Salacious teenage confession site returns with guidelines

YorkRegion.com
May 7, 2014
By Jeremy Grimaldi

The Twitter feed that caused an uproar among parents and educators last month after releasing anonymous details on sexual activity and drug use in York Region’s high schools has re-emerged, this time with new self-imposed guidelines.

@GTAConfession, now using the name WolfofYongeStreet, resumed tweeting at the end of April after cancelling the account following a yorkregion.com story on its activities and a probe into its contents by police and the school board.

However, after being contacted by the York Region District School Board, following its claims students had been identified in the tweets and were in counselling as a result, police said there was nothing illegal occurring on the feed and that no steps could be taken against the person behind the site.

Despite no laws being broken, a number of parents were angered by the lewd nature of some of the tweets and the fact schools were being identified.

Some of the most recent included: “Had a 3sum with 2 guys on my boyfriends hockey team, video taped it and sent it to him”.

Another read: “Accidentally sent nudes to my buddies mom and she sent some back”.

A further tweet read: “i missed my period a month after having unprotected sex but eventually got it. i had unprotected sex again.”

Another simply read: “Cocaine”.

Shortly after relaunching the feed, the account owner wrote a tweet noting he would stop using names of schools, but would continue naming the town or city where the tweet allegedly comes from.

The tweets, from students around the GTA and York Region, are anonymously submitted to an email address and now posted with nothing but the name of the town or city where the activity allegedly took place.

Currently, the site has 14,000 followers.

York police said people should be aware before sending or publishing people’s details.

“Anyone submitting information to these types of sites or pages should be aware that this information is posted publicly and accessible to anyone,” said Const. Laura Nicolle. “Anything that is hurtful or intimidating or would damage someone’s reputation can be considered cyber bullying.”

Meanwhile Licinio Miguelo, from the York board, said the board is constantly monitoring social media but hasn’t heard about any new complaints.

“I am not going to comment on the specifics of what one Twitter user is doing or not,” he said. “We encourage students if they’re feeling targeted or victimized to contact a trusted adult.”