TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Category: Social Media Crime

  • Child porn coach

    Child porn coach

    Details Surface In Child Porn Case Against Coach

    James Hart

    Pictured at left is one James C. Hart. He’s a coach, a youth volunteer, and a champion powerlifter. Since I’m posting about him here, you know he’s not being profiled as a pillar of the community. He’s accused of making child porn. Apparently, he used MySpace to find some of his victims.

    Hart allegedly used the website My Space.com to persuade girls as young as 14-years-old to take nude pictures of themselves and send them to him.

    Using a screen name “J-C”, with a profile that said he was 18-years-old, investigators said Hart went so far as to tell the teens to write those initials on their bodies before taking the pictures.

    The affidavit shows that the allegations against Hart stemmed from a mother’s discovery. The paperwork shows that she found sexually explicit images of her 16-year-old daughter on the home computer.

    Hart was allegedly coercing the 16-year-old using MySpace.com to have her send more images. In a chat, the affidavit shows, Hart messaged the girl, saying, “Maybe I will just print the pics (another girl) sent me and pass them around town with your name on them.” The girl responded: “I don’t like it when people are so controllive.” Hart responded: “Look, I am not asking. I am telling you, send the pics now,” the affidavit shows. Sgt. Scott Christensen could not talk about Hart’s case, but said that in other Internet sex cases he investigates, it is common for predators to coerce children into sending more photographs.

    It seems he had the prerequisite hidden camera too.

    Police said that Hart would have the girls over to his duplex, where he would coach them and have them change their clothes in a dressing room where he hid the camera. “Parents need to be aware,” said Christensen. “They need to be involved. Unfortunately, our coaches aren’t some place like you drop your kids off for baby-sitting.”

    There were three different girls videotaped in Hart’s basement, police said, and all three have been identified and notified.

    Since he was using a bogus MySpace account, I could not locate it but…

    Hart’s MySpace.com profile listed himself as an 18-year-old male. He had over 1,000 friends.

    That’s one sick dude right there.

    And from that picture, doesn’t he look like he should be looking for his red Swingline stapler?

    milton1

  • MySpace pimp facing federal charges

    MySpace pimp facing federal charges

    Feds hit MySpace pimp suspect with child sex trafficking charge:

    I’ve posted about Malvin Parker Jr. before. He’s the guy from California who was arrested for allegedly pimping out an underage girl he groomed on MySpace. Well, he just found himself in a whole new world of trouble. He’s now looking at 10 to life on federal charges of sex-trafficking children.

    The federal government has an interest in the case because Parker allegedly enticed the victim, a 16-year-old runaway from Washington state, across state lines through MySpace, a social networking site. Federal law prohibits using “force, fraud or coercion” to get a minor across state or national boundaries to engage in a “commercial sex act.”

    As the kids say these days…Oh snap!!!

  • Florida girl safe after running off with SO.

    Florida girl safe after running off with SO.

    Missing teen home after fleeing with sex offender she met on MySpace:

    A 15-year-old Florida girl who was reported missing and given an Amber Alert this week is now safe at home. The girl ran off with 46-year-old William Joe Mitchell, whom she met on MySpace. The girl had thought that Mitchell was a lot younger than he was.

    It turned out Mitchell is 46 and has been arrested 14 times on many charges, many of them violent, ranging from robbery to lewd and lascivious behavior, Judd said.

    “This is what pedophiles and predators do best,” Judd said during a televised press conference. They use their charisma and charm to groom and lure children, he said.

    “We are thankful he didn’t kill her,” Judd said of the man he refers to as “Billy Mitch.” “We are grateful to he took her to a populated area,” he said referring to the Wal-Mart.

    Mitchell is still on the loose. I could not find a definitive MySpace for Mitchell.

    Parents, do you need another one of these stories to get you to check up on your kids’ online habits?

  • She really is caged now

    She really is caged now

    Husband alerted authorities to wife’s online chats

    Meet 30-year-old Kendra Sasser. On her MySpace profile, she calls herself CagedCassandra and claims to be from Caged Animal, Ohio. That couldn’t be any truer. For you see, Mrs. Sasser is under arrest for using MySpace to have inappropriate conversations with a 16-year-old boy from Arizona.

