TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

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  • A fake ad for rape

    Fake ads on Web site make woman a target:

    Complete craigslist anonymity strikes again.

    A woman by the name of Amber from Atlanta, Ga. had a harassing ad posted about her on craigslist. It wasn’t your typical ‘for a good time call’ type harassment either.

    Her name, address, and phone number were listed on the ad that said she was into rape fantasies. To make matters worse the ad said for guys to just come on in and ‘start the fantasy’. So whoever took out the ad was hoping she would get raped.

    Not only did she receive phone calls and text messages about the ad but she said she also had guys showing up at her house with some of them trying to get in.

    I don’t know which is scarier, the ad itself or the guys who actually believed it and tried getting into her house.

  • Ga. craigslist rapist has HIV

    Police: Craigslist Rapist Has HIV:

    DeKalb County police in Georgia have arrested 18-year-old Allen Jamar McDowell of Decatur, Georgia for raping two women that he met through craigslist. The article infers that McDowell is also HIV positive.

    Detectives say Allen Jamar McDowell of Decatur convinced two women on separate occasions to meet him at an apartment off Kensington Road. The apartment was vacant, but McDowell allegedly gained access and held the women captive while he sexually assaulted them.

    Take away the anonymity of craigslist and I doubt this coward would have even struck.

    Police think there may have been more victims.

  • GA man arrested for child molestation

    Nehemiah Musa Wells
    Nehemiah Musa Wells

    MySpace Hook-Up With Teen Lands Atlanta Man In Jail:

    22-year-old Nehemiah Musa Wells was arrested this past Wednesday for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl he met on MySpace.

    The girl’s father found Wells hiding in the girl’s bedroom.

    The arrest warrant says Wells first met the girl at her home on November 1st and engaged in sexual intercourse with the girl without her consent at the time.

    So he’s a child rapist too.

    But again 13 is below the minimum age for MySpace but there are no safety checks in place to keep a 13-year-old off of MySpace because none exist. Unless you want to count parents as a safety check.

  • 31 and 13 both say they’re 16

    31 and 13 both say they’re 16

    Man Arrested After Meeting 13-year-old Girl on MySpace:

    31-year-old Corey Hubbard of Valdosta, Georgia was arrested after taking a 13-year-old girl from Canton, Georgia he met on MySpace to a hotel. Here’s the mileage in case you were wondering.

    Both we’re pretending to be 16-year-olds on MySpace. In case you were wondering again, 16 is the age of consent in Georgia.

    Investigators said the two ended up at a Canton motel in the middle of the night. Officers said fortunately, the young girl had second thoughts. Investigators said Hubbard paid for a room, but just before going inside, the girl told Hubbard that she needed to make a phone call.

    “She text messaged her friend and her father called back and told her to get to the hotel manager’s office,” said Sergeant Baker.

    Pryush Patel, the hotel manager who called 911 said, “She told me she was here with someone and she was scared.”

    When authorities arrived at the hotel, the girl was reunited with her parents and Hubbard was arrested.

    Luckily, the girl had second thoughts or else we might be talking about this as a missing child story…

    “This turned out pretty good considering the items we found in the trunk, a knife, rope, rubber gloves and a cooler,” said Sergeant Baker.

    It sounds like they might have been finding this girl in 5 different counties.

    Again, parents, if you ever needed any more incentive to monitor your kids’ internet activity, this should be it.

  • More on Atlanta child prostitution

    More on Atlanta child prostitution

    Teen suicide spurs war on child prostitution:

    This is an article about Atlanta’s war on child prostitution. It briefly mentions craigslist and its usual denial of facilitation…

    Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin wrote to craigslist founder Craig Newmark and Chief Executive Jim Buckmaster in August, urging them to remove postings of women engaged in activity that broke Georgia law and called on other mayors to file similar protests.

    Buckmaster said the company “shares Mayor Franklin’s concerns and are evaluating her suggestions.”

    The site warns its users that it prohibits illegal activity but he added: “We do not monitor the content of more than 25 million free postings craigslist users self-publish each month.”

    But I mostly wanted to point out the plight of Samantha Walker, who committed suicide after testifying against one of the men who paid to have sex with her when she was 15.

    This is why I believe that craigslist needs to eliminate its erotic services section. Please read the entire article.

    There are no victimless crimes.

  • Prostitution in Atlanta

    Prostitution in Atlanta

    Oldest Profession Has Young Victims, New Methods: Ann Woolner:

    This is a great article about Atlanta’s perceived problem with child prostitution and what police are doing to combat it. Of course, craigslist is brought into the conversation because Mayor Shirley Franklin previously called craigslist on the carpet for facilitating child prostitution.

    The author of the article, Ann Woolner, tried to contact craigslist about this and was met with the usual response.

    I tried to contact craigslist Chief Executive Officer Jim Buckmaster to ask whether he had instituted any reforms since Franklin wrote him in August seeking closer monitoring, more stringent warnings and a tougher attitude toward those who advertise illegal services or otherwise break the Web site’s rules. Questions e-mailed to a press contact for Buckmaster weren’t answered.

