Four southwest suburban Chicago high school students have been arrested on child pornography charges after filming themselves in a sex tape and posting it online, police said.
The teenagers, all students at Joliet Central High School, were taken into custody Friday from the school after a parent tipped off the police about the video, The Times Weekly reported.
The students, three males and one female, ranged from the ages of 14 to 16 years old, officials say.
Joliet Deputy Chief Al Roechner told the publication the sex was consensual but the teens crossed a “serious line” when they posted it to a Twitter account. Doing so is creating and distributing child pornography, which is a Class X felony.
The video has since been removed.
As of Monday evening, all four students remained in custody at the River Valley Juvenile Detention center, according to The Times Weekly.
