Police say that when interviewed, the girls in the photos said they gave no authorization for the images to be shared.

That folder was called “I prolly had ur pics.” And when investigators obtained a copy of Berlin’s senior yearbook, they realized that this was a direct copy of his quote in the yearbook. They found a Dropbox account that appeared to be at the center of the scandal, and according to a criminal complaint filed in the case, that account contained Berlin’s high school research papers as well as a folder containing the nude photos of the underage girls.

It took eight agencies to sort out the mess, and investigators eventually landed on Berlin as the prime suspect. Of course, the photos aren’t ever really deleted, and it’s dirt-easy for anyone with half a brain - say a guy like Brandon Berlin - to hold onto your pictures for time immemorial. Police say that many of the photos appeared to be selfies that had originally been transmitted on SnapChat, the app that was supposed to delete anything you shared online within seconds, the idea being that you could share a nude selfie or other potentially compromising image with no fear of it coming back to haunt you at a later date, when you’re older and realize that it was probably stupid to share nude selfies on the Internet.

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