Two Seattle-area high school cheerleaders were suspended from the squad after nude photographs of them circulated via text message, and now their parents are suing the school district.

“The two teens were suspended from the squad - one for 30 days and one for the entire year - after school officials learned of the photos in August.”

“The lawsuits, filed on Nov. 17, say the district violated the girls’ due process rights. The families allege it was unnecessary for school officials to share the photos with other staff members, and claim they were negligent in failing to report the matter to police as a potential case of child pornography.”

The attorney representing the families is claiming that it was unfair to punish the two cheerleaders but not the other students who received or forwarded the photos around the campus.

“There should have been some punishment meted out to those who were in possession of the photos… It seems like the girls are getting the brunt of it.”

Apparently the girls are saying that they took the pictures and sent them to their then-boyfriends, and thought they had been deleted…. but, they ended up in the hands of members of the football team…

Big surprise huh.

Of the pictures that surfaced, one was supposedly taken over three years ago, and the other, was taken in June.

“Their lawyer says he wants the disciplinary action expunged from the girls’ school records, the suspensions waved and an apology issued by the school”

“This is frivolous,” Northshore School District attorney Mike Patterson said. “It should never have gone to court and they (the families suing) should recognize that what happened here was created by their own doing.”

Be careful ladies. Even when you don’t have any repurcussions right away, you never know when something from your past can come up and bite you in the behind a’la Miss Nevada Katie Rees. Use your Head.

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