Recent Internet Predator Nightmares In The News

Robbinsdale man charged with sex crime involving 11-year-old girl - A Robbinsdale man who allegedly molested an 11-year-old girl in a south metro park has been charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct, according to a criminal complaint filed in Dakota County District Court.
The man had been talking with the victim in an Internet chat room and met the girl and one of her friends on Oct. 11 in an Apple Valley park. While at the park, he and the victim walked to a wooded area of the park where he kissed and touched her. Read More>>

Gravesend father-of-four jailed for sex offences - A FATHER has been jailed for nine months after pleading guilty to showing sexual images to children as young as 13.
The man, of Overcliffe, Gravesend, had pleaded guilty to six charges of causing a child to view a sexual act and six charges of making indecent images of a child.
At Maidstone Crown Court on Friday the 40-year-old was sentenced to nine months in prison for using a webcam to cause a 13-year-old girl to watch him performing a sex act on himself.
The court heard that he caused children aged between 13 and 15 to view a sexual act on six separate occasions in June 2006 while communicating with them over the internet.
Katie Fox, prosecuting, said he had contacted the girls through an internet chat room and then showed them his penis via a webcam and a link to his own website. Read More>>

Internet luring suspect pleads guilty - A United Kingdom man has pled guilty in Richmond provincial court to child luring in a case that involved a Lower Mainland teenage girl and a social networking website.
The Suspect, 22, was arrested at Vancouver International Airport in July after he was questioned by Canada Border Services officers and found to be carrying a large number of condoms and child pornography.
During an ensuing police investigation, police claim they learned of his plans to have sex with a 13-year-old girl from the Lower Mainland. Read More>>

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Former Baptist youth minister sentenced for child molesting - A former Southern Baptist youth minister in Kentucky was sentenced Oct. 31 to 10 years in prison after confessing to sexually exploiting a 14-year-old girl he met while posing as a 17-year-old youth evangelist on the social-networking website MySpace.
The Minister, 40, of Greensburg, Ky., admitted in July that he met the girl online and then followed up with computer and telephone messages during the summer of 2007. That September he drove about 50 miles from his home in Greensburg, Ky., to the victim's home in Madison County, where he sexually exploited her. Read More>>

Winchester school aide indicted on child rape charges - A special education teacher’s aide in Winchester was indicted today on charges he used the Internet to lure girls into pornography and sex, raping one of them.
Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone said 28-year-old Christopher French groomed girls through online chats on Facebook and MySpace. He allegedly sent and received naked photographs and tried to entice the girls to meet him in his hot tub.
In one case, Leone says French raped a 14-year-old girl at her house. Read More>>

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Internet Porn Nightmares

Internet porn a growing problem with children - Researchers have found that teen exposure to Internet pornography encourages sex at a younger age.
According to the journal Cyber Psychology and Behavior, males between the age of 12 and 17 who regularly viewed porn had sexual relations at an earlier stage in their lives than those who have not regularly viewed Internet porn.
"Believe it or not, the use of blocking software is declining in America [in conjunction] with the rise of the use of pornography by children," Trueman points out. "There's sort of a disconnect there .... so blocking software is very important." Read More>>

Internet porn ‘encourages teenagers to have sex early' - Exposure To Internet Porn Leads Teenagers to Lose their virginity at a "much younger" age, researchers have found. A peer reviewed study from the journal CyberPyschology and Behavior revealed that males aged between 12 and 17 who regularly viewed porn had sex at an earlier stage in their lives and were more likely to initiate oral sex, apparently imitating what they had watched.
Scottish experts warned that the rise in the viewing of pornography was implicated in a variety of sexual problems - including a rise in levels of STDs and teenage pregnancies - and called for parents to be more aware of what their children were watching. Read More>>

Teen girls copy cyber sex acts, teen psychologist says - ONE in five teenage girls deliberately accesses pornography on the internet, which is encouraging some to engage in explicit sex, according to a leading teen psychologist.
And one third admit they have bullied or harassed someone online, according to a survey on the online habits of teenage girls.
Adolescent psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Gregg said some young girls were having oral, anal and group sex after deliberately or accidentally finding porn online.
"The illusion of anonymity on the net gives those girls a virtual dutch courage," Dr Carr-Gregg said.
"I do think this (survey) should be a wake-up call. This is clearly evidence that the situation is getting worse." Read More>>

Sex acts copied from online porn sites- GIRLS only just into puberty are copying sexual acts they see in internet pornography, believing they must be normal, child psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg said.
Dr Carr-Gregg said large numbers of teenage girls had engaged in behaviour such as group sex or anal sex, which they wouldn't have done without seeing it online. Read More>>

Youth's fancy for online porn turns Internet into 'bane’ - Viewing photos of lesbians engaged in sex on a website is a "thrilling" hobby for 15-year-old Kim Marvin D. The third-year high school student says that visiting the porn site satisfies his curiosity about sex "and bodies of the opposite sex."
"It's vitamins for the eyes," he declared. Read More>>

Porn rampant among 13-year-old boys - A new Canadian study is a wake-up call to parents to start talking to their children about the dangers of viewing pornography. a survey of urban and rural 13-year-olds revealed that boys in particular are being exposed to startling amounts of sexually explicit materials, most of it via the Internet. Read More>>

The Wii Has A Porn Problem! - “The Nintendo Wii gaming console has a wiittle porn problem. That's right; this seemingly innocent family game console has a dirty little secret. It has the dubious ability to access pornography via the internet and most parents are not aware of this fact Read More>>

1 in 3 boys heavy porn users, study shows - Boys aged 13 and 14 living in rural areas, are the most likely of their age group to access pornography, and parents need to be more aware of how to monitor their children’s viewing habits, according to a new University of Alberta study. Read more>>

Net porn called a threat to marriage - researcher says images are too easy to access. flood of highly graphic Internet pornography — much of it illegally targeting children — will keep eroding "an already vulnerable culture of marriage" unless social norms change drastically, a Brigham Young University researcher and family therapist said here Tuesday. Read More>>

Pornography Addiction Destroying Lives, US Senate Told - Pornography was compared to crack cocaine Thursday when a US Senate hearing discussing the dangers of the addiction called on members to endorse a public health campaign warning of the dangers. Read More>>

A 15-year-old girl has been arrested for taking nude photographs of her self and posting them on the Internet, police said - This could be your daughter! Wouldn't you want to stop her if you could? Read More>>

Sex is now pandemic on office computers and costing the country much in lost productivity, business analysts say. Read More>>

Experts: Porn Sites Distort Teens' Views On Sexuality - Material Said To Be Able To Mess Up Future Relationships Read More>>

The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to extend a ban on enforcement of a federal law designed to shield minors from Internet pornography - Parents need to monitor their own children Read More>>

Sex sells, especially to Web surfers - People should be concerned because of the ease with which children can stumble on porn sites Read More>>

This is scary! - Internet pornography was helping to spawn a new generation of sexual predators as young as six, child protection experts warned Read More>>

Identity Theft Nightmares

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Internet Spam Nightmares

Unwanted emails, or spam, surged to an all-time high in May, representing as much as three-quarters of all email traffic, according to a survey released on Tuesday. Read More>>

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Why Spammers Love the CAN-SPAM Law - Antispam laws make some spamming legal and do little to quell the onslaught. Read More>>

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Against the advice of all anti-spam organizations, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed the CAN-SPAM Act, a bill backed overwhelmingly by spammers and dubbed the "YOU-CAN-SPAM" Act because it legalizes spamming instead of banning it. Read More>>

If you thought promising new antispam laws mean you can ditch your spam-filtering software sometime soon, think again. Read More>>