Crime & Safety

Napa Police Probing Source of Potential Child Porn Photos on Local Website

Police seeking information on "inappropriate" Instagram photos.



Napa Police Department is seeking information on the source of images posted on a local website yesterday and today that could possibly be child porn.

Police said they received numerous reports of images being posted on an Instagram site, “napahoezexxposed”.

It was determined that inappropriate images had been posted on this site.
 
"The Napa Police Department is currently investigating the site to determine if the images were posted without consent or if any of the images were child pornography," police said in a news releaase.

"Instagram was contacted and the site was taken down,"police said.

The police department has received information that there may be other similar types of Instagram pages that are active.

Anyone who locates an Instagram page or site that is inappropriate is invited to self-report directly thru Instagram, police said.

Instagram has the right to modify or terminate the service and deactivate that account, police said.

Victims of the prohibited distribution or publication of personal identifying information via an electronic communication device should report the activity to the Napa Police Department.

If you have follow up questions concerning this investigation contact the Napa Police Department Detective Todd Shulman (707-257-9575, tshulman@cityofnapa.org).                                                                                                                    


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