The authors of a fake Facebook profile, set up in the name of Roncalli High School Dean Tim Puntarelli and used to send inappropriate messages to students, are soon to be exposed, after the dean filed a lawsuit against the website, asking for information regarding them to be released.

According to Facebook’s privacy policy, they require a court order or subpoena to release any information regarding one of its users. However, they did remove the profile as soon as it had been reported to be fake.

The lawsuit, which includes identity deception and harassment accusations, resulted in a court order from the Marion County judge to turn over any information regarding the author of the Facebook profile. It still remains unknown whether the authors or authors of the prank are Roncalli students or not.

The Archdiocese of Indianapolis, which operates Roncalli, released a statement, saying: “The archdiocese hopes to resolve the issue as quickly as possible in order to restore damage done to Puntarelli’s reputation and to prevent this type of identity theft from happening again,” The Indianapolis Star reported.

Although a Facebook representative refused to discuss the matter with the press, the networking site will have to unveil the user’s IP address, as well as any other information that could lead to the author of the profile.

There is still no sign of further prosecutions in the lawsuit, and the consequences on the author or authors of the fake profile remain unknown.

The situation is not isolated, the same newspaper reports, as an Edinburgh High School teacher confronted with a similar situation in March this year, when former and current students had set up a fake MySpace profile in the teacher’s name several months earlier. Two of the students involved were suspended, while a third left the school.