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Photos of minors shared, sexualised on microblogs
Youth whose everyday pictures are misused have little recourse and suffer similar trauma as sex assault victims
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Tan Shu Yan, Aw Cheng Wei
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They are photos that could have belonged in a school yearbook: girls posing during dance rehearsals and boys at the swimming pool or the track, clad in their sports attire.
Instead, they were found on microblogs that publish local pornographic content, drawing lewd comments that range from the suggestive to the obscene.
