Internet Predator News Stories Archive - Chat nightmares that have made it to the news headlines in the past.

Doctor admits sex with underage girl - The former consultant psychiatrist, previously considered one of the UK's top experts in child sleep disorders, exchanged e-mails and text messages with the youngster for a month. Read More>>

A Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton was in custody Thursday for allegedly having sex with a 12-year-old Santa Maria girl he met through an Internet chat room. Read More>>

A 35-year-old police constable indecently assaulted a 15-year-old girl he met through an internet chat room a few weeks before his marriage Read More>>

A man who ensnared a young 13 year old girl through an internet chat room has admitted to sexually abusing her in a German car park. Read More>>

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Child predator was to strike again - Knowing he would be behind bars in just a few weeks, detectives say Poindexter wanted to meet up with a 13-year-old girl for sex before he went away. Read More>>

Online Predator Issues Warning - A man who is currently serving a six-year term for molesting a teenager he met over the Internet issued a warning for anyone whose child spends time on the Internet, saying there are plenty of others still out there who are just like him. Read More>>

Teen Recalls Online Predator - Sitting in front of your computer seems like such a safe place, but parents are finding out computers are also a place where your teenager can meet the wrong people. Read More>>

Man allegedly used internet to lure teen - Collier County deputies arrested a 28-year-old Naples man for allegedly seducing a 14 year old -girl over the internet. Deputies say the man approached his young victim through instant messenger while posing as a 16-year-old. After several conversations, he reportedly asked to meet the girl. The two allegedly met at the girl's home where the suspect touched her. Although he is locked up, authorities warn online predators are everywhere. Read More>>

Police issue Amber Alert for runaway - Police say they believe a missing 13-year-old League City girl ran away with a man she met in an Internet chat room. Read More>>

Fairport man held in sex case - Prosecutors also allege that the man met a 14-year-old Brighton girl after engaging in explicit sexual talk with her online. Read More>>

Ohio man arrested after soliciting girl. "They met online and it progressed and then there were phone conversations with further online conversations," - "We want to get the word out to the community that these predators are out there, on the Internet," said Morath. "Parents need to check from time to time the type of Internet activities their children are looking at." Read More

A 15-year-old female was raped at her home Wednesday night by an unidentified man whom she met on the Internet a few days prior to the attack Read More>>

A British man is wanted on a charge of sexual assault of a child in Austin. The 36-year-old man met his alleged victim, a 15-year-old Austin girl, through an Internet chat room in which they communicated for two and a half years. Read More>>

It's easy for sexual predators to contact unsuspecting kids. Police officers say predators are making their way into homes through the Internet. Read More>>

Family Fears Daughter in Danger - Family and friends believe Kimberly met the stranger in an Internet chat room. Candy says for a long time Kimberly has been visiting a Yahoo! chatroom for southern teens, and it's changed her. "She's grown up faster, you know," Candy says. "Her words have changed, her actions have changed." Read More>>

Man allegedly used Internet to lure girl, 14 - The girl told school and police officials the two met through an Internet chat room a month ago. Read More>>

A 31-year-old doctor faces a felony sexual assault charge involving a relationship with a 14-year-old Warwick girl he met in an Internet chat room. Read More>>

A 19-year-old Vinton man is accused of meeting a 13-year-old Cedar Rapids girl to have sex after chatting with her on the Internet. Read More>>

Man, 27, accused of raping teen from New Berlin Liverpool resident contacted girl on the Internet, and met her Sept. 1 Read More>>

Teacher Accused in FBI Internet Sting - the feds allege Rosenberg repeatedly stalked someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl. He allegedly typed "I have a lot to teach you about enjoying pleasures ...I want to kiss and explore you." Read More>>

In an upstairs bedroom, the 14-year-old girl curled in a fetal position, wearing nothing but a plaid skirt. She had been missing from Clark County for two weeks. Court documents allege Sadler picked up the girl in Clark County after meeting her in an Internet chat room. Read More>>

Study: Web sex victims mostly teens - Far from the stereotype of unsuspecting children kidnapped by strangers posing as people their own age, most young Internet sex-abuse victims are teenagers who know they're corresponding with adults interested in having sex, according to a new study. Read More>>

An Alabama man is behind bars, charged with raping a young Louisville girl. Police say the man met the 12-year-old girl over the Internet, then drove to Louisville and took her to an area motel. Read More>>

A 24-year-old Pottstown man admitted Friday that he had sex with a 15-year-old Delaware County girl he met in an Internet chat room last year. Read More>>

Man Allegedly Lures Boy To N.J. For Sex - accused of luring the boy using the Internet to an alleged attempted sexual assault in New Jersey. Read More>>

