Boys from Melbourne boys' school Brighton Grammar created a 'young sluts' Instagram account. Credit:Craig Sillitoe The school is reeling from the scandal, and reassuring parents and students that it will not tolerate "disrespectful behaviour on any social media". Headmaster Ross Featherston wrote to parents on Wednesday and said the school had identified a small number of other boys who were also implicated. He said they had been disciplined and were receiving "re-education and counselling". "The posting of last Friday is anathema to everything we stand for at Brighton Grammar School," he said. "However, given that it happened, I have contacted one of Australia's leading cyber educators and plan to meet with her very soon to review our current programs of educating boys and provide guidance to parents on matters relevant to social media and the online world." The case was brought to the public's attention after a concerned Melbourne mother wrote on Facebook that photos of her young daughter had been uploaded onto the vile Instagram account.

"I am writing this as a mother of a girl that has not only been sexualised but violated within our small community," she wrote on a public Facebook post, which was shared hundreds of times. "I will not rest until the consequence for the crime meets the severity of the crime itself - for my daughter and all other young unsuspecting girls." The mother told the ABC her daughter was walking with Grade 6 friends after school to meet her at an arranged pick up point when she was unwittingly snapped. They did not know about the post until seeing it online that night. She said her family had been involved with Brighton Grammar for generations and she did not blame the school. Instead, she blamed the boys' parents, adding that misogyny was at the root of Australia's domestic violence crisis.

"Shame on you for raising boys who have violated young girls ... If this was isolated, perhaps I wouldn't be as enraged as I am right now, but I hold those parents as responsible, as I do those boys." She said it was not a once-off event and she had screen shots of numerous offensive messages the same boys had sent to other girls in the past. When told that the boys had left Brighton Grammar, the mother told Fairfax Media that there were no winners in the scandal. "The school did what they thought was the right course of action," she said. "I am still left with a little girl who is confused, who has had her innocence taken away from her and is embarrassed." She said she had been picking up her daughters early from school early to shield them from the embarrassment of meeting other parents.