A 15-year-old girl from central Pennsylvania faces child pornography charges after police say she sent nude pictures of herself over the Internet.

Clearfield
County District Attorney William Shaw says the girl has been charged as
a juvenile with possessing, distributing and creating child pornography.

The
girl is living with her mother. Authorities say the girl sent the
pictures after communicating in June 2007 with a 27-year-old man over
the MySpace networking Web site.

The practice has been called “sexting” for the prevalence of teens to transmit images via a cell phone.

Shaw says the man has also been charged with unlawful sexual activity. State police found the images on the man’s computer.