A Georgia man who talked a Montana girl he met through the Internet into disrobing before a web cam so the man could see her genitalia pleaded guilty to federal charges Monday. Read More>>

A local man on Thursday pleaded guilty to charges of importuning and attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, both felonies. Police say he solicited sex with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl over the Internet. Read More>>

An Internet chat room allegedly led to two months of sexual assault to a 15-year-old special-needs girl in Farmington Hills. "The couple met the girl and took her to their Farmington Hills apartment where they furnished her with alcohol. Truth-or-dare games led to handcuffing and sexual assault," Read More>>

Police have charged two Monroe County men with numerous sex crimes, alleging that the men had sex with an underage girl they met on the Internet. Read More>>

Men Held For Taking Teen Girl - The two men traveled to Greentown to meet and transport the youth after meeting her on the Internet Read More>>

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A convicted sex offender who admits being irresistibly attracted to young girls will go to prison for sexually assaulting two 14-year-old girls he met on the Internet. Read More>>

An employee with the Tennessee Department of Safety is facing a laundry list of charges for the sexual exploitation of a minor. Police say the computer wiz who lived in house on a quiet road should send a message loud and clear to parents: the internet is a dangerous place for kids. Read More>>

Pedophiles Most Active During Summer - Police say while they do their part patrolling the summer streets and working undercover online, adults should be the babysitters... not the computer. Read More>>

A 21-year-old Durham man is in Randolph County Jail facing 13 sex crime charges, including rape, stemming from an alleged tryst arranged via the Internet with a 12-year-old Asheboro girl at a motel in the city. Read More>>

A 21-year-old construction worker from Inwood was held on $30,000 bond after he was arrested last week and charged with raping a 15-year-old girl he met in a chat room on the Internet. Police said the man drove the girl around Lynbrook before taking her to the Merrick train station parking lot, where he forced her to have sex with him in his car. Read More>>

A SPECIAL constable had sex with a 14-year-old Cumbrian girl he met on the internet. Read More>>

Police are seeking charges against a 27-year-old downtown Honolulu man who allegedly lured a 13-year-old girl to his apartment through the Internet and sexually assaulted her. Read More>>

Less than 24 hours after his very first hello, cal_night2000 was on the girl's doorstop. Instead of being a 14-year-old boy, he was a 28-year-old man. Read More>>

My husband is on the internet non-stop and he found himself one or two girlfriends overseas," Susan says. "It's been going on now for a couple of years Read More>>

Teacher accused of having sex with teen. Man, 51, met 16-year-old in Internet chat room Read More>>

Parents Often Unaware Of Dangers Children Face While On The Internet Read More>>

Police charged a Virginia man Monday with abducting a Rocky Mount teenage girl he met through an Internet chat room. Read More>>

A cyber-relationship is viewed as a serious infidelity by both men and women, the annual British Psychological Society conference in London was told yesterday. Read More>>

Would you invite a complete stranger into your living room? No? Think again because that's what you do every time you or your child enters into an online chat room Read More>>

It can take only minutes for an online predator to reach a child in a chat room and begin victimizing Read More>>

Chloe Michaels was only 11 years old when he met her. But that didn't matter to sick Glen Parker Read More>>

Incidents of solicitation, child exploitation and harassment are increasing for children who use the Internet. Read More>>

Children are still arranging face-to-face meetings with people they talk to online despite warnings about the dangers of internet chatrooms. Read More>>

POLICE hunting for schoolgirl Tammy Lane have traced a mystery internet friend of hers called "Dawn" - and found it's a man of 30. Read More>>

Sheriff's deputies in South Carolina are investigating a shooting that killed a man Tuesday morning and said a teenager the victim met on the Internet will be charged with murder. Read More>>

January, 2004

Mind of a pedophile: Convicted child abuser admits sickness - The Internet explosion made it easy for Scott to find child pornography and discover that there were many others just like him. Scott learned from others how easy it was to lure a child through chat rooms and instant messaging. Read More>>

Victim Of Internet Sex Predator Speaks Out - Recent studies suggest parents aren't watching closely enough when their children surf the Internet. The result: many children are vulnerable to on-line sexual predators Read More>>

A Boys & Girls Club basketball coach was sentenced this week to nine months in jail for luring young boys over the Internet. Read More>>

Deputies say a man stalked and seduced a 13-year-old Vidor girl he had met on the Internet Read More>>

A 16-year-old Winnipeg girl was allegedly lured from her home by a man she met on the Internet who drugged her, drove her outside city limits, then videotaped himself sexually assaulting her Read More>>

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