CENTENNIAL — District Attorney Carol Chambers announced today she will not seek charges against the Castle Rock Middle School teenage students who took nude pictures of themselves on their cell phones and distributed them to other students earlier this month.

"For one juvenile to take a picture of another juvenile is not a crime," Chambers said, explaining her decision.

Some of the pictures that the students took ended up being posted on the Internet.

Douglas County School District spokeswoman Whei Wong said that "appropriate action was taken" by the school against the students involved but she could not elaborate because of privacy laws.

Chambers said during a press conference that 18 cell phones were confiscated at the school. She said the matter would have been different if the pictures were taken without the students’ knowledge or consent.

"If someone takes a picture of a juvenile or anyone else without that person knowing, that is a crime and we do want to know about that."

Investigators said last week that there were two male and two female students involved. They were between the ages of 13 and 14.

Authorities found out about the pictures after a student told a counselor that he had seen them.