FORT WORTH _ A 16-year-old Southwest High School student was taken into custody and suspended from school Thursday after she was accused of showing classmates a videotape of herself and what appeared to be other juveniles engaged in sexual acts.

The girl faces a charge of delinquent conduct/sale, distribution or display of harmful materials to a minor. She was released from juvenile detention into the custody of her mother.

Sgt. Dave Stamp, supervisor of the Crimes Against Children Unit, said the 8mm tape lasted several minutes and depicted the girl and three other possible juveniles, two girls and a boy, engaged in consensual sex acts.

Stamp said police believe that the tape was made inside the 16-year-old girl's home.

"Our job is to identify the other people on the tape and their ages and meet with the district attorney's office to determine if other charges are applicable," he said.

When first questioned by police, the girl said that the other two girls in the film are 10th-grade students at another high school, a police report stated.

The girl's mother, who viewed the tape after being alerted by school officials, identified a boy on it as her nephew, according to the report. Police said the tape did not show sexual contact between the girl and her cousin.

School administrators learned about the tape after a student who had seen part of it alerted a teacher. The 16-year-old girl was taken from class and told to empty her backpack, which contained a video player and the tape.

The girl told police that the tape contained only pictures of getting her hair braided, the report stated. However, when the tape, which had somehow been broken, was repaired by a media teacher, school officials confirmed that it contained pornographic material, the report stated.

The girl was already in in-house suspension before the tape was discovered. Students told school officials that she had shown the tape to fellow students serving in-house suspensions in at least two class periods. One student said that the girl was asking friends if they wanted to be on the video, the report stated.

Cecelia Speer, assistant superintendent with the Fort Worth school district, said a due process hearing will be conducted to determine what further discipline, if any, may be taken against the girl.

"It's certainly inappropriate," Speer said. "It did not generate itself at school. It was introduced into the school that day. It's very unfortunate that it occurred. Thankfully it was dealt with very quickly and swiftly by school administrators."

The police report mentions that an adult man, a relative of the 16-year-old girl, is also seen in the video. However, Stamp said the few seconds of footage of the man, seen standing in a front yard, appeared to have been taken at a different time.

"He had nothing to do with this at all," Stamp said.