Police are investigating an incident in which a male Eastlake High School student allegedly sent lewd picture phone messages to a 16-year-old female Skyline High School student.

According to the police report, an officer was called to the girl’s home, after her mother complained “that earlier in the day a text was sent to her daughter with a picture of male genitalia.”

The girl said she had “met” the boy two months earlier on MySpace, and though they maintained a casual friendship, “he had been getting more illicit with texts.”

She said he had been asking her to send him photos, but she always discontinued the conversation when it reached this stage.

Through his MySpace Web page, police have learned the boy lives in Sammamish.

In January, six Pennsylvania high school students faced child pornography charges after teenage girls allegedly took nude or semi-nude photos of themselves and shared them with male classmates via their cell phones.

A 2008 survey of 1,280 teenagers and young adults sponsored by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy found that 20 percent of teenagers and 33 percent of adults aged 20-26 had sent nude or semi-nude photographs of themselves electronically.