    The two were chatting online Aug. 27 when she sent the boy a picture of her face. He asked for more pictures.

    “This last pic is 4 ur personal enjoyment *grinzz* you gotta make sure this last pic no one sees okay?” she wrote. “You might wanna hide this one. You can’t let parents see it or ur screwed srsly!”

    Sasser downloaded a picture of her genitals from her cell phone and e-mailed it to him. They then continued in sexually explicit conversation.

    She also sent the boy money so he could buy a webcam for his X-box, so the two could give a “free show to each other.”

    How did she get busted? It wasn’t parents or police that caught her. It was her own husband. You see, in July, her husband Ron Sasser had installed a keylogging program on their computer. So when he realized what she was doing, he turned everything over to the local sheriff’s office, who in turn called in the FBI.

    She’s looking at 15 to 30 years behind bars.

  • New York AG targets Facebook

    New York AG targets Facebook

    NY’s Cuomo subpoenas Facebook after company fails to respond:

    First, it was Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal. Then it was North Carolina’s Roy Cooper. Now add New York’s Andrew Cuomo to the list of state attorneys general who just don’t get it. (Is there any politician from New York that’s not named Cuomo?)

    Anyway, Mr. Cuomo has subpoenaed Facebook because Facebook did not respond to New York’s complaints that undercover investigators posing as teens were approached for sex.

    Investigators set up profiles as teens and say they were quickly contacted by other Facebook users with comments such as (quote) “u look too hot……. can i c u online,” and (quote) “call me if u want to do sex with me.”

    While entrapment accusations are thrown around willy-nilly these days, I still have to wonder what the fake undercover Facebook profiles looked like. Was it just a class picture type photo, or was it something more provocative?

    New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says he is concerned that Facebook’s promise of a safe Web site for children is not consistent with its performance.

    As someone who chronicles crimes related to social networking sites, let me give you my opinion on something. This site used to be called MyCrimeSpace for a reason. It’s because most of the crimes happening on social networking sites occur on MySpace. Very few of those crimes actually happen on Facebook.

    This sounds like Mr. Cuomo is trying to get a lot of press for doing nothing at all.

  • Prosecutor Scumbag Peepants tries to off himself

    Prosecutor Scumbag Peepants tries to off himself

    Prosecutor in sex sting arrest attempts suicide:

    It seems that our favorite diaper wearing scumbag prosecutor John David “Roy” Atchison tried to off himself today. Let me get out the violin…

    John David “Roy” Atchison, the Florida federal prosecutor indicted for allegedly flying from Pensacola, Fla., to Detroit to have sex with a 5-year-old girl, tried to hang himself early this morning at the Sanilac County Jail, officials confirmed.

    The 4 a.m. suicide attempt came only one day after Atchison asked a federal judge to take him off a suicide watch and assured her he would not try to harm himself.

    Atchison tied a sheet around his neck, but the suicide attempt was discovered by sheriff’s deputies before he had a chance to harm himself, Sheriff Virgil Strickler said today.

    “One of the other inmates hollered that he was doing it,” and jail deputies responded quickly, Strickler said.

    The inmate in the adjacent cell raised the alarm.

    When I first caught this story on Topix, I left a comment that said I wish he had finished the job, but I now take that back. I want there to be a long and lengthy trial followed by the longest prison stay possible. I want him to live his hell every day for the rest of his life.

    As an added bonus, someone did a Yahoo search for Atchison’s MySpace handle “fldaddy04”. Besides my site, it also brought up a message board called….ugh, I’m so disgusted…The PeeSearch Community. I was unable to access the user profile, and I was not about to go through the requirements to view it. But there at least was a user on that board with the username fldaddy04. Draw your own conclusions.

  • David Laguna sentenced

    Rapist David Laguna Sentenced to 19 Years, 4 months:

    I originally posted about David Laguna here. He’s the scumbag who met a 56-year-old disabled woman on Tagworld, drove 8 hours to her house, and then raped her. He was looking at 26 years behind bars, but as you can tell by the headline, he only got 19 years and 4 months.

    Read this and tell me he shouldn’t have gotten at least the max…

    From her wheelchair, the trembling 56 year-old victim spoke directly to the defendant at the sentencing hearing: “David, do you know what you took away from me?”

