TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: MySpace

  • Peter Kennedy

    Peter Kennedy

    MySpace sex case prompts Internet parental warning:

    SHELBY TOWNSHIP — Macomb County’s top cop warned parents Tuesday about the potential dangers their children face on the Internet after a 22-year-old man was charged with having sex with an underage girl he met on the popular MySpace.com Web site.

    His comments come a day after Peter Kennedy, 22, of West Bloomfield was charged with having sex with a 14-year-old girl in Shelby Township.

    Police are not disclosing the girl’s identity because of her age.

    “He apparently had contacted the girl days before through MySpace.com,” said Sgt. Stan Muscynski of the Shelby Township Police Department’s Detective Bureau.

    Kennedy was arraigned Monday before Magistrate Michael Osaer in the 41-A District Court in Shelby Township on a first-degree criminal sexual conduct charge. Kennedy faces up to life in prison for the charge.

    Osaer set bond at $250,000 bond. Kennedy remained in police custody Tuesday at the Macomb County Jail.

    Kennedy’s attorney, Bloomfield Hills-based Elias Muawad, said the girl voluntarily left her home and met with his client and is now claiming forced sexual conduct.

    “Force is the key thing here,” he said. “My client also believed the girl was 16 because of statements she made to him.”

    The girl may have also told Kennedy she was 16 in exchanges they had over the Internet, Muawad said.

    “I’m hoping she doesn’t ruin this young man’s life and tells the truth about (giving her consent),” he said.

    A preliminary exam for Kennedy is scheduled for Nov. 20 before District Judge Douglas Shepherd.

    Kennedy was arrested after a police officer on patrol found him engaged in sex with the girl in a car at about 3 a.m. Sunday, said Muscynski.

    The car was in a parking lot in the 24 Mile and Van Dyke area, he said.

    The old “she said she was 16” defense. You know, just because it may be legal for a 22-year-old to have sex with a 16-year-old doesn’t make it right.

    Anyway, I was unable to find a current MySpace for this loser.

  • Harry Denney

    Harry Denney

    Police say Bethel man met teen on MySpace:

    Yet even another MySpace creeper from Connecticut. Is it something in the water?

    BETHEL — The 46-year-old Bethel man charged with attempted sexual assault after police found him in a parked car with a 15-year-old girl last week met the teen on MySpace.com, police said.

    Bethel Police Chief Jeffrey Finch said Monday that Harry Denney, of Rockwell Drive, met the underage girl on the popular social networking Web site about a year ago.

    He wouldn’t say if Denney and the teen had contact prior to the meeting that resulted in Denney’s arrest in the high school parking lot Friday.

    Officers who were patrolling the lot during a football game between Bethel and New Milford found the pair in a “suspicious vehicle” parked in a rear corner of the lot. Finch wouldn’t say what attracted attention to the car.

    In addition to the sexual assault count, Denney was charged with risk of injury to a minor and loitering on school grounds. He was released on $10,000 bond for an appearance Nov. 14 in Danbury Superior Court.

    The age difference between them is almost my age.

    I was unable to find Denney’s MySpace. Hopefully, a tipster will provide.

  • Valentine Lopez

    Valentine Lopez

    17-year-old sex assault suspect goes before judge:

    A registered sex offender who had been attending classes at Pasadena High School went before a judge Friday.

    He was there to hear the newest charge against him.

    Valentine Lopez, 17, is accused of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl he met on Myspace.com.

    The school district said it was already aware of his conviction three years ago for a sex crime against another child.

    But, officials added, there was nothing it could do at the time to separate Lopez from the other students.

    More details from another article…

    Lopez was taken into custody Wednesday, according to police.

    According to the DPS Website, Lopez is a registered sex offender, convicted in 2003 for a sexual assault case that involved a three-year-old victim.

    Pasadena ISD Superintendent Kirk Lewis explained that though the district was aware of Lopez’ past record, there was nothing they could do aside from providing the teen with an education.

    “The district will do everything it can always to protect its’ students,” he said. “In this particular instance, there were legal restrictions that prevented us from doing anything more than what we had already done. My understanding is that they’re currently working through the process for suspension, and completing the paperwork to have him moved to an alternative placement (facility).”

    According to Lewis, any student that lives within any school district must be provided an education by that school district. People were not notified of Lopez’ past convictions, said the superintendent, because the teen was protected by juvenile and privacy laws.

    It’s nice to know that a sex offender’s right to privacy outweighs the safety of the other kids attending that school.

    Thanks to Melissa for the tip. And thanks to Mr. A, we have Lopez’s MySpace. It says he’s in a relationship. I wonder if his SO knew about his record.

