Investigation of Facebook for Teens posing near naked in The Sneaky Hat

A new Facebook craze where Queensland encouraging teenagers to post pictures of themsleves nude on the internet.
A new craze had taken over Facebook called The Sneaky Hat contributors to the website could face child pornography charges. The Sneaky Hat trend has been branded a ''paedophile's paradise'' and involves mostly young people of themselves with a hat covering their genitals and/or breasts, suddenly socks, cats, friend’s heads and an assortment of other objects were used to cover their bits,

"We just thought it was funny, but after a while it started like getting wild, out of control. it's no use saying its just fun, it's harmless fun, the consequences can be quite severe,

I set the group so that only people over 17 could join. All pictures of people who looked reasonably under eighteen were immediately removed, as well as pictures with full frontal nudity or porn. Two men, aged 24 and 21, who created a Facebook page for rating sexual encounters with girls as young as 13.

Facebook pictures of Australian children and teenagers had already been found in the possession of child pornography manufacturers worldwide are growing and include a group of Colac Secondary College students who filmed a sexual act in their school gym.

My blog wasn’t connected to the original Sneaky Hat. What people don't understand is that a large proportion of pictures that are on Facebook actually get cached into Google Images. If it gets onto Google Images it's permanent, you cant just ring up Google and get your photo back,'' she said.