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 The Louisa County Sheriff's Office is conducting a major investigation into a sexting ring involving more than 100 teens.The investigation started after a mother noticed suspicious activity on her daughter's Instagram account.Kayla McNutt is a sophomore at Louisa County High School. She says lately, her friends have been talking about one thing."Some guys made up an Instagram page, and they got naked pictures from all these girls, and they started posting them on the Instagram page," she said.The Sheriff's Office had the page taken down after finding more than 1,000 pictures and videos of teens, most of which were sexually explicit."I've seen the page, and there are like 13 naked girls on there,” McNutt said.The Louisa County chief deputy says it seems all the pictures were consensual. The oldest person pictured appears to be 17, and the youngest is just 14 years old.Lori Lyons has a 15-year-old daughter at Louisa County High."I've talked to my daughter before and said, ‘Don't ever do it, no matter who asks, no matter what,’” she said.The Sheriff's Office hopes the big bust will teach those teens a lessonsending inappropriate pictures can go public, and it could stick with them forever."I hope they learn how dangerous it is to do and how it can get into the wrong people's hands," Lyons said. "They'll never do it again, hopefully.”The chief deputy also says it doesn't look like any of the teens will face charges. They just want to educate them on the dangers of sexting.The investigation doesn't involve the high school in any way, and none of the incidents happened during school hours. But deputies have taken 25 cell phones from teens who may have received or accessed the pictures."They came to me and took my phone too," McNutt said. "They're trying to figure out who started the page.”Those phones will now go through a forensics evaluation, which takes about ten hours per cell phone. ||||| Six Central Virginia counties are working to bust a sexting spree. Officers say more than 1,000 inappropriate pictures and videos, involving 100 area teens have popped up online. 
 
 Right now, authorities have two dozen cell phones in their possession to get to the bottom of the crime. When it comes to this activity, Goochland Sheriff Jim Agnew says teens may not realize what they're really getting into. 
 
 "It happens everyday," said Goochland High student Courtney Winston. 
 
 That's what Louisa authorities discovered when a parent noticed something strange on her child's Instagram account. An investigation uncovered more than 1,000 inappropriate pictures and videos online involving teens in Louisa, Hanover and Goochland. The Instagram account directed teens to another site that they could only access if they submitted photos of themselves. 
 
 "I think if people thought for a minute and didn't do that, they'd save themselves a lot of grief…They're having fun but I can tell you colleges and universities, agencies who hire people, including us, look for those things and those are not going to be positive if they're found in a kids' past," Agnew said. 
 
 Possessing child pornography is a felony in Virginia. In this case, more than 100 youth are involved and investigators are treading carefully, since prison time and a life-long sex offender label come with the crime. 
 
 "Know what your child is doing. Do not give them the capability," said a parent who didn't want to be identified. 
 
 She has precautions in place at home. 
 
 "He's not allowed, he's 12 years old, [to] text, go on the Internet without supervision and hangout. It's not allowed," she said. 
 
 Although the activity was mostly among teens, some adults did receive the photos. Officers say they did the right thing by quickly deleting them. Knowingly keeping or forwarding explicit photos of minors is what catches the attention of law enforcement. 
 
 "You're a predator to me," parent Tim Robinson said. 
 
 Major Donald Lowe with the Louisa Sheriff's Office says Instagram cooperated with shutting down the account. He says the websites are also removed. 
 
 "We're trying to save these teens from themselves," Lowe said. 
 
 On April 10, Goochland schools will hold a roundtable with parents about the dangers of social media. 
 
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– After being tipped off by a mom concerned about her daughter's Instagram activity, police busted a huge teen sexting ring in Virginia, WRIC reports. "Some guys made up an Instagram page, and they got naked pictures from all these girls, and they started posting them on the Instagram page," explains a teen at Louisa County High School. The page, which has since been taken down, had more than 1,000 pictures and videos of teens, most of them sexually explicit, and the investigation involves more than 100 teens. The chief deputy says the pictures, featuring teens aged 14 to 17, appear to have been consensual. The sheriff's office isn't planning to charge any of the kids; authorities just hope the investigation will teach them to think twice before "sexting" photos to other people. "I hope they learn how dangerous it is to do and how it can get into the wrong people's hands," the chief deputy says. Deputies took 25 phones from teens who may have been involved, and are trying to figure out who started the page. The teens involved span six counties, WWBT reports.