Warren Park teenager has been forced into hiding out of shame following revelations that her nude photographs leaked on social media.
The steamy bedroom photographs which are reported to have been taken by her boyfriend during an intimate moment reportedly found themselves on social media under unclear circumstances.
The 17-year-old Bertha Zembe has been unable to bear the embarrassment she suffered after her nude photographs leaked and has been spending her days in self-imposed isolation at her home. When the publication visited her home, Bertha, who was earlier rumoured to have taken her own life, was in a state of distress.
Asked to comment on the matter, Bertha’s seemingly understanding mother Albina Hove confirmed that it was indeed her daughter in the bedroom photographs making rounds. She also revealed that her daughter was keeping to herself and had not adequately explained the issue at hand.She has an iPhone and she gave it to someone to update on Wi-Fi and we suspect that guy and his friend who was interested in my daughter are the ones who leaked those pictures.
‘I don’t want to confront them yet since my brother who is a police officer is handling the case but we live in the same road with these boys. We don’t want to alert them yet and we will take the matter further.
‘She is not opening up about the nude pictures so each day she seems to be revealing what actually happened. There is nothing I can do about the situation, it’s already done and I cannot change anything.
‘If it were me I could explain about my nudes since I’m an adult but ‘She’s turning 18 this year,’ she said.
Social media was awash with different theories of how the photographs found themselves on the web.
However, a close source who refused to be named said that the photographs were taken sometime in February and were leaked with revelations that Bertha’s boyfriend had sent them to his friend who in turn splashed them online.
Other claims similar to those made by Bertha’s mother alleged that teenagers living in the same area leaked the footage after they stumbled onto it when they were updating Bertha’s mobile device’s software on the internet in her absence.-StateMedia