    How long will craigslist continue to stick its fingers in its ears and go “LALALALALALALALALALALALA I’M NOT LISTENING”?

  • Regulatin’ Rasslin’

    Regulatin’ Rasslin’

    Georgia May Regulate Wrestling as a Sport In Response to Chris Benoit Murder-Suicide:

    In a knee-jerk response to the Chris Benoit murder-suicide, the State of Georgia, where the crime took place, is considering regulating professional wrestling as a real sport.

    These politicians may think that they’re protecting wrestlers from steroids and concussions by enacting such legislation, but they’re really not.

    I believe it was Oregon that tried a similar regulation not too many years ago. They were regulating wrestling because of health concerns. I believe it was because of the blood that wrestlers shed in matches that Oregon officials were trying to protect wrestlers and fans from blood-borne diseases such as HIV and hepatitis.

    So what did the wrestling companies do? They just didn’t go to Oregon anymore. That will be the same thing that happens to Georgia if they enact any kind of legislation like that. Which would mean no more Pay Per Views in Georgia, which would mean a loss of revenue for the state. That would be a shame because Georgia has such a rich history of professional wrestling.

    Also, if you regulate pro wrestling you’d have to regulate other non-sporting events as well such as the circus or rock concerts.

    Besides, this won’t really protect the wrestlers. They’ll be doing the same things they’ve always done, just in another state.

  • craigslist denies child prostitution facilitation

    craigslist denies child prostitution facilitation

    Responding to concerns:

    It wasn’t that long ago that the Mayor of Atlanta, Shirley Franklin, chided craigslist for facilitating child prostitution. Of course, craigslist brushed it off. One of Ms. Frankin’s advisors even mentioned that Facebook and MySpace have been very forthcoming with the mayor’s office, even when not legally obligated to do so.

    However, our favorite craigslist mouthpiece, Susan MacTavish Best, had this to say…

    “Craigslist has an erotic services section on the site because our users asked us to create it in order to keep the personals section clear of erotic service ads. (Some folks when looking for a date do not want to have to look at ads for erotic services). Certainly, we … don’t want the site to be used for illegal activity. But we do believe that there should be a place for people to advertise legal escort services. We have over 30 million users a month. As we responded to the Mayor of Atlanta, we are always interested in hearing how we can make Craigslist better. Craigslist makes no money from erotic services because like most of the site, it is free to post there … “

    Legal escort services? No such thing, my dear. They may pose as legal, but we all know what they’re fronts for. And again you say that you don’t want craigslist used for illegal activities, but you’re not doing anything to discourage it. So basically by moving the erotic services section out of the personals, you just swept it under the rug hoping nobody would notice.

    What’s it going to take craigslist before you do something about this? Are you waiting for a toddler to get pimped out or worse?

  • A politician finally notices craigslist

    A politician finally notices craigslist

    Mayor rips craigslist over child prostitution:

    Finally, a politician has noticed the wretched hive of scum and villainy that craigslist has become. And if anybody knows anything about scum and villainy, it’s the mayor of Atlanta, Shirley Franklin. (That was a dig against the city, not necessarily the mayor.) Anyway, she has come out against craigslist accusing them of being facilitators of child prostitution.

    “Children are being marketed through craigslist,” Franklin said Tuesday during an update on the mayor’s “Dear John” campaign, a crackdown on the city’s child prostitution industry.

    Craigslist, found on the Web at craigslist.org, may be best known as a bulletin board for people who want to sell a car, buy a home or meet people. But Atlanta vice officer Kelleita Thurman said Tuesday that craigslist and similar sites account for 85 percent of the sexual liaisons men arrange in Atlanta with boys and girls.

    In a letter sent Tuesday to the company, Franklin said the site could do more to prevent itself from being used “as a means of promoting and enabling child prostitution.” She called on the site to revise its warning on pages for erotic services and personal ads and to remove postings that offer sexual services for sale, among other things.

    As usual, craigslist had their same non-answers…

    Craigslist spokeswoman Susan MacTavish Best said in an e-mail that she and Chief Executive Officer Jim Buckmaster are in Europe and “neither of us are aware of such a letter so it would not be possible to comment about this.”

    Company founder Craig Newmark, who also was mailed Franklin’s letter, no longer is involved in the company’s daily affairs and is traveling, Best said.

    Maybe this is the first step in politicians recognizing what a crime-filled scumhole craigslist’s erotic services section is.

  • More Athletic Sodomy

    More Athletic Sodomy

    I found this article thanks to BadJocks.com.

    Two expelled over hazing:

    In this instance, two Georgia high school wrestlers who were seniors attempted to sodomize a freshman wrestler with a jump rope handle. The seniors were expelled and face criminal charges.

    One of the fathers of the seniors said that his son was being made a scapegoat and that it’s the school’s fault for not properly supervising these kids. Yes, some responsibility should fall on the school, but did you ever think of telling your son that it’s not ok to rape other athletes with a jump rope handle?

    A father was also being quoted as saying that hazing has been a long-standing tradition at this school. I’m sorry, but where I come from, forced sodomy is not a tradition. No wonder these kids are so fucked up in the head. It’s because their parents do nothing to discourage this kind of behavior.