The police chief in Saugeen Shores is warning teens that sexting can lead to distribution of child pornography charges.

Dan Rivette is asking parents to have a discussion with their children about the dangers of the popular teen practice. He says police are investigating a growing number of cases of youth sharing naked photographs with the electronic devices.

He says young people often use a program called Snapchat that allows you to send a picture to someone that will be erased within a few seconds. However, he says all recipients have to do is take a screen shot of that picture to keep it.

There are also applications that allow the picture to be downloaded.

He says children need to know they should not send a picture of anything they don’t want to see again somewhere else.