district attorney tom hogan says they even harassed her on social media, and at school. >> they isolated her, they made fun of her, they did everything that they could to make life hell on earth. >> one of these boys took a picture of two adults engaged in the sex act and pasted, this girl's face on to that picture. they sent it around. >> i just think it is very sad. i don't think kid know what the ram sayses are or what they are getting into. i guess they just don't think about it. >> the case prompted the tredyffrin township police department and tredyffrin easttown school district to come together, and urge parents to watch what their children are doing on their smart phones and even more importantly on line, and social media, in fact investigators originally said last week that within of the students suspect, actually, hid some of these sensitive pictures and nude images on a cloud away from the device, so, a lot of scary stuff here from advice from investigators going out to parents moving forward, chris. >> so hard to know what to do as a parent, investigators seem to be on it. >>

. >> reporter: district attorney tom hogan shows us images can be deleted from your photos but still live in the vault. >> these are perfect for kids who are trying to hide things from their parents, they are perfect for people who are criminals trying to hide things from us. >> reporter: and as we stood here today, as school got out, we watched child after child with a cell phone in their hand. it is just so common today. the d.a. here in chester county, tom hogan, tells us he carries a password for his kids' cell phones in his wallet and he does check them. live, lauren mayk, nbc 10 news. >> lauren, thank you very much. speaking of schools, 22% of students are bullied. that's according to stopbullying.gov. the warning signs include destroyed books, clothes, and property, frequent headaches, faking being sick, and a change in eating habits. on the flip side, there are signs that your child is bullying someone else, including having friends who bully others, having unexplained money or new belongings, and blaming others for their problems. >>> to the state budget crisis now, 134 days

this morning chester county district attorney tom hogan released a statement written by the young female victim in the case. according to police she sent inmate photos to her boyfriend and after they broke up the photos spread around and the boys used sexting and cyber bullying to make the girl's life miserable. >> they isolated her and made fun of her and did everything they could to make her life hell on earth. >> her ex-boyfriend is one of the boy's charged and they face several charges including felonies. >>> it is a dreary and damp thursday across the delaware valley as we look live from sky 6 hd, showing you a soggy scene from the ben franklin bridge and the wind picks up tomorrow making for a blustery end to the work week and david murphy has an umbrella in hand out side of the studio with more. is that my umbrella? >> no, we are looking at damp conditions here on the terrace, i had to put up the umbrella a few minutes ago, looking at stormtracker 6 live double scan, that is the last band arriving in philadelphia and pushing into lower bucks and chester county and although the wes

chester county da tom hogan made it very clear that sharing explicit photos of minors can have very serious consequences and now four boys are learning that lesson the hard way. now, yesterday, hogan used a float chart to outline his investigation, detailing how this probe began last april after a then 13 year old girl sends suggestive photos to her then boyfriends, when they broke up, he shared those photos with his friends, those friends shared them too. soon, the photos were back and forth between trediffryn, east town, valley forge middle schools, and in school officials say that girl was routinely bullied. neither she nor the boys have been named in this case. suspect are all minors being ranking in age from 11 to 15 years old, and now face criminal charges, and though this is the latest big sexting and cyber bullying case, hogan doubts it will be the last. >> from great valley to downingtown, from coatesville, to phoenixville, this is the sort of thing tha goes on every day in every school district. >> and hogan encourages students who finds themselves with these images to delete them

. >> reporter: chester county district attorney tom hogan revealing troubling details at a news conference today about a sexting and cyber bullying scandal in the tredyffrin easttown school district last spring. da says a group of middle school boys made a 13-year-old girl's live absolutely miserable and they're facing charge force what they allegedly did. >> one of these boys actually took a picture of two adults engaged in a sex act and pasted morphed this girl's face on to that picture. and sent it around. >> reporter: the da says it all started when the girl sent a few sexy picks to her then boyfriend. when they broke up, hogan says that 13-year-old boy sent those inappropriate photos to a bunch of his friends. >> they then push them out to the entire world and now these pictures are out everywhere. >> reporter: hogan says it didn't stop with the second ting. they cyber bullied the 13-year-old and made every day at school a nightmare. >> they isolated her. they made fun of her. they did everything they can to make her live hell on earth. >> reporter: assistant district attorney cindy m

