Southelba, Just to let you know...
It is not "illegal" to post such a pic were it real. The Supreme Court has stated over and over again that freedom of the press (extended to some but not all electronic press and includes "blogs" such as this) is designed for the benefit of the public.
If one posted such a pic, no crime would be committed and no one would be arrested.
What might happen?
Well, two organizations would have standing to sue the poster:
1. The police agency whose work product (the mpeg from the camera) was presumably "lifted" by someone and the product made its way to the general public. HOWEVER, the issue of reposting becomes goofy. If nearly EVERYONE has the thing, the courts have ruled that it becomes a near public domain product. This is to prevent that 12 year old Vietnamese girl from suing anyone but LIFE magazine for reposting her naked as she runs from her village, or the bullfighter who was stripped naked from the waste down by the bull, or Brad Pitt who's naked form made it all over the place. Sue the original creator for the privacy violation but not the world.
2. The woman who is the subject of the stripping. But then, it would be, once out in the general public, NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE to find the tortous party.
I could go on, but I think I wrote too much.
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