Recent Internet Predator Nightmares In The News

Ohio man charged with sex ofenses in Ala. - Tuscaloosa County sheriff's deputies have charged a 28-year-old Ohio man with sex-related crimes after he was found in the bedroom of a teenager.
Matthew Brandon Rogers faces charges of soliciting a child by computer, second-degree sexual abuse, enticing a child and possession of child pornography.
Sheriff Ted Sexton said the mother of a 14-year-old Duncanville girl found Rogers in her daughter's bedroom on Sunday.
The sheriff said Rogers befriended the girl on an Internet chat room and late last week left his home in the Cincinnati metro area and drove to Tuscaloosa. Read More>>

Man jailed for sex with 13-year-old girl - POLICE have warned of the dangers of social networking sites after an Essex man was jailed for having sex with a 13-year-old he met in an internet chat room.
James Grenfell of Braintree groomed his young victim on a popular website for youngsters and when they absconded a massive nationwide man hunt was launched.
Pictures of the 22-year-old were put out by police forces across the country as detectives feared the teenage girl had been abducted from her Torquay home.
Speaking afterwards, police warned parents to be on their guard.
“One of the most important things is to ensure your children are chatting to people they know in the real world, not purely in the virtual world. Read More>>

Man found guilty of grooming and raping 13-year-old boy - A 33-YEAR-OLD man has been found guilty of grooming and raping a 13-year-old boy.
Gregor McMurtrie, of Leybridge Court, Lee, was also convicted at Woolwich Crown Court of inciting his teenage victim to take part in sexual activity.
The boy was approached by McMurtrie via a chat room on the internet in the early hours of August 23 last year.
He suggested they meet that morning and at around 6.15am they went back to McMurtrie’s house.
The victim tried to leave but McMurtrie would not let him and then raped him.  Read More>>

Scottish sex predator student faces prison - A student described by prosecutors as one of Scotland's most dangerous sexual predators has admitted 32 charges related to the abuse of children.
Andrew Byrne, 20, used the internet to groom and abuse 19 children, aged between eight and 15, a court heard.
He sexually assaulted some victims and subjected others to indecent behaviour between September 2007 and July 2009.
A 13-year-old girl from Manchester then met Byrne through another chat service.
Byrne travelled down twice to meet her in 2008 and 2009 and recorded them being involved in "explicit sexual activity". He later forwarded the images on to nine other people.
Byrne then had sex with two underage girls, aged 13 and 15, in 2008 at a flat in the Glasgow's Bridge Street. Read More>>

Man, 37, sentenced for sex with girl, 14 - Defendant started liaison on MySpace.
A 37-year-old Wilmington man who lured a 14-year-old into sex through a social networking Web site was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday by a federal judge.
According to police and prosecutors, Hart made contact with the 14-year-old girl in the Allentown, Pa., area through the social networking Web site MySpace.com on Dec. 27, 2008.
The two exchanged cell phone numbers, which led to a series of calls and ultimately plans for him to meet her.
"Social networking Web sites have become online playgrounds for children. With just a few mouse clicks, child predators are in the middle of these playgrounds," U.S. Attorney David C. Weiss said Friday. Read More>>

Two men raped 14yo internet girl - Two Victorian men gave alcohol to a 14-year-old girl one of them met on an internet chat service before they both raped her, a court has heard.
The Melbourne Magistrates Court heard Handros met the girl through the MSN internet chat service a year earlier and they swapped photos and agreed to meet.
The accused bought vodka and supplied the girls with four to five alcoholic drinks over 30 minutes.
Singh then drove the four of them to his property in Lalor where they drank more alcohol.
Det Sen Const Muileman said Singh indecently assaulted the 14-year-old before taking her to a bedroom, locking the door and forcing her to have sex.
A short time later Handros also raped the 14-year-old girl. Read More>>

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Sexting in the News

Three teens added to sex offenders registry for relatively minor Sexting offense - A 14-year-old boy and two 13-year-old girls will spend the rest of their lives paying for a error of judgement made in their teens.
The Chinook Middle School students were formally charged Friday in juvenile court with felonies stemming from an incident in which they allegedly used their mobile phones to pass on nude photos of a 14-year-old girl.
Each of the three students involved have been charged with a single count of dealing in depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. It is a class C felony, and carries a maximum penalty of 30 days in juvenile detention.
However, anyone convicted of the offense is required to register as a sex offender, Read More>>

Girl, 16, Charged in Sexting Case - Police in Lebanon County have filed charges against a 16-year-old Palmyra girl accused of using her cell phone to send a nude photograph of herself.
Palmyra police said the girl was 15 years old when the photo was taken in the summer of 2009 and the boy who received it was 14 years old at the time.
The boy was charged this week after he allegedly sent the photo to several other people on Jan, 12, police said.
Both teens face counts of sexual abuse of children and criminal use of a communications facility in juvenile court. Read More>>

