Not Guilty Plea In “MySpace” Case:
22-year-old Gary Smith of Franklin County, Kentucky, has pleaded not guilty to having sex with a 14-year-old girl that he met on MySpace.
I still don’t understand why guys in their 20s have to go after underage girls. When I was 21, I dated a girl who was 19. As much as I loved her, it was a pain in the ass because we couldn’t go to places that were 21 only.
Not to mention the whole IT’S ILLEGAL aspect of it.
Larksville man charged in sex assault on teen:
28-year-old Jon Erik Frisvold of Larksville, Pa. was arrested this week for allegedly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in his house on multiple occasions. It’s not known how Frisvold knew the girl, but he used MySpace to stay in contact with her.
The level of his alleged creepiness knows no bounds…
Frisvold told the girl to go to his bedroom and wait for him. He asked her to have sex and said to her: “It will be good for you and it will be good for me,” according to the criminal complaint.
The girl said she removed her shirt and pants but told Frisvold to stop because it hurt. Frisvold continued to attempt to have sex with the girl but stopped.
Frisvold drove the girl home telling her not to tell anyone, the criminal complaint says.
Sometime in October or November 2006, the girl said Frisvold contacted her by telephone and on myspace.com. After a conversation, he picked her up at the West Wyoming store and drove around the Back Mountain before returning to his residence with her.
He asked her to have sex, but the girl said no. He continued to ask her to have sex when she agreed.
After a brief encounter, the girl told him to stop. They got dressed and drove to a cafe in Wyoming.
In January, Frisvold again contacted the girl on the telephone and on myspace.com. He picked her up at the West Wyoming store, drove around in the Back Mountain and took her to his residence where he sexually assaulted her, the criminal complaint says.
A month later, Frisvold contacted the girl again on the telephone and on myspace.com. He told the girl he was bored and picked her up at the store in West Wyoming, and took her back to his residence where he assaulted her, police said in the criminal complaint.
Frisvold was released on $25K bail. I wonder if he’ll pull a Shefelbine.
I really hope that the kid in his profile pic isn’t his.
Former Scripps lab tech gets year in jail for sex with boy, 14:
Over a year ago, I posted the story of Colleen Grear. She was the 22-year-old single mother lab tech who started a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy via MySpace. At first, he said he was 18, but when she found out his real age, she didn’t seem to care.
Yesterday, Grear pleaded guilty to charges of lewd and lascivious battery. Under the terms of the plea, she will spend a year behind bars, 2 years on house arrest, and 10 years as a registered sex offender.
Being placed on sex offender probation carries special conditions regular probationers don’t have, such as being prohibited from living within 1,000-feet of a park, school or playground and barring contact with children under 18. Grear cannot have a job where kids regularly congregate and she cannot own or view pornography. She must submit to an HIV test and undergo a psycho-sexual evaluation and complete any recommended treatment. If she violates her probation, she faces 15 years behind bars.
What do you think of the sentence? Is it fair? Would a man have gotten more or less, do you think?
Facebook settles New York child safety probe:
Not too long ago, I posted about New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo setting his sights on Facebook because of pervs approaching his office’s fake underage Facebook profile.
Well, Facebook has caved in to him…
The settlement involves no financial penalties.
Under the terms of the settlement, Facebook has agreed to begin addressing any complaint within 24 hours of being told of inappropriate content — involving such things as nudity, profanity or harassment — by a user or e-mail correspondent.
The company will tell the complaining party the steps it has taken within 72 hours when the complaint has been submitted via an independent e-mail.
In addition, the Palo Alto, California-based company has agreed to allow an independent examiner to oversee how Facebook handles such complaints. The attorney general will have a say in who gets hired as examiner. The examiner will report to the New York attorney general every six months over a two-year period on Facebook’s compliance.
If I were Facebook, I would have told them to shove it. The amount of crime that happens on Facebook compared to MySpace is almost negligible.
Oh, and look, our friend AG Roy Cooper from North Carolina has to stick his two cents in…
“This agreement is another step toward protecting children on social networking sites but we still have a long way to go,” North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said in a separate statement. “Our group of attorneys general will keep pushing MySpace, Facebook and other sites to do more.”
Yet, Cuomo and Cooper aren’t pushing parents to do more because, as I’ve said, parents vote and the AG’s don’t want to risk not being re-elected.
MySpace relationship leads to arrest of Grover Beach man:
30-year-old Michael David Gray has been arrested on charges of sexual molestation. Gray is accused of meeting a 15-year-old girl on MySpace and having a sexual relationship with her for six months.
During the relationship, police say Gray provided the 15-year-old with methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana and alcohol. On one occasion, he also took nude photos of the victim and showed them to others.
First of all what kind of scumbag not only engages in a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl but gives her meth and coke on top of it. Secondly, where were this girl’s parents?
Trial date set in MySpace sex assault case:
You all remember Pete Solis, don’t you? He was the catalyst behind the infamous $30M lawsuit against MySpace. Solis was the one who allegedly sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl who he met over MySpace. Which led the victim’s mother to file one of the most frivolous lawsuits of all time. Anyway, Solis’ trial date for the sexual assault is set to start on January 28th.
MySpace Message Tips Parents Off To Child’s Secret Meeting:
18-year-old Frank Kelley of Millville, New Jersey was arrested after using MySpace to set up a meeting with a 12-year-old girl.
The unnamed victim’s parents told police they found their child with Frank Kelley at Mulligan Field — a local recreation park located in the north end of the Villas section of Lower Township, Cape May County — after finding messages between the two on a computer.
The article doesn’t state what happened at the meeting, but Kelley was charged with aggravated sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
Virginia State Police Arrest Fugitive:
William Joe Mitchell, who I posted about here, has been arrested by Virginia State Police. 46-year-old Mitchell is accused of luring a 15-year-old Florida girl over MySpace to run away with him.
Mitchell was arrested Saturday morning at a Flying J Truck Stop in Winchester, Virginia.
Prosecutor jailed on child sex charges commits suicide:
You remember John David Roy Atchison, don’t you? In case you don’t, he was the federal prosecutor from Florida who went to Michigan to have sex with what he thought was a 5-year-old. It also turned out that Atchison had a diaper and urination fetish. Also, while he was in custody he tried to kill himself.
If you didn’t notice, I’m talking about him in the past tense. It seems that he was successful this time in ending his own life.
He hanged himself this morning at the federal prison in Milan, where he was taken after trying to commit suicide last month at Sanilac County Jail, authorities said.
Coward.
Thanks to Soobs for the link.
Dallas-Fort Worth area sex offenders using MySpace arrested:
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is bragging that 14 Texas sex offenders were caught violating parole by using MySpace. He says that part rather proudly.
Mr. Abbott called Web sites like MySpace a “lions’ den” for sexual predators who use them “literally looking for the person they can next victimize.”
I bet he said the next part really, really quiet.
Mr. Abbott said, however, that “there was no evidence” that the 14 people arrested last month had used MySpace to locate potential victims. Instead, all 14 were arrested after using the Internet, a violation of their parole.
While I’m happy, that 14 sex offenders are off the streets, Mr. Abbot falls into the same category as his contemporaries from Connecticut, North Carolina, and New York. Instead of demonizing sites like MySpace, how about doing something about the parents that allow their kids unfettered access to the internet. Oh, that’s right, because they’re the ones who vote. You wouldn’t want to piss them off, would you?