Bradley Bass, a high school principal in a Colorado town, took a tip from an anonymous app that underage students were ‘sexting’ explicit images to each other on Snapchat in April, during the last school year. To collect evidence, he took screenshots of the images (which are automatically deleted after a time) and uploaded them a secure server. But Bass failed to delete the files from his work cellphone. Now, for his attempts to investigate the situation, he’s been levied with child porn charges and accused of obstructing a police investigation, Shannon Najmabadi reports for the Colorado Sun.
Bass has been charged with four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, the same as if he had sought out and possessed child pornography for his own gratification. The alleged victim who appears in the photos and her parents have come out vocally in support of Bass.