A Georgia teenager says her former high school took her Facebook photo to warn hundreds of parents and students about the dangers of posting racy photos online, wsbtv.com reports.
Chelsea Chaney, who's now a college freshman, says she was horrified when the school's technology director used one of her Facebook photos in a slide with the warning: "Once it's there, it's there to stay."
She's suing for $2 million because she wants to make sure this doesn't happen again.
The teacher who gave the presentation apologized and told her he chose the picture (a bikini shot of her with a cardboard cutout of the rapper Snoop Dog) randomly, WSBTV reported. Chaney has a hard time believing that since it wasn't even her main profile pic.
Her lawyer, Pete Wellborn, told WSBTV that the photo was taken out of context to suggest she was "a promiscuous abuser of alcohol." He also rejected the suggestion that it might be her fault for posting the photo online.
"That sounds a lot to me, like the horrible old cliché of, that's how she dressed, so she had it coming to her," he told the TV station.
The school told WSBTV it doesn't believe it's done anything illegal. Of course, the bikini photo — which aired on TV — is getting a much wider audience now.
SEE ALSO: Student Was Suspended After Putting Principal's Mugshot On Instagram
Join the conversation about this story »
     |