Deputy Krystal Rice Suing for $50M after Police Dept Shares Topless Photos

A female police officer is suing for $50m in compensation after claiming topless photos taken of her for a pedophile sting operation were viewed by others after being loaded on a detective's laptop computer.

Deputy Krystal Rice, from Watertown, New York, agreed to pose for the photos to help out in an undercover investigation into online predators but only did so on the promise they would be retued.

She posed as a 15-year-old schoolgirl for the risqué photos - which showed her topless with her hands across her breasts - which were sent to men targeted as part of a police sting operation on pedophiles.

But despite agreeing to let the photos be used, Rice claims she was never allowed to get them back and her repeated demands for a CD containing the photos to be retued were rebuffed.

In a 45-page lawsuit she claims others at her police station had access to the photos.

It says Rice 'feels dirty, exposed and extremely embarrassed by these events and incidents'.