'WEB PERV' HIT WITH GIRL-RAPE RAP

September 5, 2003 -- A 20-year-old Web surfer who used the cyberhandle "PimpSlo" to seduce a 13-year-old girl over the Internet was charged yesterday with raping and sodomizing the teen in her own home, officials said.

Ricardo Brice, of Central Islip, is accused of using the Internet to chat up the Ossining teenager over a four-month period. Police and prosecutors said Brice began corresponding with the girl, then set up a rendezvous at her home. They said Brice drove to Ossining at the end of July and had consensual sex with her, then returned on Aug. 18 and broke in after discovering no one was home.

He had sex with a 13-year old girl that he met on the Internet. What a nightmare. I think this incident could have been avoided if her time on the computer was being monitored, either by the mother or a monitoring program.

The girl's mother called police to report the break-in, and investigators determined the intruder had gone through the girl's bedroom.

After interrogating the child and her mother, police went online pretending to be the girl.

Cops on Wednesday obtained a search warrant for Brice's home and arrested him.
Brice was charged with second-degree rape, second-degree sodomy and third-degree burglary, and was being held without bail until his next court appearance on Tuesday. If convicted, he faces seven years in state prison.

"It happened again," said Westchester County DA Jeanine Pirro. "This is an example of how pedophiles are using the Internet to attack these kids."