  • Jay Coffield sentenced

    Jay Coffield sentenced

    MySpace Predator Sentenced:

    I originally posted about Jay Coffield here.

    JOLIET, Ill. — A man who used the popular, youth-oriented MySpace.com Web site to arrange a sexual tryst with an underage Naperville girl has been sentenced to two years and two months in prison for that crime.

    Will County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Rozak meted out the prison term to Jay D. Coffield, 44, of Morris, state’s attorney James Glasgow confirmed Monday in a written statement.

    Coffield pleaded guilty Friday to a felony charge of indecent solicitation of a child. The allegation stemmed from his efforts earlier this year to arrange a sexual rendezvous with a 14-year-old Naperville girl.

    The girl’s 21-year-old cousin contacted Naperville police Detective Rich Wistocki on May 22, after discovering “inappropriate comments” directed at the teenager on the girl’s MySpace page, Glasgow said.

    “Taking a page from the online watchdog group Perverted Justice, this amateur sleuth set up her own undercover account online and began talking to Coffield online,” Glasgow said of the girl’s cousin.

    She then turned her account and other information over to Wistocki, the Naperville Police Department’s Internet Crimes Unit investigator, Glasgow said.

    Wistocki, posing as the teenager, continued corresponding with Coffield, who used the MySpace screen name of Mistercee42.

    Coffield ultimately suggested the girl meet him the evening of June 9 in a coffee shop near 95th Street and Route 59 on Naperville’s far southwest side. He indicated he would then take her to DuPage River Park, near Royce Road and Naper Boulevard on the city’s far southeast side, where they would have sex, police said in June.

    Coffield arrived at the coffee shop around 6:15 p.m. and was arrested immediately. Coffield, who had no criminal record at the time, told police it was the first time he had tried to arrange a meeting with a girl he had chatted with over the Internet.

    “No longer an anonymous Internet surfer looking for vulnerable children, Jay Coffield now will have a public prison sentence and his face online among other Illinois registered sex offenders,” Glasgow said.

    “Instead of just picking up the pieces after a child has been violated, we were able to expose and punish a predator before a child’s life was tragically affected.”

  • Another Werribee suspect?

    This comment on The Whole Story brings us the MySpace of this guy (goatse alert-NSFW) who left the following comments on another MySpace…

    10/24/2006 6:33 AM
    cheers m8 but u gotta understand i burnt her hair a little bit apoligised then wen she got pissed on gave her my shirt and im getting in fucking shit. evericunt thinks im a tite ass cause of the fucking media its bs.

    10/24/2006 6:25 AM
    m8 im not in the mood for ppl like u who have fucking no idea wats goin on puttin ur fucking $2 worth in. shes not fucking retarted she a normal girl. dont try and judge us m8 because none of us r in the mood for ppl like u tryin to be a sick cunt.

    So basically, he admits his participation in the “CTM” DVD but acts like he’s the victim. Prison couldn’t come fast enough for these assclowns.

  • Werribee victim speaks out

    Justin of The Whole Story, who first brought the Werribee story to my attention, has a great entry about the victim speaking out.

  • CTM still up for sale

    Werribee DVD assault offered for sale for $60:

    Some unscrupulous scumbag has decided to capitalize on the Werribee sex assault DVD…

    COPIES of the Werribee sex crimes DVD are being offered for sale at prices up to $60.

    The DVD – which shows teenagers engaging in sexual activity with a teenage girl before urinating on her and setting her hair on fire – was offered for sale at the weekend on the Melbourne Gumtree classifieds website.

    The vendor claims his daughter bought a copy of the video, dubbed C— The Movie, and has made copies which he is offering for sale.

    The DVD was first offered for sale on Saturday for $50, under the title Genuine C The Movie. The vendor asks would-be buyers to email their details if they want a copy.

    “I will be discreet and deliver even to PO Box if you like in plain wrapping and unlabelled DVD so nobody will know and we don’t get arrest (sic),” he writes.

    The DVD was re-advertised yesterday with the price jacked up to $60 in response to “increased demand”.

    The advertisement describes the DVD as a “Video of local sites and activities by local Melborne (sic) artists”.

    Let’s stop right there for a second. Artists? Since when is rape an art? Not to mention the fact that allegedly a parent of a student is selling this video.

    When the Herald Sun emailed the vendor anonymously yesterday, he said that when the DVD was sent the would-be buyer would get only a 10-minute preview.

    When payment arrived, he would give the buyer a password that gave them access to the entire movie.

    By 3pm (AEDT) yesterday the ad had been removed from the Melbourne Gumtree site.

    But the would-be salesman has also posted promotions on the personal websites belonging to some of the teenagers who feature in the DVD.

    “Movie now $60 only a few left email me … all profits to a good cos (sic),” he wrote.

