Neb. sets special session on safe-haven law:
That didn’t take long.
Finally, the Nebraska legislature has decided to call an emergency session to do something about their safe haven law. Is it going to be today? No. Monday? No. It’s going to be on November 14th. So irresponsible Breeders still have 2 weeks to dump off their kids. Get in before the rush.
N. Calif. Called Craigslist Crime ‘Hotspot’:
This was an interview I did with TV station KCRA in Sacramento, California about violent crimes and craigslist. Yes, I know they call me Trent Reynolds. That’s more TV friendly than Trench. It’s not like either of those are my real name anyway so there you have it.
I thought I would be going head to head with Jim Buckmaster himself but that turned out not to be. I would have loved to have had that opportunity.
First, let me brag about my one and only quote in the article…
Crimes such as stolen items for sale, offers of prostitution and money fraud are much more common. A clearing house for these crimes is found on the Web site thetrenchcoat.com — a site where victims can share their Craigslist horror stories.
“I see more crimes reported on the West Coast and in the Pacific Northwest. The big hotspots would be in Northern California,” site developer Trent Reynolds said.
The area is a Craigslist fan base: The site was born just down the road in San Francisco, and Northern California’s in turn use it more and are more likely to become victims.
It’s true. Violent crimes like armed robbery are rarer on craigslist than prostitution and fraud but that doesn’t make it any less of an issue. And Northern California is the epicenter of craigslist related crime since that’s where the site got its start and people have been using it longer there than anywhere else.
Now let’s hear from craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster…
According to Jim Buckmaster, CEO of Craigslist, the percentage of postings that end in significant crimes is low when compared with the legitimate use of the site.
Buckmaster claimed Craigslist is unable to track the number of crimes involving the site. He said the task would be daunting, pointing to the 50 million monthly users, 35 million listings and 12 billion monthly pageviews.
“The incidence is not zero. We’d like it be zero, but it’s not zero,” Buckmaster said.
It’s definitely not zero but like I said it’s a large enough number to cause concern yet Mr. Buckmaaster just washes his hands of it and refuses to do anything to protect his userbase.
User profiles, while not a perfect solution, would go a long way to discouraging a lot of crime on craigslist. So would eliminating the erotic services section. Two things that craigslist is not considering. So anonymous crime will continue unabated on craigslist. Eventually, people will get so fed up with it they’ll move on to other sites and then the big wigs at craigslist will wonder what happened.
Again, how have they not hired me as a consultant? I’m not above selling out to the man. craigslist and its users see themselves as going against the grain but in reality, they’re just another corporation hence they are ‘the man’.
Mom Who Abandoned Child Speaks:
The woman from Georgia who dropped off her kid in Nebraska is now giving her excuses…I mean reasons.
Brown is a mother at the end of her rope. Her 12-year-old son Talonn has been in and out of juvenile jail, kicked out of school repeatedly, and sent to relatives’ homes.
“I’m a parent who’s been on top of my child, on top of everything. There is not one thing, not one teacher, not one principal, not one school, not one anything that can say Ms. Brown hasn’t done anything for her child,” said Brown.
Talonn has lied, stolen, and failed classes. Brown says for year, her son continued to get in trouble. Fearing Talonn would end up in juvenile jail for good, Brown loaded up him and her 7-year-old daughter and drove more than 15 hours to a Nebraska hospital last weekend.
“He’s not stressed out, he’s not feeling lonely, not feeling quote unquote abandoned because he knows his mom didn’t abandon him. He knows his mom placed him there to get help,” said Brown.
Brown feels the system in Georgia failed her. She says her decision to drive to Nebraska was carefully thought out and her last resort.
I love how a lot of these Breeders blame ‘the system’ when it’s not the system’s responsibility to raise their kids.
Question time again dear readers. Is she justified or is she just copping out?
