PORTLAND, Maine — Two days after they started getting calls about a Facebook page showing explicit pictures of what appeared to be underage girls, Maine State Police are working on the very complicated case.
The police worked with Facebook to remove that site, but more sites have popped up.
Police say it's not clear whether the pages are being published by one or several people, or why they're doing it. But they say when they're caught, they could face charges as serious as the dissemination of child pornography.
Because it involves Facebook, an enormous platform that's used by more than 728 million people every day, state Computer Crimes Unit Detective David Armstrong says it has been very complicated getting information about the pages — and getting them taken down.
He says the first step was something called a preservation letter — which requests that if Facebook does take a page down, they don't delete the information about it.
Listen to the above audio clip for more of Nora Flaherty's interview with Armstrong.
