A pornographic photo-sharing website featuring images of Australian schoolgirls is back online 10 days after being shut down by authorities.
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The website caused widespread outrage this month when it was revealed that many of the pictures were of underage students and were published without their knowledge.
Website users request images of girls from particular high schools.
In a thread about Wollongong, which appears to be one in a series, at least three high schools are named. The Mercury has chosen not to name these schools.
There are also specific requests for the “hottest gong chicks” from the suburbs of Dapto, Berkeley and Warilla, as well as the university and postcodes 2517 and 2518.
Users refer to nude images as "wins" and offer to swap pictures with others.
It is believed more than 2000 images of students from an estimated 70 Australian schools have been uploaded since the website was established in December.
Barker College, Leumeah High School and Mullumbimby High School are among the NSW schools targeted on the site since it went back online, News Corp reports.
Some girls who have asked for their images to be removed from the site have been mocked by the users.
"Darling, don't be a slut and you won't end up here," one user posted to a girl who protested. "Once a photo is on snapchat or the Internet, it belongs to the Internet."
One young woman who found a photograph of herself on the website described the violation as "terrifying". The photo was taken from her Facebook page.
"Just to know that someone is out there looking for naked photos of me and doesn't care how I feel is very intimidating," she told Fairfax Media.
The overseas hosted website was shut down earlier this month after Australian authorities raised the alarm about the age of some of the girls in the photos. Some of the students were as young as 15 when their images were taken.
Fairfax Media is seeking further comment from the Office of the Children's eSafety Commissioner.
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