NEW: Jury finds Underwood guilty:
An Oklahoma jury took less than an hour to find Kevin Underwood guilty in the murder of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin.
Underwood killed her, molested her, in that order, then tried to sever her head in order to consume her flesh.
The prosecution is seeking the death penalty for this monster. If [...]
Harvard scholars to explore Net safety:
Because the cuontry’s state Attorney’s General are too afraid to tell parents to do their damn jobs a group of Harvard scholars will be heading a year long task force on internet safety for children.
I’m actually not going to spend a whole lot of keystrokes on this story because I [...]
Facebook Denies Role in Morocco Arrest:
Facebook is claiming that they gave no information to the Moroccan government as to the identity of Fouad Mourtada. Mourtada was jailed for three years for making a fake Facebook of a Moroccan prince.
Brandee Barker, a Facebook spokewoman, said in a statement that the company’s privacy policy and terms of [...]
Moroccan Bloggers Protest Jailing for Facebook Prank:
Bloggers in Morocco are up in arms about the jailing of Fouad Mourtada. Mourtada is the man who was sentenced to 3 years in prison for making a Facebook profile that imitated Prince Moulay Rachid. As far as I know it wasn’t a parody but rather a tribute to [...]
Teen Catches Alleged Mugger Via MySpace Flirting:
16-year-old Yudelka Polanco of Brooklyn, NY is being commended for her fine detective skills.
She had her cell phone stolen and was able to use MySpace and the SIM card in her phone to track down the thief.
After the robbery, the mugger checked his own email using Polanco’s SIM card. [...]
Four teens charged with rape on Eastside:
Four unnamed teens from Kent and Federal Way, Washington are under arrest on rape charges.
It is alleged that they got a 16-year-old drunk and then raped her in the back of a car back in November.
Not only was the victim able to identify two of the suspects through [...]
Bus driver accused of using MySpace to lure teen:
46-year-old Gary L. Clark of Morehead, Kentucky was a bus driver. I say was because I’m sure he’s lost his job after being arrested for soliciting a teen over MySpace.
Police said he solicited the boy to meet him Saturday and allegedly coerced him into getting into his [...]
Man Accused Of Targeting Women Online To Cash Bad Checks Arrested:
23-year-old Jeff Ipson of West Jordan, Utah has been arrested for scamming women out of thousands of dollars. Ipson would meet these women on MySpace then convince them that he had money. Then he would pull a scam that I usually only see on craigslist…
“He [...]
Over at the most depressing site in the world, News of Doom, I posted a story about an 18-year-old girl from Ohio that was recovering from brain surgery. Two teens broke into her home and hit her in the head with a baseball bat among other atrocities.
The article I cited didn’t give the suspects’ [...]
Text messages lead police to girl, suspect on the road:
Sasquatch over there is 37-year-old David Anthony Faboo. Scruffy Dan traveled from his home in Hillsboro to Wheatland, California to pick up a 16-year-old girl he met on MySpace.
Halfway back to Oregon the girl realized she was making a mistake and text messaged a friend. [...]
No charges against impersonators in Internet suicide case:
Authorities in St. Charles County, Missouri will not be filing any charges against those behind the ‘Megan Had It Coming’ blog.
For those of you just joining us let me recap. In the wake of the controversy surrounding the much publicized suicide of Megan Meier someone posted a fake [...]
MySpace Sued Over 2006 Teen Suicide:
in 2006 15-year-old Kristin Helms of California committed suicide. She was having sexual relationship with 27-year-old Kiley Bowers. The two had initially met when Helms contacted Bowers through his page on Geocities, a free and shabby webhosting company owned by Yahoo. The two continued to chat over Yahoo Messenger then [...]
Moroccan jailed for royal Facebook ‘joke’:
This is a story for all those people who complain about free speech rights being violated when their precious little snowflakes get disciplined for making libelous fake MySpaces of people.
In Morocco 27-year-old computer engineer Fouad Mourtada was sentenced to 3 years in prison for making a fake Facebook of King [...]
Hoodie yob arrested using website Bebo:
I love British slang.
Anyway a teacher in Hastings, England was able to use Bebo to track down a local vandal that had been terrorizing the neighborhood.
The 17-year-old thug taunted them by saying that they’d never be able to catch him without his name or picture.
“He started shouting at my [...]
Police: Child Shows Investigators How To Use Marijuana:
25-year-old Lisa Schuchard of Omaha, Nebraska was arrested two weeks ago on charges of felony child abuse.
It seems that her and her boyfriend, Christopher Gladden, (after you see his MySpace you won’t be surprised) liked to smoke a lot of dope and leave shotguns laying around her two [...]
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