EXETER, N.H. – A New Hampshire 15-year-old faces felony charges after police allege he attempted to sell nude images of his female classmates last fall.

Authorities and school officials are releasing very few details in the case, but acknowledge that a 15-year-old male student at Exeter High School was investigated and charged with distribution of child sexual abuse images for allegedly attempting to sell nude images of his female classmates, WMUR.com reports.

Officials have not said how the teen acquired the nude pictures, how many victims were involved, the extent of the distribution, or whether the teen still attends Exeter High, according to media reports.

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“The concern really stemmed from something that happened in October, and I think we followed it as a school with all the protocols back then,” superintendent Michael Morgan told WMUR. “It still concerns me that something like this had to happen, and it’s a matter of dealing with the police right now.”

Morgan issued a statement to parents when the district launched an investigation into the images last October that characterized the issue as a “social media incident,” according to Fosters.com.

“He referred to it as a ‘social media incident’ at the school, but at the time said only that the incident involved several high school students at the inappropriate use of technology,” the New Hampshire Union Leader reports.

“Several students interviewed at the time said they were familiar with the photos being circulated and claimed that they involved dozens of students. They also said they had heard a student was trying to sell them.” The student’s iPad serves as evidence in the case, and a forensic exam of the device led to an arrest warrant. The boy turned himself in to police and was released to a parent with a date in juvenile court, according to the news site.

Parents, of course, were troubled by the incident.

“Social media is scary nowadays,” Kristen McGinley, whose son attends Exeter High, told WMUR. “I mean, we didn’t have to deal with that growing up in our age, but it’s sad. It’s a big problem.”

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Morgan agrees, and he believes the issue is much bigger than Exeter.

“I think the concern really for me is how this is really not an Exeter problem,” he told WMUR. “It is to me a regional problem, a nationwide problem about anything with social media that doesn’t go unchecked. I get worried that parents and the community members need to be more involved with the permanency of social media situations.”

Rockingham County Attorney Patricia Conway told Fosters Thursday that the student could be tried as an adult and placed on the sex offender registry, but those issues would be determined at a later date.

The story generated a lot of attention online, though people seem to be split on whether it’s a case of youthful indiscretion or something more sinister.

“Child porn is a felony. A 15-year-old knows better than this, not like it’ some first-grader,” NHNativ posted to WMUR. “I just hope this does not get swept under the carpet. This is just a stepping stone for when he becomes and adult.”

“I agree he did something really bad and deserves a serious punishment,” Bill countered. “Just think you’re taking it a little far saying he is on a stepping stone to something worse. For all we know the girls let him take the pictures, or even took the pictures and sent them to the kid.

“I just need more of the story to say that this kid is a predator.”

Poster mrperfect agreed that just because the student did something stupid, it doesn’t mean he’s criminally minded.

“They are 15. It’s the thing to do,” he posted. “Kids should be smart enough not to take the pictures. I did lots of things in high school and wasn’t a stepping stone for me. It’s the years kids are supposed to mess up, fool around, make mistakes.”