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September 5th, 2007

MySpace sex offender facing child porn charges

Sex offender faces child porn charges:
Carl Courtright of Granite City, Illinois was one of those registered sex offenders that had a profile on MySpace when he shouldn’t have. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan used that to obtain a search warrant to Courtright’s home.
Police searched the house on the morning of Aug. 9 and seized […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 2 comments

August 1st, 2007

Child porn and bad reporting

Augusta man held in child-porn case:
50-year-old Calvin Woodburn of Augusta, Maine was arrested on child pornography charges but look at this huge stretch the article takes to connect MySpace to the crime.
Sgt. Glenn Lang of the Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit said Woodbury also was a member of MySpace.com messenger service, able send picture […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 0 comments

July 21st, 2007

LiveJournal takes a step forward

Livejournal Bans Underage Adult Fanfiction:
It seems that LiveJournal/SixApart has finally taken a step closer to reality by banning fanfiction that has underage characters (i.e. children) engaging in sexual situations. In other words they’re banning child porn erotica.
Six Apart has been firming up its policies on legal and illegal content, and this time mature-themed stories with […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 1 comment

June 18th, 2007

Werribee teens get additional charges

More charges on sex DVD:
The teens from Werribee, Australia who are facing charges for distributing a DVD of them sexually assaulting a girl have had additional charges filed against them.
A children’s court heard yesterday the boys, two aged 16, six 17-year-olds and three aged 18 will face another charge each of procuring the victim […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 2 comments

June 17th, 2007

Long Island predator on MySpace arrested

MySpace Leads to Arrest of Sex Offender:
41-year-old Joseph Burkett of Sound Beach, New York was arrested on Thursday on charges of molesting 5 boys.
The police investigation began several weeks ago when officers received an anonymous tip “that an adult male may have a MySpace page and (may) be looking for young boys to sexually […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 0 comments

June 13th, 2007

Another Naperville pedo gets caught

MySpace page leads to charges:
Is there something in the water in Naperville, Illinois? This is the third or fourth predator story that I’ve posted about that has happened in Naperville. Is it the pedo holy land of the Midwest?
Anyway, 30-year-old Anthony Kershaw, formerly of Naperville, was arrested Friday on child porn charges. Police were tipped […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 10 comments

June 6th, 2007

Predator sentenced, parent acts responsible

Internet predator receives 17½ years:
Now this is a story about how responsible parents act.
After a Naperville father noticed his daughter spending more time than usual on the Internet, he installed parental monitoring software to keep a closer eye on her.
His action last summer may have kept the 13-year-old girl out of a convicted sex offender’s […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 2 comments

June 3rd, 2007

Joshua Innes

Man guilty of luring teens over Internet:
25-year-old Joshua Innes of Montreal pleaded guilty to charges of luring a child under 18 on the Internet, extortion, and distributing child pornography.
Court heard in an agreed statement of facts that Innes posed as a 16-year-old girl named Nicky from Calgary on the popular social networking site Nexopia.
Innes began […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 7 comments

June 2nd, 2007

14-year-old busted for posting nude pic of teen on MySpace

Teen charged for posting nude photos of girl on MySpace:
A 14-year-old boy from Uniontown,Pennsylvania was arrested on charges of sexual abuse of children, identity theft and harassment after posting a nude pic of a 15-year-old girl on MySpace. The kid received the picture on his cell phone then posted the pic on MySpace pretending to […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 8 comments

May 23rd, 2007

Would be hitman but actual predator gets 5 years

MySpace Mess: Porn Takes Out Bogus Hitman:
Short article…
A former Detroit man who received nude pictures of two teenage girls via the Internet is sentenced to five years in federal prison.
Prosecutors say Jonathan Fend promised one of the girls that he would kill her parents.
The 21-year-old pleaded guilty in February to one count of receiving child […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 4 comments

May 23rd, 2007

15 will get you 20

Teen charged with taping sex act with minor, posting it online:
Thanks to Jessica we have this story out of Kentucky about one 18-year-old Jeurne Sterling Walton. He was arretsed for recording a sexual encounter between himself and a 15-year-old girl on his cell phone then posting the video to MySpace.
The victim said she had oral […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 5 comments

January 30th, 2007

Teen finds topless pics of herself on MySpace

Teen finds topless photos of herself on MySpace:
This story is a little more than creepy. It’s a short article so please forgive my C&P…
Authorities are investigating how a photograph of a partially nude juvenile made it onto MySpace, according to a Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office report.
The Port Charlotte teenager told deputies that at about 9 […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 1 comment

April 14th, 2006

Ex-music teacher used MySpace to find teens to pose nude

Waterford man used MySpace to find teens willing to pose nude, police say:
WATERFORD TOWNSHIP — A former music teacher used drugs and alcohol to help convince dozens of local high school girls and recent graduates to pose nude on the Internet, investigators said.
Waterford Police said they arrested the 43-year-old resident Thursday on charges of possession […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 0 comments

April 7th, 2006

Mr. A Reports III

Mr. A brings us another report from the darkest depths of the internet. This time about a child porn ring that was broken up in Massachusetts. The crimes themselves did not take place on MySpace but on P2P networks. However Mr. A brings us the MySpace profiles of two of the suspects. Michael Curley […]

By Trench Reynolds -- 0 comments

March 31st, 2006

Third teen arrested in RI child porn case

Third Teen Girl Charged In MySpace Pornography Case:
A third teen has been arrested in the alleged child porn case in Rhode Island. This time it’s the girl that took the photographs…
NORTH SMITHFIELD, R.I. — A teenage girl has been charged with conspiracy in a child pornography case involving two other teenagers.
The 16-year-old from Lincoln was […]

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