Prosecutors say that Woodland Park, New Jersey, police officer Steven E. Vigorito, Jr., 39, has been accused of luring a 12-year-old girl whom he met while responding to an unrelated call for assistance at her home. Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes said that Vigorito was arrested while on duty Tuesday night and that he has ... read more »

  An unnamed dean at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois is being investigated for allegedly sending a student inappropriate text messages, according to Lincolnshire police Chief Peter Kinsey. The chief said that the texts have been examined by police, who then forwarded information to the Lake County state’s attorney’s office for further review. He added that there ... read more »

An 11-year-old Wisconsin child reportedly received 10 sexts from a school bus driver over the last couple of weeks. The child’s disturbed parents reported the occurrence to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department on Wednesday night. The bus driver, 51-year-old Bobb Otto Bergman of Gleason, WI,  was arrested Thursday as he was starting his bus route ... read more »

An Arizona man misguidedly teaching his girlfriend’s teenage daughter a lesson has found himself arrested. Police say Eugene Foster, 31, who lives with his girlfriend and her daughter, was arrested after allegedly distributing naked photos of the girl to forty people in the contacts list of her phone. The girl, a high school student, had ... read more »

A new poll on internet behavior reports that over half of all teens and young adults claim to have been bullied or harassed online. In an Associated Press/MTV poll of 1,355 people between the ages of 14 and 24, 56 percent of respondents  said they had “experienced abuse” through digital media, up from 50 percent ... read more »

According to police, a group of nearly two dozen Vermont teenagers were involved in a sexting ring which circulated indecent photos and videos of female classmates. The Milton Independent, which first broke the story, reported that five boys admitted viewing nearly 40 images and three videos (many of which were sent by cell phone). Milton Police say two of the five ... read more »

VALPARAISO, INDIANA (BNO NEWS) — Two 13-year-old children from Indiana were charged on Wednesday after they were found ‘sexting’ with each other, police said on Thursday. Sexting is the act of sending sexually explicit messages and/or photographs, usually via mobile phones. It has become a controversial issue in recent years when it involves children as ... read more »