    The DVD had been selling for just $5 at Werribee schools.

    But police last week said they were prepared to charge anyone who bought or downloaded the DVD with possession of child pornography.

    I hope the police find you and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law with extreme prejudice.

  • CTM 2

    DVD thugs ‘made break-in sequel’:

    Well, well, well. It seems that our favorite Australian teenage thugs from Werribee had a sequel in the works. It seems that vandalism, assault, and rape weren’t enough, and they went on to B & E…

    A SEQUEL to the Werribee sex crimes DVD is believed to show the thugs involved in a break-and-enter spree.

    Teenagers who claim to have seen footage say the mob rampages through homes, urinating in kettles and trashing private property.

    They claim several boys filmed feature in the original DVD, which shocked the nation with its portrayal of a pack of delinquents sexually abusing a mentally impaired girl.

    Students in Werribee know the gang as the “CTM Boys”.

    They say the group has promoted the sequel “CTM2” online.

    A boy, who gave his name as Ronnie, said the film shows some members of the group forcing their way into homes.

    “They were breaking into people’s houses and going through s—t and just trashing the places,” he said.

    “It was disgusting,

    “Like they were leaving s—t — I mean real s—t — in some places and they were pissing in things like cups and kettles.

    “These guys are seriously sick,

    “They’re bad, they’re giving us Werribee kids a bad name. We’re not all like that.”

    I wonder how long it would have been before they decided to make an honest to God snuff film. These kids need jail, not ‘help’. They’re beyond help.

  • Name and Shame

    ‘Avengers’ shame DVD suspects:

    YOUNG Australians are taking cyber revenge by “naming and shaming” the Werribee teenagers who filmed a young girl being sexually degraded and then sold DVDs of the attack.

    A MySpace website dubbed “CTM — name and shame” has been set up to publicly humiliate those involved in the filming and sale of the DVD.

    The site reveals pictures and names of the teens allegedly involved.

    “It’s time to name and shame those involved in the making of C— the Movie — watch this space!” the website says.

    “This MySpace is not affiliated with CTM. It was created for the purpose of naming and shaming those involved in making the movie.

    “Another thing: any comments attacking the girl involved will not be tolerated.”

    If you’re looking for the name & shame MySpace, it’s here. NSFW language on that MySpace.

  • Another victim of Shefelbine comes forward

    Another victim of Shefelbine comes forward

    Another teen girl comes forward in MySpace assault case:

    Another victim of scumbag rapist Scott Shefelbine has come forward…

    The latest girl to come forward about her relationship with Scott D. Shefelbine claims the last time they were together, the 31-year-old Tolland man and former Ellington High School teacher’s aide physically forced her to have sexual relations with him, according to an affidavit supporting his arrest.

    Shefelbine already is facing charges he sexually assaulted several other girls he met on MySpace.com.

    According to the arrest warrant affidavit, the girl’s father called West Hartford police Oct. 10 to say he’d just seen a television news report about a sexual predator using MySpace to lure young girls, and recognized Shefelbine from his mug shot as the boy dating his 16-year-old daughter.

    The father told police that Shefelbine had claimed to be 17 and had been to his house about 10 times, the affidavit says. He said he had asked Shefelbine to verify his age, but no identification ever was produced, according to the affidavit.

    After the father’s report police interviewed the girl, who said she’d met Shefelbine in late August in an online chat room. Initially, she voluntarily performed a sex act on him whenever they were together, the affidavit says, but the last time they were together, she refused and Shefelbine forced her.

    According to court documents, Shefelbine and the girl would communicate through instant messages on the computer, and he was able to obtain the girl’s cell phone number from her away message box.

    He called her, they chatted for an hour, and a few days later, on Aug. 25, he picked her up and drove her to his Tolland home, the affidavit says.

    While there they watched a movie and, according to the affidavit, Shefelbine gave the girl three bottles of raspberry-flavored vodka before suggesting “out of the blue” that she perform a sex act upon him.

    At first she said no and went outside to smoke a cigarette, but when she came back she found Shefelbine on the couch waiting for her expectantly, the affidavit states.

    The girl told police she complied then, and during each subsequent visit until their last meeting on Columbus Day.

    Shefelbine called her from the car on his way to her house and asked her to have sexual relations with him, the affidavit states, but she repeatedly told him no. When he got to the house, however, he physically forced her, the document states.

    The girl told police she didn’t want to comply, “but she did not know what else to do.”

    Shefelbine first was arrested on Oct. 10 by the Vernon Police Department on charges that he sexually assaulted four teenage girls.

    In those cases, police say Shefelbine used the Web site MySpace.com to meet teenage girls and their friends posing as a 17- to 19-year-old boy, using a hairpiece to hide his balding head.