He graduated from North Penn High School this year, officials said, with plans to attend Montgomery County Community College.Ĭourt records show Berlin has prior arrests unrelated to sexting. The case was then transferred he will be prosecuted as an adult.īerlin could not be reached for comment Wednesday. Thus, he was arraigned Wednesday in juvenile court and released on $10,000 unsecured bail. Police said Berlin admitted in an interview that he gathered the photos, uploaded them to DropBox, and shared links to the account.īerlin, of North Wales, was a minor when he shared the images.
Police said many of the photos were sent through Snapchat, a messaging app in which photos are automatically deleted after they are viewed - unless the receipient saves them immediately. In DropBox, sub folders were listed as the name of the girl in the photos, police said, and one folder with several images was titled "miscellaneous." Investigators have identified 28 of the 37 young women in the photos. That same phrase was Berlin's senior quote in the North Penn 2015 yearbook. Police said Berlin's DropBox account, where he also stored reasearch papers and science experiments, had a folder for nude photos titled "I prolly had ur pics." "I didn't think it was an appropriate use of our resources to create a whole universe of either criminals or juvenile delinquents for the act of sending one or two images."
"In theory we could have charged every juvenile involved who sent even one image," Ferman said.
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