Just weeks earlier, a boy was expelled from Salesian College, a catholic school in Melbourne's south-east, after he created fake sexual images of a female teacher which were circulated around the school.
"These have been devastating events for the staff involved and their families," the spokesperson said. "This has the capacity to affect every aspect of your life from your employability, from your future earning capacity, from your reputation to your emotional and mental and physical health," she said.
"Students must be made aware that this sort of vile behaviour is criminal and that it will be reported to police," the spokesperson said. She said the government's proposal to introduce laws that would make sharing non-consensual deepfake pornography a criminal offence did not go far enough.