Woman: I was raped, photographed

MARBLEHEAD – Betrayed by a former friend who allegedly raped her and published lewd photos of her on Facebook, a former Marblehead woman is speaking out against the social networking site for not removing the photos as soon as the site was notified of their presence.?If [Facebook] are notified by the police or you report via their website that these photos are there and they don?t act immediately and stringently then they should be held liable,” said Julia Helene, 31, in a phone interview Thursday.Helene alleges that Marblehead chef Reid Jones drugged her in August 2010, took nude photos of her while she was unconscious and posted the photos on a Facebook account he created in her name. It then took Facebook over a month to remove the pictures, she said.Although Helene?s lawyers sent Facebook an order to take the pictures down shortly after she found out about them from a friend, Helene said it took them several weeks just to take down four of the five pictures. It took another 10 days to take down the final photograph. Even worse, she said, is that Jones still has access to Facebook.?[Facebook]?s policy states, if you act in this way and post photos that contain nudity or are harmful, that you will be banned. And they have not followed through with that,” she said.Helene said her main worry is that Facebook?s current policies could let this happen to other women. She said she has chosen to speak out now, with Jones? trial still in preliminary stages, because she wants Facebook to take responsibility, and to change their policies as a result. She is currently suing Facebook for damages caused by the photos.Helene said the photos depict a man?s hand pulling Helene?s dress up and down to expose her nude body. Helene is unconscious in all of them, she said.Authorities have told Helene there are additional photos, including one, she said, that shows Jones in the act of raping her, but she has declined to view them.?What I saw was enough,” she said.Jones, 43, is currently indicted on charges of rape, photographing a partially nude or nude person, indecent assault and battery on a person over age 14 and identity fraud. His attorney, William Korman of the Boston law firm Rudolph Friedmann, said Jones “vigorously denies the allegations.”?We intend on trying this case and are optimistic that when a fact finder hears the complete story that my client will be found innocent,” Korman said.Jones is due back in Salem Superior Court on April 1.Helene said Facebook has responded to her lawyers by saying they are protected by the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which states that operators of Internet services are not to be construed as publishers.Helene said that at the least, she would like to see the popular social networking site use a better filter on the photos users upload to the site.?Facebook has deep enough pockets and they should be able to filter photos so that if somebody is posting even innocent bikini photos, they should be flagged to make sure they?re really innocent,” she said. “That?s a sacrifice people should be willing to make.”Jones was arrested on Sept. 23 on indecent assault and identity fraud charges. The rape charge came later, after forensic evidence taken from Jones? house provided sufficient evidence, Helene said.Helene met Jones through his brother, who asked her to take him on as a client when she started her own private chef/personal assistant business. Jones hired her to help him put his life in order, she said.?I started working for him and because we also shared a lot of the same passions n kayaks, sailing n [and] we had several mutual friends, it was natural to become friends,” Helene said..But Helene said she ended the friendship after a short time because she “saw a lot of red flags,” including drinking, drugs and increasing possessiveness over her.?It was blatant that he was thinking it was more than just friends, and I just don?t tolerate that,” she said.Helene stopped talking to Jones, but said friend