Butner said she learned her photo was posted to the Facebook page in August 2016.īutner said she contacted investigators in January and told them there was an online storage drive that contained "indecent photos of women from all military services, organized by name, rank and even where they were stationed." Woytek and Butner each said they learned that photos of themselves in clothing were posted without their consent. Users of the group included active-duty and retired Marines, Navy Corpsman and British Royal Marines. Through the page, users shared nude images of female Marines, veterans and other women, some of which were taken without their knowledge. Marine Lance Corporal Marisa Woytek to applaud the investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Serivce into the "Marine’s United" Facebook page. She appeared at a news conference in Los Angeles Wednesday along with U.S.
Marine Corps for four years until June 2016. A former Marine and an active-duty Marine came forward Wednesday to say photographs taken of them were secretly posted online without their consent along with nude photos of other servicewomen that have led to threatening replies and a military investigation.įormer Marine Erika Butner, whose image was posted without consent to a secret Facebook page, said that the excuse that "boys will be boys" must stop.īutner, 23, served in the U.S.