Nude photographs that were shared on shut-down revenge porn Facebook group Marines United are now being sold on the dark web

Nude photographs that were shared on shut-down revenge porn Facebook group Marines United are now being sold on the dark web

Nude photographs that were shared on the now shut-down Marines United Facebook group are being sold on the dark web. Despite an ongoing investigation and the shaming of some of the 30,000 involved in spreading the explicit content without subjects' consent, the images are still circulating online and can now be bought. They are listed on the 'deep web' site AlphaBay, according to a Daily Beast investigation. One set titled 'Marines United Nudes/ Naughty America: Marine United Babes/ Reality Kings: Marine United Black B******' is being sold for £30 ($37.50). They are advertised on the hidden Facebook group Marines United (214) which investigators say was created by civilians posing as the infamous Marines who set up the first group to squeeze money out of the international scandal. The photographs include revealing photographs of Marines' former girlfriends and some images taken on bases without the subject's knowledge. Another group still exists on Facebook under the title Marines Unchained. There, members refer tauntingly to 'wooks', a derogatory name male members of the trend prescribe to female Marines. AlphaBay is a hub for online black markets. Users buy and sell murder, babies, drugs and child pornography. The original Marines United Facebook group was thrust in to the spotlight and globally admonished in January after an anonymous military internet contractor blew the whistle on it. The group's 30,000 members had been posting photographs of female Marines and other servicewomen alongside equally exposing images of civilians without their knowledge or consent. The images were accompanied often with explicit comments and sexual taunts. The page was exposed by the military website War Horse. Several investigations since have cast light on the depravity of its contents. The Naval Criminal Investigation Service launched an investigation into the group's activity and the first perpetrators have been punished. Unscrupulous trolls determined to keep it going have created a handful of identical pages since the first was shut down. One's creator was unmasked but he said he merely set it up to catch the true culprits who authorities are struggling to find given the clandestine nature of their internet activity. They were a non-commissioned officer and a junior enlisted service member who both belonged to the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, at Camp Pendleton in California. They were punished for posting explicit comments about one of their seniors. They had their pay downgraded and had their duties restricted. Dozens more involved in the group have been identified and are being investigated. They were closed in on after brave female victims whose images were among those posted spoke out. Kelsie Stone is among women who had photographs she share with an ex-boyfriend posted on the group. After having her photographs shared, she said she was contacted by other Marines calling her a whore or telling her they liked what they saw. 'Some days I don't want to leave my house,' she said of the ordeal. Elle Audra, left the Marine Corps as a corporal in 2010 and is now a model, and believes that nude photos of her were also posted on the Facebook page. Audra told Marine Corps Times that she receives messages that generally say something like 'Where were you when I was in? I would've f***** you too?' She said that the scariest message she received was from a man who said he knew when and where she had deployed, and who asked if she would have sex with him. The issue was brought before the Senate Armed Services Committee last month where officials implored the Marines to enforce harsh punishments on those found to have been involved. 'It's time to get serious about this,' Representative Jackie Speier after hearing from military officials how they planned to respond to the scandal by beefing up their social media policies. This is about service members deliberately trying to degrade, humiliate, and threaten fellow service members. 'They encouraged stalking, distributed stolen intimate photos, and have reduced their comrades to a collection of parts,' she said.

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