'Smut List' Victim Lennis Ortega: 'I Thought This Nightmare Was Over'

It was an online list of nearly 100 names, teenage girls from seven New York City suburbs who were said to be promiscuous. The so-called "smut list" was taken down and is being investigated, but hard feelings and accusations of cyberbullying remain strong.

Lennis Ortega, who graduated from White Plains High School last year and had two children as a teenager, said she was on last week's list, NBC reported. The 20-year-old said she'd been bullied in the past, but not like this.

"I scrolled down and my name is there," she told the network. "They were saying ... 'Oh, how many baby daddies do you got?' or something like that."

Being on the list hurt, Ortega said. "It did affect me because I am somebody else's mom," she said today on the "Today" show. "I thought everything that happened back in middle school was left behind me. I thought people grew up.

"I guess not," she continued. "I thought this nightmare was over."

She had no idea who created the list, which reportedly began as text messages and then moved onto Facebook. But she said whoever made the list, which also named her 16-year-old sister, should face hard consequences.

"I'm not really sure what would be the right punishment, but I hope they get the worst, because there's a lot of girls who are going through it right now, and they're still in school," Ortega said. "It's even worse when you have to be in school with them."

The list was said to mention girls -- some as young as 14 -- from seven neighboring towns in New York's Westchester County, including Scarsdale, White Plains, Rye, Harrison and nearby Greenwich, Conn. Administrators from several schools are trying to determine if school computers were used to make or send the list, NBC said.

In Greenwich, a police officer assigned to Greenwich High School is working on the case alongside school officials, said police spokesman Lt. Kraig Gray.

"If it turns out there's any criminal charges that have to be lodged, we'll take of it," Gray told AOL News. "The goal is to allow the school to handle it internally.

"Everybody's kind of working together to come to a good resolution," he said.

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Greenwich High School Headmaster Christopher Winters told NBC that school officials have spoken to students and offered counseling to girls on the list. Winters did not return a call to AOL News.

Some parents, meanwhile, are upset as well. "I wasn't angry with her," said one Harrison, N.Y., mother named Angela, whose 15-year-old daughter was on the list.

"I was angry at the fact that, Why would somebody do that?" she told NBC. "How could somebody get away with making a list?

"It's cyberbullying," she said. "That's how I consider it."

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