    “In my own home, in my life, there is not peace. I can’t sleep in the hospital bed where I was terrorized. I can’t look at that bed.”

    “I have already lost so much of my life because of my medical conditions but I always had the will and inner strength to cope. Now I have lost that will.”

    The victim suffers from many serious and debilitating illnesses, including Parkinson’s disease, cardiacarrythmia, congestive heart failure, gout, and chronic pain. Her spine is sandwiched between two steel rods that run the entire length of her back.

    Plus, she isn’t his first victim…

    After a lengthy trial, which included testimony from the defendant’s former wife that the defendant raped her three days after the birth of their child, while she was recovering from episiotomy surgery, the jury found the defendant guilty of six felony charges including forcible rape and dependent-adult abuse.

    Scumbag should be thrown in a dark hole for the rest of his life.

  • Prosecutor Scumbag

    Prosecutor Scumbag

    Feds: Prosecutor sought ‘younger girls’ on MySpace:

    I’m sure by now, most of you have heard the story about Florida Federal Prosecutor John David Roy Atchison. Never trust a man with four names, by the way. He was arrested for trying to arrange to have sex with a 5-year-old girl from Michigan. That 5-year-old girl turned out to be an undercover investigator.

    Our cousins at Detroit Free Press quote police who say John David Roy Atchison, 53, arrived at the airport in Detroit “with a Dora the Explorer doll, hoop earrings and petroleum jelly for a 5-year-old he planned to have sex with” following a series of online conversations with an undercover investigator.

    “Atchison reassured the sheriff’s deputy who was posing as the child’s mother that he would not hurt the 5-year-old because he goes ‘slow and easy,’ and ‘I’ve done it plenty,’” The Detroit News reports.

    Atchison is married with children, according to the Free Press, which says he runs a youth sports group in Gulf Breeze, Fla.

    So God only knows how many victims this scumbag has.

    Anyway, it turns out that Prosecutor Scumbag had a MySpace…

    A MySpace.com page that a criminal complaint identified as belonging to John David Roy Atchison, an indicted federal prosecutor from Gulf Breeze, Fla., said he enjoyed spoiling young girls.

    Under the user name fldaddy04, name John and caption “Experienced, understanding Daddy,” Atchison allegedly described himself in his profile as:

    “Handsome, educated, professional, experienced Daddy. I love younger girls. Like everything about you…how you think, talk, act. I’m very understanding and supportive..,never ever judgmental.”

    The profile goes on to say that he would like to “pamper, spoil, change and take care of” girls.

    His general interests are listed as “surfing, diving, boating…everything to do with the water…music and cute girls.”

    Just copying and pasting that made me ill.

    A prosecutor and a creeper. They’re going to love him in prison.

  • Conn. Creeper Sentenced

    Conn. Creeper Sentenced

    Man sentenced for arranging sex with girl he met on MySpace:

    I originally posted about Jason Palmeira here. He was charged with using the Internet to persuade a minor to engage in sexual activity and traveling in interstate commerce for the purpose of attempting to have, and having, illicit sexual conduct with a minor. That’s a mouthful. In English…

    Palmeira traveled on July 13 from Massachusetts to Connecticut to meet the girl, picking her up in a green sports car. He drove the girl to Massachusetts, bringing her to a location he described as his girlfriend’s house, the affidavit says.

    Once at the house, Palmeira is accused of having sexual contact with the girl, putting his finger in her vagina and driving her back to Connecticut, dropping her off at the Simsbury Public Library the following morning, according to the affidavit.

    Of course, this was all arranged over MySpace.

    For his troubles, Palmeira was sentenced to three years behind bars.

  • Patrick Buss sentenced

    Patrick Buss sentenced

    Willamette Valley man pleads guilty in MySpace sex case:

    One of the earliest cases I posted about MySpace crimes was that of Patrick Buss. He’s the man from Oregon who tried to lure underage girls to a motel over MySpace. However, the girls were having none of that and reported him to police.

    Yesterday, Buss pleaded guilty to attempted sex abuse and was sentenced to 7 years behind bars. If that sounds light, don’t worry. He’s already serving a 20-year sentence for a previous offense.