Archive for March 2008
March 31st, 2008
Family seeks revival of MySpace suit over alleged sex assault:
The Texas family that had tried to sue MySpace over thair daughter’s sexual assault are trying to get the suit revived.
The victim, only known as Julie Doe was 14 when she was sexually assaulted by then 19-year-old Pete Solis. Solis had met his victim over [...]
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March 31st, 2008
Facebook girl beaten and shot dead by her father for talking online:
I’m not sure how true this story is because everyone involved is ‘unnamed’ but I wouldn’t put it past the Saudis.
Anyway a Saudi news agency is reporting that a father brutally beat and shot his daughter to death for using Facebook to talk to [...]
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March 29th, 2008
Yesterday I posted about Michael Allen Jones from Tennessee who is accused of having sex with a 12-year-old girl.
At the time I was unable to find his MySpace. However an old friend of the site, Mr. A, has come up with Jones’ MySpace.
And something I forgot to mention in my last post. While the older [...]
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March 28th, 2008
Man Uses MySpace To Find Young Victims:
Michael Allen Jones of Hendersonville, Tennessee has been arrested for using MySpace to meet a 12-year -old girl to have sex.
Jones allegedly picked up the victim at her house, drove her to another location and had sexual contact with her.
Police charged Jones with rape of a child and contributing [...]
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March 28th, 2008
Say hello to Slade Allen Woodson of Afton, Virginia.
He’s been arrested as one of the Virginia snipers.
A second suspect has been shot but has not been named.
Tags: MySpace, Slade Allen Woodson, sniper, virginia
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March 28th, 2008
Man who met teen boy on MySpace faces indecent liberties charges:
26-year-old Brandon Noah Smith of Chesapeake, Virginia was arrested on charges of taking indecent liberties with a child.
It seems he was caught driving in Suffolk, VA. with a 14-year-old boy that he allegedly had met over MySpace for the purpose of sex.
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March 27th, 2008
Conman who fleeced bedridden stranger he met on MySpace is jailed for three years:
Frazer Rogers of the UK was sentenced to three years for conning a bedridden woman out of her money. Rogers met 23-year-old Allison Eyers over MySpace. After befriending her he swindled her for thousands of pounds. Rogers theft of Ms. Eyers money [...]
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March 27th, 2008
British man cleared of harassing ex on Facebook:
Earlier this month I posted about Michael Hurst. He’s the British man that was being tried for harassing his ex over Facebook. Well, he’s been cleared of the charges. But he’s been ordered to refrain from making any contact with his ex in the future.
Yeah, we’ll see how [...]
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March 27th, 2008
Student Arrested for Threats Made on MySpace:
Police in Sherman, Texas arrested a 15-year-old boy from Sherman High School for posting a threat on his MySpace. The police searched his house and found nothing. In my opinion police acted correctly because you know the one time that a threat like this is not taken seriously is [...]
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March 26th, 2008
Sort of…
Former South Jordan fire captain charged in child porn case:
45-year-old Michael Farnsworth of Riverton, Utah is under arrest on child pornography charges. He used to be a fire captain in the South Jordan Fire Department.
It all started when his daughter found a fake MySpace profile he was using that said he was 21-years-old. [...]
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March 24th, 2008
MySpace post leads to Orosi arrests:
Three teens from Orosi, California were arrested for vandalizing a local packing house.
Police had no trouble finding them since the suspects posted their handiwork on MySpace.
This just further proves that gangs aren’t filled with brain surgeons and rocket scientists.
Tags: gangs, MySpace, orosi, vandalism
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March 23rd, 2008
MySpace threats land Shippensburg juvenile in custody, police say:
Do you know what your kids are writing on MySpace? A 16-year-old girl from Shippensburg, PA was arrested for writing the following…
The 16-year-old wrote to the victim on the site on March 19, “ur not going to be alive after skool tomorrow…. U can count on it,” [...]
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March 21st, 2008
Sex Offender Fails to Register MySpace Page:
Marvin Davis of Weston, West Virginia has been charged with being a convicted sex offender and having a MySpace. It seems that Davis did some time for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old in 1996.
He’s also been charged with not registering his e-mail address.
Sex offenders have to let police know when [...]
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March 21st, 2008
Accused Concord teacher faces new charge:
I originally posted about James Black here. He’s the teacher from Concord High School in Concord, North Carolina that was arrested for having sex with a student.
Now he’s facing charges of witness intimidation for attempting to contact a witness in the case.
For someone who was a teacher he doesn’t [...]
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March 20th, 2008
Bridgend coroner: YouTube clip ‘incited suicide’:
You’ve seen me post about the suicides in Bridgend, Wales before and how some people have blamed the suicides on the social networking site Bebo. Well, the coroner investigating the suicides will have no part of that Bebo nonsense. He’s blaming YouTube instead…
Philip Walters, who has been investigating a string [...]
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