Queens Man Sentenced For Craigslist Pimping:
33-year-old Tyrone Waite of Jamaica, Queens was sentenced to up to seven years behind bars for being a craigslist pimp and lying to a grand jury. Not only was he a craigslist pimp but he was trying to pimp out a 13-year-old girl on craigslist. At the time of his arrest, he also had naked pics of the 13-year-old on his laptop.
As a special bonus the D.A. pontificates on prostitution being referred to as a victimless crime.
“Prostitution is not a victimless crime but a terrifying and despicable offense against society practiced by callous people who enslave young women without hope and victimize them one day at a time”, district attorney Richard A. Brown said. “This guilty plea and sentencing allowed the young victim to avoid testifying at trial and hopefully will help her to recover from her ordeal.”
Word.
Tigard man convicted of Craigslist rapes:
Ronald Marcus Leistiko of Tigard, Oregon was convicted yesterday for raping two craigslist escorts one of which was only 15-years-old. He also supplied alcohol and cocaine to the 15-year-old.
He claimed at trial that he didn’t remember the 25-year-old escort who he tackled and raped after she only agreed to a striptease.
He was acquitted of raping an 18-year-old who placed a personal ad that said she was lonely and wanted to meet men.
Leistiko almost seemingly bragged about all the sex he had through craigslist. I wonder how many of those alleged conquests were victims who didn’t come forward.
He’s looking at 26 years.
Georgia boy is 21st child left under safe haven law:
Previously we had the family from Michigan who dropped off their kid in Nebraska to teach him a lesson. Now we have a woman who drove from Atlanta to Lincoln to drop off her 12-year-old son. That’s 1,000 miles by the way which beats the previous record of Detroit to Omaha by 400 miles.
No reason was given why the boy was dropped off. Again I say if these people put more time into parenting then looking into ways of getting rid of their kids we wouldn’t have half the problems we have.
The article also states that no infants have been dropped off under Nebraska’s safe haven law. I just thought I’d point that out.
Still, no special session of the Nebraska legislature to amend the law.
Teen mom claims Safe Haven for herself:
Nebraska has yet another first in its series of firsts with its controversial safe haven laws.
This time a teenage mother has turned her self into a safe haven stating that her mother kicked her out of the house. Her mom says that it’s just a typical argument between parent and daughter that was blown out of proportion.
I’m not taking a side here but I wouldn’t be surprised if a teen used the safe haven law to get back at a parent. It was only a matter of time.
Former Newington Student Denied Parole In Attack Plot:
Back in June Frank Fechteler was sentenced to three years plus time served for plotting an attack against Newington High School in Connecticut. Now that he’s served half of his sentence he is eligible for parole.
That request was denied by the parole board because of the seriousness of his crime.
Fechteler was one of these YouTube mutants that posted videos of himself firing guns and setting off homemade explosives. He was 16 at the time of his arrest.
When his house was searched the typical mutant items were found such as a hit list and photos of the cowardly scumbags Harris and Klebold.
Fechteler gave this heartfelt plea…
“I just want to be the most positive person I can be. I can’t; I don’t know what people are thinking. They could always be scared of me, but if you could hear me right now, you have absolutely nothing to fear about me. I’m a changed person now.”
40 members of the community disagreed when they sent letters to the court requesting that Fechteler not be released early.
Fechteler will be up for parole again in April 2009.
Bellevue man charged with rape:
Authorities believe that 27-year-old Sasidhar Vanapalli of Bellevue Washington by way of India is responsible for the rapes of two craigslist escorts.
Police believe that Vanapalli posed as a police officer to force the women into having sex with him.
Since Vanapalli is an Indian national, prosecutors have requested that his passport be seized.
Teen Accused Of Planning School Shooting Free:
The suspect who was arrested for plotting an attack against Champion High School in Boerne, Texas is now a free man, for now.
A Judge reduced the $500,000 bond on Allen Doelitsch which allowed him to bond out this past Sunday.
Good job judge of letting a depressive would be killer back out into the general public.