Dependable relief. Good evening. We b bin tonight with a story involving nudity, technology, and adolescence. A small town in colorado finds itself in the white hot glare of the National Media spotlight because of a socalled sexting scandal. Scores of students, some of them only in middle school, suspected of trading naked pictures on their phones using secret apps designed to hide it from their parents and teachers. Heres abcs david wright. Anybody want to talk about whats going on in school . Reporter at Canyon High School in careful, a shameful silence. Its none of your business. Reporter about a sexting scandal Officials Say implicates at least 100 students. It not what we want our chas to be known for. Reporter an anonymous tip last week exposed a secret activity. Teens swapping nude photos of each other like baseball cards. Up to 400 of them. Theres information out there about this has been going on a long time. Reporter were talking High School Students all the way down eighth graders here. Now several students are facing suspension, including so Many High SchoolFootball Players the schools team had to forfeit the final game of the season. The incident has shaken this small town. I was shocked, hurt. I dont know what the right word is for it. Reporter the teens here say sexting is so common, few of them are surprised. Even those who say they werent personally involved. Were young, stupid, were going to do things like that. His is the d dital version of, you show me yours, i show you mine . Yeah, back when we had spin the bottle we werent Live Streaming it and putting it on the web. Kids have to understand if youre passing this stuff around, youould be indicted for a crime. Reporter a reckless moment can have serious consequences, including in this case, legal ramifications. According to one recent study, most teenagers are unaware that sending nude pictures could land them criminal charges. For trafficking in child pornography. So if these prosecutors wanted to, they could charge almost every kid here with a felony. Reporter which could mean jail time and ending up on the sex offender database for life. Its a real possibility for some of those colorado students. The sexting scandal at canon city high is not an isolated case. In the last six months there have been a dozenen sextiti investigations, a growing problem in high schools and middle school. Theres no federal sexting law but it is on the books in 20 states, withidely ranging penalties. In new jersey, the Prosecutors Office charged 20 male students reporter male students shared nude photos of female students through Text Messages and social media. In ohio ten kids are in serious trouble. Reporter a similar photosharing ring. Just today in new york we begin withh that sexting andal reporter another sexting scandal involving dozens of students. Two male 14yearold students filmed a sexual encounter. That video made the rounds. Reporter the school disciplined the teens for allegedly sharing or just viewing a video of a fellow student engaged in a sex act. The father of one of the suspended students was outraged. Its impossible to believe that your son could get in trouble because somebody forwarded a video to his phone. Thatate has no control over receiving it. Reporter in north carolina, prosecutors can charge a minor for sharing nude photos of him or herself. Koeppening, a Star High School quarterback, pled guilty to sexually exploiting a minor himself. Police found naked photos of him at age 16 on his own cell phone while investigating unrelated claiai. He had sent the phohos to his girlfriend and was charged with making and possessing child pornography. Perpetrator and victim of the same crime. He took a plea deal in order to avoid having to register as a sex offender. Scary. My life could have been thrown down the drain over some pictures. If this is literally teens sharing nude photos with other teens and no one was coerced, all voluntary, it would be nuts to charge them with a crime in connection with that in this case. These lawaw are pretty outdated. Reporter what can parents do while we wait for the law to catch up to the technology . Kids will always be savvyi than mom and dad, always one step ahead of us. Thats the nature of the game. Reporter blogger lit showed incriminating photos. Theres an app for that. In fact, several of them. This is a ghost app. Reporter Authorities Say some of the teenagers in disguised totoook like lculators orclocks. Congratulations on downloading the best private photo app. Reporter photo vault gives users the option of a decoy password to fool unsuspecting parents, presumably. You can set a fake password to access a more safe part of your photo library. The grated pictures . Exactly, should you have r or xrated ones somewhere else. Reporter calculator plus looks innocent. Whehe you open it up and type in my password and hit the percentage sign you realize its a hidden photo album. Wow. Reporter of course, parents could always take away the smartphone. Just in case. Sending photos is as easy as point and click. Kids swap the files in techs or with apps such as snapchat, kick, yikyak, whis per, which makes sharing large some numbers of smiles easy. You give them the flip phone . Ake out your motorola froro 1994, give them the brick. Reporter even thats no guarantee the kids wont get themselves into trouble. Just because your kids dont have those apps doesntean they dont have a secret stash of photos. Conversations with your kids are going to be a lot more effective in the long run than spy maneuvers on their iphones. Reporter a lot of those parents in canon city must be wishing theyd had the conversation, sparing their kids the hurt and humiliation off being victims or theain of being busted. Im david wright for nightline in new york. 