Saints suing over nude photo scandal

The St Kilda Football Club intends on suing the teenage girl at the centre of the nude photo scandal.

The Federal Court today extended an order preventing the 17-year-old from publishing more photos of AFL players on the internet.

The girl - who cannot be named - did not appear at the hearing, nor did she have a representative there.

Outside court, Saints vice-president Ross Levin said it was just the beginning of a vigorous legal campaign against the girl and added the players intend on suing for damages.

"When you get an order for damages, in the event we are successful in our claim, the order continues to be valid for up to 15 years," Levin said.

"In the event that she tries to make money out of this, the misery she has caused to these four undeserving players, then we'll be looking for that money."

Mr Levin said if the girl disobeyed the judge's orders, she could be held in contempt of court which carries serious penalties.

"The woman clearly knew what she was doing when she published those photos," he said.

"We at the club, and all fair-minded people we would say in Australia, have been appalled at the delight that she has expressed in causing distress to these four players including, as I have said, some whom she has never met and who have never done anything to her.

"The woman has made it clear in her networking posts that basically she enjoys causing trouble for others."

Earlier this week the teen published photos featuring Saints skipper Nick Riewoldt and team-mates Nick Dal Santo and Zac Dawson on social networking site Facebook.

The players claim the photos were taken by another team-mate, Sam Gilbert, while on holiday in Miami last year.

Gilbert says the girl stole the photos from his computer, but she maintains she took them herself while with the players in a Melbourne hotel room.

Justice Shane Marshall said the best evidence available to him at present is that the photos were taken from Gilbert's computer.

In orders to be emailed to the girl and posted on her Twitter account, Justice Marshall instructed that, for now, she not publish the photographs or any other images or videos taken from Gilbert's computer.

Gilbert's lawyer, Will Houghton, QC, will make an application to the court at 2.15pm (AEDT) on Friday that the girl be ordered to permanently delete all electronic images from her computer.

He said the girl was deliberately thumbing her nose at the court.

"It appears ... that [the girl] is exhibiting some defiance to the orders of this court and whether that is because of her immature years or simply plain stupidity, I cannot say," he told the court.

A lawyer for Facebook spoke to the court from the United States via telephone and said the company was committed to deleting all inappropriate content posted on its website.