Internet Predator Chat Nightmares of 2006

December, 2006

Kingston man faces more charges for internet luring, child pornography - At the time of his arrest, police alleged that a man preyed upon girls between the ages of nine and 15 by impersonating their friends and making them perform sexual acts in front of a webcam.
When the girls realized they were communicating with a stranger, the man allegedly threatened to send the images to friends and family members. Read More>>

Children admit e-mailing photos to strangers online - ALMOST three quarters of children in a survey out today admitted they have given their e-mail address, a photograph of themselves or their phone number to a stranger they met online. There are computer monitoring programs available that would notify a designated person about events like these, these programs should be used more often. Researchers found 73 per cent of seven to 16-year-olds had handed over the personal information on the internet to someone they had never met before.

Officials say teen coerced into exposing herself with Web cam - A New York man faces federal charges after police said he threatened a young teenage girl from Ohio and coerced her into using a Web camera to take explicit images that he later posted on the online social network Myspace.com.
Brown met the 13-year-old girl in an online chat room for cheerleaders, according to court documents.
Police said he pursued her with sexually explicit instant messages and threatened to harm her and her family if she didn't expose herself via the Web cam.

October, 2006

Teacher Arrested For Attempted Internet Child Seduction - He is also a former priest, and he's charged with trying to seduce a child over the internet. 59 year old Ronald Boorman was arrested at JCPS headquarters Wednesday morning for seduction of a child using a computer. Read More>>

September, 2006

Propositioning of teen leads to man’s arrest - A Gresham business owner allegedly propositioned a 13-year-old girl online and drove to McMinnville to have sex with her. Read More>>

BNAS men charged with having sex with teens at Auburn park - Two Brunswick Naval Air Station men have been charged with having sex with two underage teenage girls.
Police say 20-year-old Airman Nicholas Greaves met a 15-year-old Lewiston High School student online. Both had pages on MySpace.com, a social networking Web site, and the pair began chatting. They arranged to meet on Aug. 28 in Pettengill Park. Read More>>

August, 2006

Three plead guilty in corruption of teen - A college administrator, a Christian bookstore owner and a police officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to corrupting the morals of a Richland Township teen in Internet chat rooms involving suspected pedophiles and boys. Read More>>

Child porn sting snares children - Another classic reason to monitor your childrens computer!
An investigation by Milwaukee police into Internet child pornography has yielded some surprising results: high school honor roll students from solid middle class families who are stunned when police roll up to their homes with a search warrant for their computers.
"All of the kids coming in are good students and come from good homes, but they are accessing child pornography," said Lori Kornblum, an assistant district attorney who heads the sensitive crimes unit at Children's Court. "The parents are horrified. Parents really need to know what their kids are doing on the computer."

Firefighter Accused Of Luring Children For Sex - A South Florida man who identified himself as a firefighter in an Internet chat room was arrested after he allegedly tried to lure children, police said. Brent Gill, 27, is accused of soliciting sex from a minor online. Police said they want more parents to monitor their children's Internet activity and report anything suspicious to police. Read More>>

July, 2006

Pervert lured girl, 14, on net - A MIDDLE-AGED internet pervert who got a schoolgirl to strip and perform sex acts over her web cam was today starting an eight month jail term. Snaith, who had been having sexually explicit discussions with the child he met in a chat room blamed the girl and the internet service providers for his behaviour. Read More>>

June, 2006

Lawyer Arrested In Internet Sex Sting - Winfield police on Wednesday arrested the lawyer when he attempted to meet with a child at a park in Winfield with the intent of having sex with the child, whom he met in an Internet chat room, according to a release from the attorney general’s office. Read More>>

24-Year-Old Man Charged With Rape Of A Child And Teenager - A warning from the Shelby County Sheriff's Office for parents to keep an eye on what your children are doing online. This comes after two young girls were raped by an adult man one of them came in contact with thru the internet. The sheriff's department say one of the victims in this case a 12-year-old girl actually invited him over to her house and even let him in her bedroom window to watch movies. Read More>>

EXTRA: MySpace can lead predators to your home in 30 minutes - It is the hottest spot on the Internet. If you have a teen, there's a good bet he or she is on MySpace. Detective Phil Dubord of the FBI Innocent Images Task Force says parents are foolish not to monitor their children's activities on MySpace. Detective Phil Dubord, FBI Innocent Images Task Force:
“It's just like giving a child a loaded weapon and having them go in a room and go behind a door. Who knows what they can do with it. " Read More>>

