OMAHA, Neb. -- A woman is fighting access to doctored nude photos of her on the Internet as her mother is prosecuted for manufacturing the pornography.
Twila Bloomingdale waived her preliminary hearing in Douglas County Court on Tuesday on a charge of manufacturing pornography. Investigators said her daughter said she was looking up her own name on Google and found her face placed on the bodies of naked women depicted in sexually explicit positions.
Even after lengthy efforts by the teen, her father and law enforcement, the girl may never be able to get all of the images off the Web.
"It's pretty difficult," said Douglas County Deputy Matt Churchill. "I don't think you can ever be 100 percent positive the picture's removed."
Churchill is a cyber crimes expert with the Douglas County Sheriff's Department. He said a single photo can quickly snowball into many once it's posted on the Web.
"With all the search engines and specialized sites that create copies of other Web sites, and other people just copying the other pictures themselves, it's pretty difficult to make sure it's removed completely," Churchill said.
Even deleted Web sites can still be found.
"When Google crawls a Web site, they'll basically save a copy of the entire site and puts that in their cache. That can hang around for months after the site's gone," he said.
"As a general rule, if you wouldn't want your parents or grandparents to see it, I wouldn't post it anywhere," Churchill said.
Churchill said even MySpace.com and Facebook.com profiles set at private still risk photos being shared. Churchill said more current or potential employers and college recruiters are searching the Internet and finding photos and profiles.
Twila Bloomingdale waived her preliminary hearing in Douglas County Court on Tuesday on a charge of manufacturing pornography. Investigators said her daughter said she was looking up her own name on Google and found her face placed on the bodies of naked women depicted in sexually explicit positions.
Even after lengthy efforts by the teen, her father and law enforcement, the girl may never be able to get all of the images off the Web.
"It's pretty difficult," said Douglas County Deputy Matt Churchill. "I don't think you can ever be 100 percent positive the picture's removed."
Churchill is a cyber crimes expert with the Douglas County Sheriff's Department. He said a single photo can quickly snowball into many once it's posted on the Web.
"With all the search engines and specialized sites that create copies of other Web sites, and other people just copying the other pictures themselves, it's pretty difficult to make sure it's removed completely," Churchill said.
Even deleted Web sites can still be found.
"When Google crawls a Web site, they'll basically save a copy of the entire site and puts that in their cache. That can hang around for months after the site's gone," he said.
"As a general rule, if you wouldn't want your parents or grandparents to see it, I wouldn't post it anywhere," Churchill said.
Churchill said even MySpace.com and Facebook.com profiles set at private still risk photos being shared. Churchill said more current or potential employers and college recruiters are searching the Internet and finding photos and profiles.
