A 14-year-old Brooklyn girl turned suicidal when a classmate spread her nude Snapchat selfie to his pals, according to a lawsuit.
The girl — a ninth-grader at Brooklyn Prospect Charter School in Windsor Terrace — says the 13-year-old male classmate convinced her in October to send him the racy picture via Snapchat, a service that automatically deletes messages seconds after they’re seen.
But the tech-savvy boy grabbed a screenshot of the illicit image, the lawsuit charges.
Snapchat alerted the girl that the boy had kept a copy of her picture. She begged him to delete it. The boy said he had — but he lied, court papers say.
In December, the boy allegedly wanted more naked shots of the girl. When she refused, he told her, “I should expose you.”
He then “distributed the picture widely,” she charges in a Brooklyn Supreme Court lawsuit filed against the boy and his parents.
The girl is identified in the suit only as “Jane Doe.”
She “was informed by friends and strangers alike that they had seen the picture posted publicly on Instagram, received it in text messages, and on Facebook chats,” the lawsuit says.
She deleted her Facebook and Instagram accounts. But the picture, in which half of her face and “her distinctive hair” are visible, became so widely distributed her parents eventually heard about it from a friend’s kid.
Jane Doe became depressed and suicidal and “was constantly distraught by the reality of others having seen her nude body.”
Also, she “was worried each school day because she feared other students had negative opinions of her due to the dissemination of the picture,” the suit says.
Jane Doe’s lawyer declined to comment when asked if she or her family had gone to law enforcement. The Post is withholding the names of the Cobble Hill boy and his family.
The girl accuses him of “extreme and outrageous conduct,” and seeks an injunction to have him stop spreading the picture. She also wants the names of those he sent it to, as well as more than $50,000 damages.
The mother of the accused boy said she wasn’t aware of the lawsuit.
“As a parent, I deeply understand the sensitive nature of this matter which my family and I are taking great care to address privately,” she said in a statement to The Post.