Middle school students suspended over sexting incident - Two Coweeman Middle School students will be suspended after sending explicit photos of themselves to each other using their cell phones, Kelso police said.
Police were called to the school Friday after a 13-year-old girl sent nude photos of herself to a boy, also 13. Police said the boy showed the photos to several of his friends.
The boy also sent text messages containing nude photos of himself to the girl, who then showed them to her friends, a police report said. Read More>>

Student To Spend 1 Year In Juvenile Detention For Sexting - 14-Year-Old Whitnall Student Blackmailed Underage Girls.
A former Whitnall High School student will spend the next year in juvenile detention for blackmailing teenage girls into sending him nude photos of themselves via text messages.
Investigators said the 14-year-old had dozens of pictures of young girls on his iPod and cell phone.
"Anyone who would take nude pictures of themselves and send them out in the airwaves has to be a moron because there is no way to protect themselves once it takes place and these young girls who are doing that are making a horrific mistake," said defense attorney Gerald Boyle. Read More>>

Sexting and bullying leads to yet another teen suicide - Donna Witsell the mother of 13 year-old Hope Witsell appeared on the Today Show talking to Meredith Vieira about Hope’s suicide.
Just 11 weeks ago, Florida teen Hope Witsell took her life because she was being bullied and called a slut after she sexted her boyfriend with a topless picture of herself.
Not only did she get attention from her school, but that of a high school nearby. Her classmates bullied her incessantly to the point that Hope could no longer bare the torment. Read More>>

Sexting Probe at Bristol Middle School - At least four teenagers are suspected for passing around a naked photo of a Bristol Middle School student.
Bristol Police say an 8th grade girl, 14, took a photo of herself topless with her cell phone and then forwarded it on to a boy, who then sent it to several other students. It quickly spread around school, and now parents say they're both shocked and disappointed.
"It's very scary because my son has a cell phone," said Candice Sorenson. "I'm very shocked actually." Read More>>

Police Investigate Stillwater Teens for 'Sexting' - Police are investigating several Stillwater Junior High students in Stillwater accused of texting each other a partially nude photo of a fellow student.
Representative Anastasia Pittman said it's possible that the young teens could be convicted of child pornography for sending a nude photo of a peer because of the way Oklahoma's laws are written.
Statistics show 20 percent of teens admit to "sexting" or sending nude photos phone to phone. At Stillwater Junior High, 3 boys, ages 13 to14, are now accused of it.
"In today's society they need to know anything they do like that can stick with them for a lifetime," said Stillwater Police Captain Randy Dickerson. Read More>>

14-year-old faces kiddie porn charges for sexting nude photos of classmates - They call it sexting but police say it's serious.
There's debate in Milwaukee because a 14-year-old boy is facing child porn charges. Police say the boy threatened to spread rumors about the girls he targeted if they didn't send him nude and semi-nude pictures. They did.
 Police say they found 80 images from several girls on the 14-year-old's cell phone. One nude snapshot of a girl was found on hundreds of phones.
When you have 14-year-olds exchanging photos of sexually explicit activity involving 14-year-olds, that's child pornography Read More>>

New Details In Whitnall "Sexting" Case - A search warrant offers new details about a "sexting" investigation at Whitnall High School.
A 14-year-old boy was arrested last week after a freshman girl told the school resource officer he had nude photos of her.
According to a search warrant, police believe those nude photos came from the girls' ex-boyfriend and that that ex-boyfriend has a prior record for 2nd degree sexual assault of a child.
The warrant says the 14-year-old girl e-mailed revealing pictures of herself to her then boyfriend in November of 2008. He later used another boy's iPod to access the photos. It was that other boy who was arrested at school. Read More>>

High school kids in sexting scandal - Four teenagers at a selective NSW high school are being investigated for filming a sex act on a mobile phone and allegedly texting it to other students.
The latest incident of "sexting" - in which explicit images are sent from mobile to mobile - involved Year 8 students.
Police said two of the students involved were 13 years old.
It is understood two of them performed a sex act while another male recorded the proceedings on his phone, then forwarded the footage via text message to other students.
The four teenagers could be charged with producing and distributing child pornography. Read More>>

'Sexting' teenagers face child-porn charges - After his former girlfriend taunted him, Phillip Alpert remembered the nude photos she e-mailed to him while they were dating.
He took revenge with an electronic blast — e-mailing the photos of the 16-year-old girl to more than 70 people, including her parents, grandparents and teachers.
Three days later, Alpert, then 18, was charged with transmitting child pornography. Today Alpert is serving five years of probation for the crime, and he is registered as a sex offender — a label he must carry at least until he is 43. 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>>

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>>

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>>

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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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