district attorney tom hogan is warning kids and parents more imj as may be out there after some kids were already caught sharing and trading images. hogan has a warning for any children who might be involved. >> kids, let me tell you this, get these images off your phones. all right? because if you get found with them on there, you're going to be in big trouble. get them off. you know who you are. >> in this case, the boys are facing charges ranging from sexting and harassment to transmission of obscene material. >>> send your child to college and only pay tuition for three years. today rowan university announced a new three-year degree. here's the catch, students will have to go to school year round for two summers. they'd get free tuition and housing for the summer semesters. students have to take the same number of credits who graduate in the four year program. the program would save students about $22,000. this new degree plan starts for students next fall. students can apply for that option beginning december 1st. >>> drexel university has rescinded bill cosby's honorary degree.

tom hogan says sexting a among children effects nearly every school in every district. typically in cases involving one child and another, they try to resolve it but with images are received and shared, that is when things likely rise to a criminal level and they take those cases very seriously. >> every year somebody is driven to despair that they take their own lives. >> reporter: as forkers watching and thinking that this could never be you, maybe not, but d.a. hogan says just keep one very important thing in mind before you click and sent a picture. >> these images last forever. they will haunt you for the rest of your life. >> reporter: now d.a.'s message for kid, of course do not take these pictures, do not receive these pictures. if however you find yourself on the receiving end of these pictures, he says, at the very least, immediately delete it, and absolutely do not share it. reporting live from valley forge middle school, rahel sol machine for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> thank you for that. >>> now to an "eyewitness news" exclusive, philadelphia police wanted

word a fourth boy is now facing charges in this case commas chester county da tom hogan revealed even more disturbing details about this sexting and cyber bullying investigation. turns out, all four accused here, and the victim ... outline his agency's probe which began last april. when a then 13 year old girl text ex police it photos of herself to her then boyfriend. once they broke up, he shared those images with his friends, those friends also shared the photos, and soon they were tracked to trediffryn east town and valley forge middle schools, and may have traveled even further on the web in school officials say that girl was routinely bullied, and yesterday the victim's statement was red on her behalf. >> bullying and harrassment is never okay on any level. >> they isolated her. they made fun of her. they did everything they could to make her life hell on earth. >> suspect range from is one to 15 years old, they face charges including transmission materials as well as hariri asment. over to you. >> justin finch for us, thank you. >>> this secret service offers here work at the wh

>> district attorney tom hogan tells us at this point four juveniles, all guys, face serious cyber bullying and sexting charges. he showed us a flowchart to give you a sense of how the case began. two middle school students were dating. they're represented at b 1 and g. boy 1 and girl. when she broke up with him and started dating boy 2, that's when the first boyfriend began sending those sexting messages between the initial couple out to several other kids. now d.a. hogan says it doesn't only involve students at valley forge, east town and conestoga but it's happening all over the school district so he's urging parents to talk to their children. >> three of the boys have been charged in this particular case, one has been charged in a separate case so there are four boys that we have wrapped up in this sexting and cyber bully in incident. >> reporter: he ban says the children are hiding the sexting pictures in vault apps or what's called the cloud. 30 to 50 cases have been reported in chester county. the assistant district attorney read part of this victim statement from the girl that's inv

in chester county tom hogan says they have even harassed her on soaks -- social media and at school. >> they isolated her, they did everything that they could to make her life hell on earth. one of these boys actually took a picture of two adults engaged in the sex act and turned this girls face on to that picture and sent it around. >> i just think it vice sad. i don't think the kid know what the ramifications are or what they are getting themselves into. i just don't think they think about it. >> well, the case prompted tredyffrin township police department to investigate a long list, the the school district in both agencies joining together and warning pennsylvania parents to make sure that their children know exactly is what on their smart phones and what is going on, social media account as well, investigators say one of these suspects a allegedly hid some of these sensitive photos and nude images on a cloud away from the device so it could not be detect but investigators got a hold of it anyway, guys, back to you. >>> the old cloud thing again. >> we will talk about this again

