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Chicago – From www.triblocal.com – A Northbrook woman has been arrested on child pornography charges after she allegedly participated in an erotic photo shoot with a 14-year-old girl.

Paula R. Ferdkoff, 19, was arrested by Lincolnshire police and charged with two counts of soliciting a minor for child pornography and two counts of possession of child pornography stemming from photos taken last July.

Ferdkoff was released Saturday, Feb. 19, from Lake County Jail after posting 10 percent of a $50,000 bond, a jail representative said. She could not be reached for comment.

After she was arrested Feb. 18, Ferdkoff allegedly told police that she was an aspiring model and that she “felt erotic photos would help advance her career,” said Det. John-Erik Anderson of the Lincolnshire Police Department.

Ferdkoff, who knew the 14-year-old, is accused of asking the girl to participate in the photo shoot and posing for the photos at Digital Effects studio in Lincolnshire, Anderson said.

A phone number for Digital Effects had been disconnected.

“We don’t have anything suggesting this wasn’t a regular photography studio,” Anderson said. “It wasn’t anything that was ongoing. This was more an isolated incident.”

In August, about a month after the photos were taken, the mother of the 14-year-old girl found the photos on a computer in the family’s Glenview home, Anderson said.

The mother recognized Ferdkoff in the photos, and when she confronted Ferdkoff, Ferdkoff called Glenview police and accused the mother of harassing her, Anderson said.

But when the girl’s mother told Glenview police what the argument was about, Ferdkoff became the subject of the investigation, Anderson said.

Police then allegedly found a compact disc containing the erotic photos in Ferdkoff’s vehicle, Anderson said.

He also said that the reason Ferdkoff was not charged sooner is that police are continuing to investigate other individuals, including a suspected photographer.

“We seized basically anything that contains media on it,” Anderson said.

Those items included computers and cell phones. The forensic investigation could take months, he said, especially considering that the computers used for storing photos contain many images through which investigators must sift.