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Reporter now the famously private woman talking about her epic struggles with anxiety and fear of public speaking. What fit i dont logically happens when youre having that stage 4 panic attack . Theres a little bit of panicked breathing, a lot of pace pacing and mumbling to myself. Reporter despite being invited to every Glamorous Party in hollywood shed make excuses saying she was too busy. Until one day her sister provoked her. I was sort of going on andndn and on about like all the invitatitis id received. My sister f fally cut in and said, are you going to say yes to any of these things . I remember being very taken aback and saying, no, im busy, i cant. And her sort of looking at me like, thats insane. At some point just saying, you never say yes to anything. And those words really sticking with me. Because she was right. So this became a campaign to say yes to the things that scared you. Yeah, to say yes to t tngs that f faked me out. Reporter for a yearhed take on all those things she work sod hard to avoid. And she reveals in her new book year of yes, it began with an invitation to appear on jimmy kimmel, whom shed turned down so many times before. I tip my white hat to you. Welcome to opa. Reporter followed by a graduation speech at dartmouth. Her alma mater. Dream dozen not come true just because you dream them. Its hard work that makes things hahaen. Its hard workkhat creates change. When you startedaying yes, whatattarted to happen . Its the doing of the thing that undoes the fear. Reporter it was more than public apprances shonda would sayes to. You call yourself fat. I did. New york. And i tried to buckle the airplane seat belt and it would not buckle. You can call the stewardess and say, hey, this doesnt fit,an i have a seat belt tender . Or you can maybe die by not using a seat belt. I decided i was going to die. There was no way i was going to say out loud, my seat belt wont buckle. Reporter that moent was life changing. I hit this point where i realized, i work really hard in every other area of my life, why wouldnt i throw myse jk5 being healthy and losing weight in the same way . 137 pounds. What do you say to people, whatat your quick weight loss secret . Its hilarious everyone kept surgery . Theres nothing except finally reporter as her year of yes progressed she was feeling comfortable in her own skin. But with every yes, she struggled more to find time to spend with her kids. As a working single mom shes unapologetic about setting a strong example for her three quarters daughters. Badasserry. That to me is a huge concept. Is that what you want for your shull. I want them to grow up to be strong, to be badasses, to run the world. Reporter shes frank about motherhood and the dirty little secret working mothers are often too afraid to talk about. That you really cant have it all. I was literally at my daughters first debut in her Little School musical and i missed sandra ohs last night filming ever atgreys anatomy. It was not auestion for me where i was going to be but that was a really important moment at work. And it was a big deal that i missed it. Reporter a big deal in part because Christina Yang was shonda shondas uber heave competitive alter ego come to life. You are blowing my concentration, get out of my o. R. similar. Our sense of work ethic and feelings about relationships are very similar. Dont hit what he wants eclipse what you need. Hes very draining. But hes not the sun. You are. Reporter when christina left grey sloan Memorial Hospital and her love tore pursue her career, it was a major statement. Yet one of the other things you talk about in the book is the fact that she doesnt want to get married. No. She doesnt. You subliminally kind of wrote that into her storyline using your own life as a Reference Point . I did, yeah. I definitely discovered that i dont want t tget married. At least for now. Do you feel like its important for women especially to throw out that fairy tale ending . I dont know that i think women have to throw out the fairy tale ending. I just think they have to decide what their fairy tale ending is. And not go with the standard one theyre supposed to have. Reporter though shondas own fairy tale made its way to a Hollywood Studio lot, her kingdom was boror in her mothers kitchen. I spent most of my time playing in the kitchen pantry with the cans. The cans of tomato paste, peas, corn. You be meredith we were a little kingdom. I remember making an exciting kingdom for me and i told stories. Did you have mcdreamy peas . I did not. Reporter its a more prouded pantry now. Behind this door is all of my reysriters. He grain trust. We have a lot of doctor writers. Joann, fred. Is it true that she wants to operate on anyone who will allow her . Crack open somebodys chest cavity . Yeah, and if any of us are pregnant shes like, please give birth in the room so we can all see reporter just down the hall, another group of talented writers. We have democrats, republicans, all mixed in. Nobody wants to say. R rorter at the end of her year of yes, perhaps most unexpected result is a deeper understanding of her own badasserry. Theres some weird world in which anybody gives you a compliment your response is, its not that big of a deal. Even you, Shonda Rhimes, creator of all this fabulousness, was like, oh, no, i was lucky. It makes you feel arrogant to somehow acknowledge that youve had some part in it. Which is ridiculous. Own who you are and what youvv done. Be proud of it. Reporter for nightline, im juju chang in los angeles. We should say Shonda Rhimes new book year of yes will be on sale tomorrow. Up next here, reallife angels reveal intimate details about the making of the wings. What a Wonderful World music oh yeah when victorias secret models glide down the runway wearing angels wings it looks so effortless. But a new video out tonight tells a very different story. Heres abcs linzie janis. Reporter long legs. Killer style. That milliondollar smile. These are the thingng viviorias secret a aels are made of. But its not all glitz and glamor. The lingerie com any released a showing what goes into snagging a spot on one of fashions most coveted runways. One thing that i do all year long is to work as hard as i can. So i can deserve to be here. Reporter hundreds of models comemeo audition from allll over the world. Nzania. India. Holland. Final cut. Hi, gigi. Reporter one of the lucky few, gigi hadid. The video shows the moment she was selected. What are you doing on november 9th and 10th . I dont know why dont you come join sinus. Really reporter shell break in her first set of wings with supermodel pal kendall jennene tomorrow. 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