Teacher pleads not guilty in MySpace messaging case:
I originally posted about Scott Dietlin here. He’s the teacher from Petaluma, California who was caught sending sexually explicit messages to a 15-year-old girl named Jackie on MySpace. ‘Jackie’ was actually a group of kids who set up a fake profile but attracted Dietlin’s attention.
Tuesday Dietlin pleaded not guilty to the charges against him and is still being held on $700K bond.
He’s looking at 5 years behind bars.
Cops: Teen boys pretend to be girl on MySpace, help catch teacher looking for date:
34-year-old Scott Eugene Dietlin was a teacher at Casa Grande High School in Petaluma, California. He’d probably still be if it wasn’t for those meddling kids.
A bunch of 15-year-old boys created a fake profile of a 15-year-old girl named ‘Jackie’. Dietlin contacted the fake girl and the boys played along. Dietlin, of course, sent the prerequisite naked pics of himself to ‘Jackie’. The boys finally decided to getting around to calling police.
But here’s a puzzler for you. Is what the boys did any different from what Lori Drew did? Discuss.
Calgary man pleads guilty to trying to lure teens over the Internet:
27-year-old Matthew Allan Armstrong of Calgary pleaded guilty to three differences of luring underage girls over Nexopia. One of the girls was a 20-year-old posing as an underage girl after watching ‘To Catch a Predator’, another was an undercover police officer, and one was actually a 15-year-old girl.
After he was arrested he violated his parole by using an internet cafe to contact another underage girl.
This guy should be put away forever because even the threat of prison couldn’t get him to stop.
Plainsboro man charged with luring 13-year-old via MySpace:
28-year-old Derek McDonough of Plainsboro, New Jersey was arrested on charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl he met on MySpace.
If the allegations are true then McDonnough is a loser and I’m sure someone who knows him will give us some excuse. And if they do they might have a surprise coming their way but I’ll save that for later. Anyway, I have an issue with the girl’s parents because of this quote…
…the girl’s parents became suspicious about their daughter’s internet activity…
If you haven’t figured it out by now you should be suspicious of all your teen’s internet activities. They’re either up to something or they’re not savvy enough to protect themselves from predators.
Naperville police say paroled rapist tried to lure girl online:
It’s been a while since I posted a story about Naperville, Illinois but here we are. Outside of Connecticut, Naperville seems like the MySpace predator capital of the world.
This time paroled rapist Bryan E. Halstead, 44, of Chicago Heights was arrested in Naperville for posing as a teenage boy to meet an underage girl. The underage girl was actually Naperville police.
There originally was a girl but her astute parents discovered Halstead’s message and contacted police.