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Top school rocked by deepfake AI porn shame - as parents SLAM staff for not raising the alarm on explicit fake pics of female students
A teenage student who was caught creating explicit nude AI fakes of girls at his top Queensland school escaped being kicked out even after he was charged over it.
Now furious parents have lashed staff at Grace Lutheran College in Moreton Bay for refusing to call in cops when the alert was first raised a year ago.
A member of staff instead ordered students to delete the images from their own phones and told them to speak to police themselves.
Queensland Police said the explicit images were first reported on May 27, 2024, before more families filed reports in July.
A spokesman said officers 'worked with the school throughout the investigation'.
Authorities dealt with the 15-year-old boy under provisions of the Youth Justice Act on April 19 this year for one count each of possessing child exploitation material, distributing child exploitation material.
But Grace Lutheran College did not expel the boy over the matter and his victims have now said they feel unsafe around the student.
The schoolgirls said innocent images had been taken from their social media profiles and altered with AI before being recirculated among pupils on Snapchat.
One victim alleged students told school staff about the incident but claims they were told they needed to deal with it themselves.
'The school also asked to see some students' phones and said to delete any naked photos we'd been sent, which meant all evidence on hand was destroyed,' she told the Courier Mail.
'We felt the school didn't believe we were victims and dismissed us as though we were trying to be part of the drama.
'We still need to attend school with this boy, feeling unsafe and distracted.'
Some of the images had been left on students' phones after being screenshotted by officials, the student added.
She fears the images could now resurface in the future and wreck the lives of victims if it's not clear the images are fake.
One parent said the police investigation was hampered by staff members allegedly giving instructions to delete images.
She said the school's response was inadequate and staff failed in their duty of care.
Police told her her they had identified the images' creator using his IP address last year and not through information from the school, and said the college had never reported the incident to police.
The parent said it was unfair to the victims that the boy had been allowed to remain at the school which made students feel unsafe and uncomfortable.
Parents have now emailed the school demanding the teenager is expelled.
But the school last week said it was inappropriate for parents to demand specific disciplinary outcomes.
'The college first became aware of this matter in or around mid May 2024, at which time it took immediate action in accordance with its code of conduct and behaviour management policies,' the school wrote.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted the school for comment.
It comes after a separate Lutheran Education school in the state was embroiled in a nude social media scandal.
Students of Noosaville school Good Shepherd Lutheran College allegedly posted illegal images on Snapchat, with the school reportedly made aware in February.
The incident was not reported to police until May.
Police confirmed earlier this week a boy from Noosa Heads was charged with a single count of use carriage service to menage, harass or cause offence.
