Cross seeks new Internet safety laws to shield kids:
State legislators in Illinois are trying to pass a law that would require sites like MySpace and Facebook to get written parental permission before kids would be allowed on the site.
This may be the stupidest proposed legislation yet.
Is the state going to verify each and […]
Man arrested for MySpace comments to ex-girlfriend:
19-year-old Robert A. Forshee of Galesburg, IL was arrested for threatening his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend over MySpace.
In one message left on the girl’s MySpace page Dec. 12, Forshee wrote the girl should get an order of protection even though a piece of paper “won’t stop me from killin u” and […]
Suburban man found guilty in MySpace sex case:
I originally posted about Huston Kline here and here. He’s a male from suburban Chicago who was arrested for exchanging explicit photos with a 13-year-old girl over MySpace.
This past week he pleaded guilty to a charge of persuading a minor to engage in sexual activity.
He’ll be sentenced in […]
Over at CrimeNe.ws (which you can check selected posts over on the sidebar along with some of my other sites) I recently posted about Matthew Balman. He plead guilty to plotting to attack Fenton High School in Illinois. His MySpace is set to private now but according to prosecutors his MySpace contained a reference to […]
Pekin student makes online threats:
A student from Edison Junior High in Pekin, Illinois is being investigated for making threats on his MySpace. The article doesn’t elaborate on the threats except that he threatened himself and two other people. The MySpace also contained pictures of the two cowardly scumbag killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The […]
MySpace sex offender gets 3½ years in prison:
Another pioneer of the MySpace predators has been sentenced. John Wentworth of Naperville, Illinois was sentenced to only 3 1/2 years behind bars for having sexual contact with an underage teen he met on MySpace. As far as I can tell Wentworth only had internet contact with his […]
Teen charged with offering prostitutes on Craigslist:
In Hillside, Illinois 17-year-old Kimberly Petersen was arrested and charged with running an escort service out of her home that she was advertising on craigslist. To make things even more interesting her mother, Kimberly Miniea, was arrested on similar charges last April but the charge was dropped. Petersen may […]
Bill limits Web sites at schools, libraries:
An Illinois state senator, Sen. Matt Murphy (R-Palatine), is trying to introduce legislation that would ban sites like MySpace from state schools and libraries. Haven’t we heard this before? First off like I’ve said many times before schools already ban MySpace. We don’t need a law for this. […]
Women charged with offering girls for sex:
I’ll give you 3 guesses of which website they were advertising on. I’ll give you a hint. It rhymes with gregslist.
Cook County Sheriffs in Illinois conducted a craigslist prostitution sting which resulted in finding prostitutes ages 14, 15 and 16-years-old. Those charged in separate incidents were Tamara […]
This is the MySpace profile of one 23 year old Gary Schuning. Who is Gary Schuning you ask? Well I’ll tell you. Gary Schuning is accused of killing his mom and a woman from an escort service…
Police were called to the Addison address at 9:15 a.m. Sunday and found Doris Pagliaro, 40, of Addison, and […]
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