Episode summary
BONUS SERIES: Levittown Episode 2 | ‘I’m Also on the Website’ | Bloomberg Daybreak: US Edition
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· · 31 min
Summary
Dozens of young women in Levittown, a Long Island suburb, discover that they have been turned into targets on a pornographic tribute website, where ordinary social media photos are altered into fake nude images and paired with degrading captions. The women compare notes, realize the abuse is spreading through their former high school community, and begin trying to identify the person behind it.
As the harassment escalates, the women and their parents go to police, but they are told the images are fake and the law is lagging behind the crime. The group then starts doing its own investigation and zeroes in on Patrick Carrie, a former classmate and friend who used to troll some of them online. One woman, Cat, finds evidence connecting his online activity to the images and brings screenshots to detectives.
The episode argues that this was not isolated cruelty but a scalable system of digital abuse that terrorized victims far beyond the original group. Even after investigators begin tracing IP addresses back to Carrie’s family home, the women remain traumatized, fearing for their safety and future while the broader site continues to host victims around the world.
Key takeaways
- More than 40 young women in Levittown say they found themselves on a website featuring fake nude images and sexualized captions.
- Police told the women the photos were fake and that, at the time, there was no clear crime to charge because the images were not real.
- The women and their parents began their own investigation and repeatedly pointed to Patrick Carrie, a 19-year-old former classmate.
- Cat matched details from the website to Patrick Carrie’s TikTok and bedroom background, then brought screenshots to Detective Tim Ingram.
- Ingram says police traced one website IP address back to Patrick’s family home, but still needed more evidence and a usable charge.
Notable quotes
“I saw you on the website. I just want to let you know I'm also on this website”
“The first things I saw when I opened that link, I remember, were photos of girls that I graduated with”
“it was a very new type of crime where we it was a gray area per se where we weren't even sure if this met the criteria”
“they did their own investigating, and they did excellent work. They they would make great detectives”
“he didn't even see me as a person, you know, and that sense of horror”
How the episode opens
A quick note, this is episode two of a six-part series. If you haven't heard the prior episodes, we recommend going back and starting there. It should also be noted that this series explores sexualized imagery involving minors and violence.
Please take care when listening. I got a call when I was working at my old job at a clothing store and I see um one of the classmates popped up on my phone. She goes, "I saw you on the website.
I just want to let you know I'm also on this website. It was New Year's Eve 2020, nearly a year after Kayla's father had knocked on her bedroom door to show her the images he had found of her online. And I remember just like walking away from the register and I was just like, okay, like how many other people are on there?
Kayla wasn't the only one whose phone was lighting up.
I got a text. I was parked in the mall parking lot outside of the entrance to the movie theater with my boyfriend at the time who was about to start his evening night shift. Cecilia was tucked in the driver's seat while rain pelted the windshield.
She had planned to drop her boyfriend off at his job at the mall near Lever Town, the New York suburb where they lived before heading home. She said, "Hey, can I talk to you for a second? And I said, "Yeah, my my boyfriend's going into work in 15 minutes.
You could call me then. And she texted back, "He's going to want to hear this."
The text was from a former classmate, someone she hadn't talked to in months. When the phone rang, Cecilia put it on speaker. She said that her friend came across this website called Come on Printed Pics in which someone was posting photos of many of the girls that we had gone to school with.
From the episode’s captions: roughly the first two minutes, lightly cleaned. Keep watching on YouTube →
Topics
- faked porn
- levittown
- cyber harassment
- long island
- investigation
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