chester county district attorney tom hogan demonstrating just how easy it is for kids to hide explicitos. >> parents, see a calculate or and they think there is in problem there. >> reporter: there could be, take this app, it looks and works like a real calculate or but event are right pass word it revealed hidden photos and video albums. hogan has a message for teens using these app toss store nude photos. >> kids, let me tell you, get these images off of your phone. >> reporter: he has an equally important message for parents too. >> parents, what do you need to do? you need to get in your kids phones. you need to pay attention. you paid for the phones, you pay for the service, you need to go into your kids phones and check. >> reporter: serious business as "eyewitness news" reporter rahel solomon explained earlier having or sharing explicit photos could lead to criminal charges what should parents do? wipe apps from the kid phone, ipad or tablet, restore factory setting is a and set a pass code so only you can down load apps or approve of the apps their kid down load. >> very good p

. >> reporter: chester county district attorney tom hogan talking about the sexting and cyber bullying investigation that led to criminal charges for kids. and he has a message. >> kids, let me tell you this, get these images off your phones. all right? because if you get found with them on there, you're going to be in big trouble. get them off. you know who you are. >> reporter: but as parents, do you know? have you talked specifically about the idea of sending photos, receiving photos? >> not specifically, no. >> reporter: do you know the password to her phone? >> not really. i don't. >> reporter: maria tells me she's talked to her 15 year old, but she also trusts her. >> right now she's not allowed to send any pictures to anybody. in her phone. they don't take pictures with it. you don't? >> reporter: in the recent chester county case, hogan says trust went bad when a young girl sent photos to a boyfriend who shared them after a breakup. now he has a message for parents, too. >> get their passwords, get on their phones, and make sure they are not doing something that is going to mak

tom hogan say they even harassed her on social media and school, isolating her and making fun of her. investigators say one of the boys actually took a picture of two adults and having sex and posted this girl's face the on the picture and sent it around the school and on line. d.a. says in short they made her life a living hell. >> one of those male friends then do, they then push them out to the entire world and now these pictures are out every where. >> it is shock to go me that these kids don't have any sense of how permanent the internet is and they don't realize when they put something out there, it just never goes a away. >> reporter: case prompted tredyffrin township police department to investigate and join with the tredyffrin easttown school district and in asking parents to machine for what children do on line and on their cell phones. the investigators said last week one of the students, one of the young suspects in this case allegedly hid some of these sensitive pictures on a cloud away from their smart phone device so they could not be traced but investigators were able

. >>> chester county da tom hogan speaking of how far and wide a private photo can reach in little time with very large consequences. >> these images last forever. and they will haunt you for the rest of your life. >> announced four boy charged with sharing sexually explicit photos. suspect range in age from 11 to 15, and face charges including harrassment and transmission of material. >> the four boys were in middle school. she sent one of the boys her then boyfriend intimate images of herself. once they broke he shared with others, and the photos then trace today valley forge, where the victim was a student and east town middle school. abuse also carried over into the girls real life. >> they isolated her, they made fun of her. they did everything they could to make her life hell on earth. >> the suspects nor the victim had been named, but statement on her behalf was red. >> if you are being bullied don't be afraid and don't lose hope. >> words to anyone who finds photos, they do not keep them, delete them, report them. back over to you. >> justin. >> what the poor girl had to go thro

in chester county tom hogan said they have even harassed her on social media and at the school isolating her and making fun of her. investigators say one of the boys took a picture of two adults having sex and posted this girls face on to the picture and sent it around. as we come back life here the tredyffrin town ship police department they launched an investigation and tredyffrin easttown school district also has a internal investigation, both entities coming together warning parents to make sure that they know what is on their kid phones and social media accounts, as well. and at this point it looks like there might be more arrests but police continue to work this case guys, back to you. >> coming up at 7:30 which is in a few moments we will look closer at the teen sexting culture. what should you know about this as a parent and why even the person taking that picture could face legal trouble. >>> we will talk to a social media expert as well as an attorney. >>> we talk about a library in delaware that had bed bugs. >> but it is getting cleaned up now. librarian at wilmington's main