, gathering the explicit photos and sending out links to the account during an interview with police.
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The registration information for the Dropbox account was that of Berlin’s, according to police. Police interviewed several people and executed search warrants, one of which returned results from the Dropbox account containing the explicit photos, investigators said. Investigators say they identified other people who received the images prior to Berlin but it was Berlin who actually compiled the photos he collected from various sources on his Dropbox account. Police say they found links connected to Berlin’s Dropbox account that were sent to others to view the explicit photos. Berlin was a student at North Penn High School at the time of the incident but has since graduated, according to investigators. Officials later determined Berlin was the one who posted the photos on Dropbox. Investigators learned the website containing the photos was associated with, a website that allows users to store and share digital files. More posts from the playboicarti community. More students came forward with the same allegations sparking an investigation from several neighboring police departments. Just search Dropbox on the sub and someone linked a huge one a few days ago. On March 7, a teen girl told Ambler Borough Police she found a website showing numerous sexually explicit images of current or former female students at North Penn High School in Towamencin Township, many under the age of 18. Meanwhile, the Corps has trained 200,000 Marines on proper social media usage.A Montgomery County teen was arrested after he allegedly posted numerous nude photos of high school girls on, a file-sharing service.īrandon Berlin, 18, of Montgomery Township, was arrested and charged with transmission of sexually explicit images by minor. In a video posted on Twitter last week, the Marine Corps said the NCIS has examined some 131,000 images on 168 websites and investigated 123 individuals. Another 19 cases are pending, according to the Corps, which said not all of the cases stemmed from the initial Marines United probe. Seven Marines have faced courts-martial, six have been administratively separated from service, 15 received unspecified non-judicial punishments and 27 received adverse administrative actions. The Marines announced last week that 55 Marines had been punished to date for involvement in online sexual harassment. Each service has updated its social media policies, clarifying the sharing of explicit photographs online was harassment.


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The Pentagon has cracked down on online misconduct in the year since the probe began. The other military services reported some of their servicemembers had been engaged in similar behaviors and others were victims. Robert Neller, commandant of the Marine Corps, responded to the scandal in a video, telling Marines to focus on training to fight adversaries, not “hiding on social media” and participating in or allowing online activities that disrespect or harm their fellow servicemembers. On March 7, 2017, three days after the initial Marines United report, Gen. The military has struggled to deal with servicemembers’ behavior on social media since last March, when it was revealed by the online news service War Horse that some 30,000 people had joined a now-defunct Facebook group called Marines United, where active-duty and veteran Marines shared nude photos of female servicemembers and others, made derogatory comments about them and threatened some of the women. Within that law, Congress approved court-martial punishment for servicemembers who engaged in the “wrongful broadcast or distribution of intimate visual images,” typically nude photographs shared without the subject’s permission, often called revenge porn. They would not say Monday whether active-duty or reserve servicemembers were suspected of distributing the content, which was made illegal in December as part of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act. Carla Gleason, a spokeswoman for the Pentagon, confirmed the new allegations span beyond the Marine Corps and could include all of the military services. The latest case, unveiled in a report by Vice News last week, alleges 267 photographs of female servicemembers had been shared online in a Dropbox folder titled “Hoes Hoin’.” Immediately upon learning of the new allegations, the Marine Corps alerted the Naval Criminal Investigative Service about the photographs, Marine Corps Capt. WASHINGTON - Pentagon officials have launched a new investigation into allegations files containing hundreds of lewd photographs of servicewomen have been recently shared on the internet, just about one year after a nude photo-sharing scandal rocked the Marine Corps and the Defense Department.