May, 2006

Predators luring girls via chat lines, authorities warn - She was lonely and looking for someone to talk to. He was the kind voice on the other end of the line who said he wanted to be her friend. But when they met at his house in New Hampshire after weeks of phone conversations, he raped her.
She was 13. He was Philip Longeway , 32, a convicted sex offender from Manchester. Read More>>

Former selectman faces sex charges - A well-known local politician in this affluent community west of Boston is accused of driving to a Rhode Island apartment complex this week to have sex with someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl he met in an Internet chat room. ''It's unbelievable. It's always somebody else, somewhere else, not someone you know in a small town like this," said Donna McDaniel Read More>>

EXTRA: MySpace can lead predators to your home in 30 minutes - It is the hottest spot on the Internet. If you have a teen, there's a good bet he or she is on MySpace. Detective Phil Dubord of the FBI Innocent Images Task Force says parents are foolish not to monitor their children's activities on MySpace. Detective Phil Dubord, FBI Innocent Images Task Force:
“It's just like giving a child a loaded weapon and having them go in a room and go behind a door. Who knows what they can do with it. " Read More>>

Brookfield schoolteacher charged in Internet sex sting - A longtime physical education teacher at Brookfield's Wisconsin Hills Middle School is due in court today in Milwaukee on felony charges that he sexually propositioned - and sent pornography to - what he thought was a 14-year-old online. Read More>>

HAS CHELSEA, 13 FALLEN INTO THE HANDS OF CHAT ROOM PERVERT? - A MISSING teenager may have fallen into the clutches of an internet chatroom prowler, her distraught father said yesterday. Read More>>

Dateline has a series going on called "To Catch a Predator III". They show, in detail, how easy it is for your child to to get groomed by these Internet Predators. A very interesting read and TV series.
Millions of our kids are online, but how do you keep them out of danger? Dateline’s unprecedented look at Internet predators is back. Find out how to keep your children from becoming a target... and watch as men get an unexpected date with Dateline!

April, 2006

A deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was arrested Tuesday at his Maryland home on charges he used his computer in an attempt to seduce a child and transmitted harmful materials to a minor Read More>>

Girl Barely Saved from Alleged Sex Predator - Kentucky State Police troopers say it was a close call Tuesday night. They intercepted a man they believe was about to meet a 14-year-old girl. Troopers believe the two met in a chat room, and were about to meet in person for the first time. They say the girls parents had no idea. Read Mroe>>

Convicted sex offender charged with targeting girl on Internet - A Rutland man convicted of sexually assaulting a minor has been charged with using a computer to attempt to lure a 13-year-old girl. Read More>>

March, 2006

40-Year-Old Man Charged With Raping 14-Year-Old Girl - The forty-year-old man is facing 23 charges for allegedly raping and sodomizing a 14-year-old girl. Police say he first met the teenager on a phone chat line last summer. Read More>>

Parents Worried About Chat Rooms After Girl Disappears in Oklahoma - The FBI says she spends a lot of time on the internet, and could be with someone she met in a chat room. Read More>>

Web grooming perv jailed - A CHILD porn addict branded by the prosecution as "every parent's nightmare" - spent months posing as an online counsellor for abused youngsters to worm his way into the "vulnerable" 13-year-old's confidence. Read More>>

February, 2006

Paedophile raped boy he met in gay chatroom - A 27 year old paedophile posed as a teenager in a gay chat room to rape a 14 year old boy. Read More>>

Sex attack on internet girl - A TEENAGE girl has been left traumatised after being sexually assaulted by a boy she met in an internet chat room. Read More>>

January, 2006

Doctor set online trap for children by posing as young girl - AN EMINENT doctor posed as a teenage girl called “Katie” to swap photographs and sexually explicit messages with children in internet chat rooms

Texas man sentenced to 27 years in prison for soliciting sex from 15-year-old girl - A 61-year-old Texas man arrested in early January by Decatur police was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Urbana to 27 years in prison for traveling to Illinois to have sex with a 15-year-old girl he met in an Internet chat room. Read More>>

Man arrested for abducting girl - A man who allegedly lured a 16-year-old girl here by posing as a counselor in a Christian chat room was arrested in his Hickory Drive home Thursday after police said he picked her up in her Maryland hometown.

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