Mark Bedford aka Supalover666
Police uncover the depraved world of Supalover666:
His handle, revealing the number of the beast, appears to have been well chosen. Mark Bedford, the man who yesterday emerged from the shadows of cyberspace to become every parent’s nightmare, used the pseudonym Supalover666 to enter online chat rooms and allegedly looked for young girls to groom.
Yesterday, as details of Bedford’s apparent methods of operation emerged, the allegations against him provided a disturbing insight into the manipulative world of the paedophile.
Police claim that Bedford would try to win the girls’ confidence by posing as one of them. He would claim to be a 15-year-old girl interested in rugby, music, singing and dancing. If that approach failed, he would try another tack: hacking into their email accounts to gain access to their ‘buddy lists’ (which detail their online friends).
As soon as Bedford, an unemployed 21-year-old from Ottawa, Canada, had online access to the youngsters, he turned nasty, according to police. Girls as young as nine were threatened with rape, bodily harm and even death if they failed to co-operate and perform sex acts on their webcams.
It is also claimed that Bedford, who - unusually - is suspected of acting alone, threatened to post their images on websites or show them to family members if they refused.
Although Bedford lived with his parents in Canada, many of his victims are alleged to have been in Britain, in particular Kent. More clues are likely to emerge as police sift through his computer, floppy discs, CDs and other items that were seized in a raid on his home last Wednesday.
Tomorrow Bedford will appear in court in Ottawa charged with two counts of luring a child by means of a computer, two counts of possessing child pornography and three counts of making child pornography. In addition, he was also charged with two counts of distributing child pornography and three counts of extortion.
I was able to find Supalover666’s Xanga site. According to this article from CNN he also used the handle Marco1812000 but I couldn’t find anything under that handle.
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12 opinions for Mark Bedford aka Supalover666
Daydreamer of Oz
Jul 30, 2006 at 7:03 am
What a monster. Kenneth Lanning described guys like this as ‘human evidence machines’. We can only hope they find enough on him to lock him up forever!
ela
Jul 31, 2006 at 9:18 pm
Mark Bedford is from Kingston, not Ottawa.
Sian
Aug 3, 2006 at 2:13 pm
EVIL BASTARD, ROT IN JAIL.
Wallace
Aug 9, 2006 at 3:33 am
Mark Bedford is my hero. I wish he would have found me…
Missyy
Aug 15, 2006 at 1:02 pm
Mark Bedford is not monster. He is actually a pretty good guy and I’m saying this as his friend, I personally know Mark in a good way. Yah he might have asked young girls to do those kinds of things but it’s not like they all said no, right? Thats what i thought. So get your facts straight, if you don’t know him personally, then you don’t know him at all!
Trench
Aug 16, 2006 at 12:12 am
Pretty good guys don’t blackmail underage girls to strip for them.
Chuck
Aug 17, 2006 at 8:06 pm
Considering the girls were threatened by Mark if they didn’t do what he said, I don’t think they felt like they had a choice…and I suppose rape victims are also responsible for their own fates because “it’s not like they said no”, right? Give me a break…
al
Aug 18, 2006 at 10:49 pm
actually you idiot rape is totally different. this is ONLINE… and those girls could have easily confronted an adult or someone in authority about the situation they were in. jesus, kingston is a boring city. trust me i live here, it’s like the news and local papers look for the slightest bit of anything to cause a stir.
MYLIFE IS RUIED BECAUSE OF HIM!
Sep 29, 2006 at 6:29 pm
he is a fucking monster he is the one who fucking assaulted my best friend he is a sick fuck! goof will be written all over his home his poor parents
grossed out
Oct 9, 2006 at 6:52 pm
What the hell. This sick bastard is back on line apparently. GROSS. I hope the authorities are still watching the pervert. He’s active on myspace the last few days.
Nikki
Nov 12, 2006 at 12:06 pm
He does live in Kingston. It’s scary; this summer, I was contacted by him, my best friend’s MSN account was taken over, and he lived next door to one of my other friends’ grandparents. It’s just so freaky to know that these horrible things can happen so close to home. He was right around the corner here in K-Town!
Beth
Dec 18, 2006 at 7:38 pm
hey
Mark Bedford is actually from Kingston, Ontario, CA, not Ottawa, On, CA. He was unemployed because he was attending St. Lawrence College full time, he had just graduated right before these charges were layed from a three year computer program and he still lived with his parents, so all they asked of him was to do well in school. I know this because I almost dated him just over a year ago. He was a little weird, but when I heard what he was doing over the internet, although I wasnt overly surprised, I didn’t expect him to pull this off, it wasnt completely in his character. I agree that being a young girl and hearing that if you dont do something with an older adult (21 year old male) over the internet could be very intimidating. However, at the same time, some of these girls lived really far away, and personally, if some guy miles away had told me what Mark told these girls, I wouldve told him to shove it up his ass. So both sides of the arguments make sense. I guess it depends on who you are and everyone has their own opinion. My opinion, personally (and please dont argue with me) is that it is gross, but only because he and I were close “friends” for a few months, and stayed in touch until suddenly his picture was all over the news, however, if I didnt know him, I would have to wonder how someone could MAKE or FORCE young girls to do things from hundreds of miles away.
Besides that, I have nothing else to say besides, if he does have friends on here posting, listen to them before you go about everything in the news, because friends know you better than strangers….
Thank you.
Take care.
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