Redcliffe porn site victim Tiahna Prosser: ‘It was like I had been sold’

NAKED pictures of a Queensland teen have been posted online, after it was revealed men were offering “bonus points” for them.

NAKED pictures of a Queensland teenager have been posted on a vile, porn-sharing site, less than a day after it was revealed men were offering “bonus points” for them.

Tiahna Prosser, 18, discovered three weeks ago she had been named as a hunted person on the site, which encourages men to trade explicit images sent to them by girls.

On Thursday, a naked picture of the teen taken on a boat when she was 16 was posted. The photo had been sent via private Instagram message.

She said it had been taken by someone she trusted and had been posted publicly before.

In the seedy internet forum where men trade explicit images of young girls they have either slept with or exchanged racy photos with, the competitive bodybuilder discovered “bonus points” were being offered to anyone who could share naked pictures of her.

“This site is disturbing, people have had so much time to know about it now and there’s photos of many other people up there, I feel horrible for everyone this is happening to,” she said.

“It’s horrible, horrible. They have got their bonus points.”

Ms Prosser told news.com.au earlier this week that she felt reduced to nothing more than a commodity, by men she had never even met.

“It was like I had been sold, it’s just horrible especially when they want it of you specifically — that’s when it’s really disturbing,” Ms Prosser said.

“Half these people on the site I didn’t even know they existed and they are asking for (naked) pictures of me to look at.

“It’s so violating to know what they are thinking and doing. It’s not something I want to think about on a daily basis.”

The teen has built an impressive Instagram following through sharing progress shots of her scantily-clad, gym-toned body as she prepares for competition.

For many men, it appears that was not enough.

The bodybuilder posts plenty of progress shots.

Ms Prosser competes professionally in bodybuilding competitions.

But Ms Prosser firmly believes sharing such images in no way entitles men to make her the object of such vile attention.

“I’m not afraid to have my body out there and we shouldn’t have to hide them for sexual reasons, when it’s exposed for that use,” she said.

Though to her knowledge no explicit images of her have been uploaded to the site, she said the moment she became aware she was being hunted, she felt like she had plummeted into the realms of porn star without her knowledge or control.

“This is a pretty big website and it makes people look at you differently. I’m not seeking that attention,” she said.

“It is as if I get classed as a porn star but that’s not how I want my future clients or anyone for that matter to see me.

“It’s horrible and there’s nothing I can do.

“I was completely outraged. I could not believe anyone could put someone down like that and risk their job and their life but there’s nothing much I could do.

“I couldn’t tell where it was coming from, so all I could do was tell people not to share it.”

As revealed by news.com.au on Tuesday, the site, which was established in December, is hosted by an overseas server, giving Australian authorities no power to shut it down.

Hundreds of explicit images of young girls have been shared without their knowledge, while others have had contact emails, Snapchat names and phone numbers shared beside non-explicit images, urging others to “hunt” them.

Accompanying one picture is the advice, “add this slut on Snapchat, might be ugly but a good root”.

Users identify specific towns or schools and the names of girls they want naked pictures of.

They declare it a “win” when they get them.

More than 70 schools across Australia have so far been identified as being targeted.

Users were actively continuing to use the site on Wednesday, after news of it spread and police warned they could be prosecuted for sharing explicit pictures.

While there are many pictures taken of girls engaged in sex acts, the vast majority appear to have been taken by girls themselves and shared with others, largely by the smartphone app, Snapchat.

Many images posted to the site have been shared by Snapchat.

Australian National University Cyber crime expert Professor Roderic Broadhurst said many of the images uploaded to the site may never be taken down.

“If those images sit on a database in a foreign jurisdiction, where you don’t have mutual legal assistance, how are we to recover them or stop them moving around,” he said.

“These young women possibly have to live with the fact these images are out there forever, there’s nothing they can do.”

Ms Prosser said she became aware of the site when a friend sent her a screenshot of a picture of her on there she had never seen, so others could see what she looked like and “go get her”.

While she escaped explicit images being shared, she said others weren’t so lucky.

Both she and other friends also featured on the Blokes Advice Facebook page, a private forum that was shut down last month after it emerged its members advocated rape and domestic violence.

“It should have been shut down immediately, as soon as they knew about it,” she said.

“They should be able to find who posted these because they can ruin someone’s life.

“I have had friends lose jobs and boyfriends. I’m just fortunate it hasn’t happened to me.”

Sherele Moody, founder of the anti-domestic violence movement the Red Heart Campaign, said the site was nothing short of domestic violence.

The Red Heart Campaign successfully lobbied to have the Blokes Advice Facebook page shut down through a massive public petition calling for it to end.

She has started another, calling on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Communications Minister Mitch Fifield to intervene to ensure the same happens with the porn sharing site.

“This is domestic violence, you would have to guess a lot of those young women who gave photos to the boys did not give it to someone they don’t have a connection with,” she said.

“Revenge porn is becoming more and more and more of an issue in domestic violence and this is its broadest and grossest example.

“It’s a form of control and power and the guys don’t think it’s wrong, they think it’s funny, and the girls are being betrayed.”

Ms Moody said it was disheartening to see the degrading attitudes of young men towards women on pages such as Blokes Advice and the new forum, when they thought they were in a safe, consequence-free environment.

Schoolgirls are largely being targeted by men on the site.

“The government needs to stand up and say, ‘We will find a way to fix this issue,’ for the sake of everyone of us,” she said.

“They need to work with overseas servers to get this site shut down.

“The problem is, we are not going to fix that issue in this generation of kids, so we need to put things in place to fix the internet problem now.

“We need it as a stop gap until we get new generations of men coming through who feel their girlfriend is someone to be treasured and respected.”

Police have urged anyone who believe they have fallen victim to this site to report it to Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or the Child Protection Helpline on 132 111.

If you or someone you know has been impacted by sexual assault or exploitation support is available at 1800 RESPECT and Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800.

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