Fort Hood solider charged in sexual assault case :
Two soldiers have been charged with sexual assault of a child, one of them from Fort Hood, after being accused of having sex with a San Angelo girl they met on Myspace.com.
Eighteen-year-old Ephrem Christopher Jones of Fort Hood allegedly admitted he had sex with the girl but says he thought she was 16.
And here we have Jones’ MySpace but it’s been set to private.
Sex-Assault Suspect Faces More Charges:
“Alleged” child rapist Scott Shefelbine from Connecticut has been arrested again. You can read about all his exploits here.
TOLLAND — Scott D. Shefelbine was arrested Wednesday night for allegedly preying on another teenage girl for sex.
This time, the 31-year-old Tolland man was charged with restraining and attempting to rape a 15-year-old girl in the parking lot of Tolland High School. State police from Troop C served Shefelbine with a warrant Wednesday night charging him with criminal attempt at first-degree sexual assault, second-degree unlawful restraint, third-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor. Police did not say when the incident took place.
Shefelbine, of 167 Mountain Spring Road, was already facing multiple charges of sexually assaulting young teenage girls, some of whom he met on Myspace.com, a social networking website that is popular with teenagers. Prior to his arrest Wednesday, he was free on $1 million bail posted by his parents, who run a computer business from their home.
He is now accused of assaulting at least seven girls. One of those, from West Hartford, told police that she had sexual contact with Shefelbine on numerous occasions, including at least once when she lived in Tolland before she turned 16.
In court documents, the accused is described as portraying himself as age 17 or 19 to teenage girls and their parents. Police searching his home have recovered hair pieces that investigators say he used to hide his receding hairline and bald spot.
According to this article, Shefelbine posted bond and was released. So now this scumbag is back out on the streets.
What I find strange is that Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has repeatedly called for MySpace to make their site safer for children yet the state can’t keep repeat offenders like Shefelbine and David Leonard off the streets.
Vernon man charged again with MySpace sex assault:
David Leonard, our favorite Connecticut child molester, has been arrested AGAIN!!! You can check out just some of his earlier exploits here and here.
NEW BRITAIN – A Vernon man was served with an arrest warrant Monday morning for another sexual-assault charge stemming from his use of the profile Web site MySpace.com
The man, David Leonard, 22, was charged with second-degree sexual assault, risk of injury to a minor, employing a minor in an obscene gesture, promoting a minor in an obscene performance, and enticing a minor, according to the New Britain Herald.
The incident took place in 2004 in New Britain, and involved a 14-year-old girl, New Britain police Sgt. Gregory Wright said.
Leonard, a former Central Connecticut State University student, was first arrested on Jan. 30 on charges of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old Vernon girl he met through MySpace.
Leonard was arrested a second time and accused of fondling a 12-year-old Newington girl and her friend of the same age in a wooded area.
Leonard was arrested a third time on June 16, accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in New Britain, and was arrested for the fourth time in early August and charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Wethersfield.
In October, a Superior Court judge signed a fifth arrest warrant against Leonard.
After the last arrest in October, Assistant State’s Attorney Louis Luba told the Herald that police are expecting to arrest Leonard again on allegations of sexual assault against minors in Torrington and Vernon.
Leonard also was arrested recently on a warrant out of Litchfield County, Luba told The Herald.
Luba added that this would bring the total number of suspected cases to around 10.
In addition to the sexual assault charges, Leonard has pending charges for carrying a weapon in a motor vehicle, failure to appear, and resisting arrest after police said he tried to run away from them when they came to his house in January.
How many times does a child molester have to be arrested before they stop arresting him and just put him in jail?
THE girl at the centre of the Werribee DVD sex assault investigation was allegedly in a continuing relationship with one of the teens.
Copies of the DVD, which showed sexual acts and the girl’s hair being set alight, were sold at schools.
Sources have told the Herald Sun at least one of the teens caught on the DVD continued a relationship with the victim for several months after the degrading film was made.
Police are investigating whether rape charges can be laid against any of the teens involved.
The relationship may become vital in investigations as to whether consent for sex was given during the filming of the DVD, titled C— the Movie, and the charges police can lay.
And so what if she was? Does that make the assault any less wrong?
However, I do like this part…
It is possible some of the youths captured in the crude DVD may be charged as adults.
At least one of the youths questioned by police has turned 18 since the offences took place in June.
Most of those in the video are believed to be aged 16 and 17.
Under Victorian law a person can be tried as an adult if they have turned 18 since the offence.
I wish they would try this in the U.S.
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.
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.
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.
Man Sentenced For Molesting Girl He Met On MySpace:
I originally posted about Luis Alvarado here and here…
VISTA, Calif. — A 19-year-old Hollywood man who admitted molesting a 13-year-old Oceanside girl he met on the popular MySpace.com Web site was sentenced Friday to three years in state prison.
Freddy Luis Alvarado is “deserving of this prison commitment because of (his) selfish and predatory conduct,” Vista Superior Court Judge K. Michael Kirkman said.
Alvarado pleaded guilty to felony lewd acts with a minor under the age of 14 with substantial sexual contact.
Alvarado told a probation officer that he thought the girl was 15 or 16, and that sometimes men can’t control their desires, according to the report.
Deputy District Attorney Steven Carver told the judge that the victim’s MySpace page listed her age as 14.
“She looks like 12 or 13 in appearance,” Carver said.
The girl testified in a preliminary hearing that she lied about her age because MySpace requires members to be 14.
The probation report said that friends of the girl convinced her to tell her mother what happened.
The mother told the judge that her daughter “is still a mess.”
The girl cries a lot, has withdrawn from her family and misses school frequently, the woman said.
“I’m sick to my stomach for what Freddy Alvarado did to my daughter,” she said. “I’m sick to my stomach for what he did to our family.”
Defense attorney George Bye told the judge his client is remorseful and apologizes for what took place.
Alvarado will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
Alvarado’s MySpace is still up but it has been set to private.
Heather Ann Tucci, an 18-year-old motorist accused of swigging vodka just before a crash in August that killed two of her friends, refused to talk with investigators about what happened.
But she apparently opened up on MySpace, admitting the crash was “my fault” and taking “full responsibility” for the deaths.
Now authorities are aiming to use those words against her. Investigators have obtained a search warrant to get records from MySpace to confirm that Tucci authored the posting.
Tucci is charged with two counts of criminal vehicular homicide in the Aug. 19 wreck in White Bear Township. The one-car crash killed passenger Joseph Murphy Renner, 19, and Joseph E. Shafer, 19.
Tucci also was charged with criminal vehicular operation in connection with injuries her best friend, Samantha Eileen Ziebell, 18, suffered.
According to a criminal complaint, Tucci was drinking from a bottle of vodka while driving south on Everton Avenue at about 11:30 p.m. Authorities said she failed to make a sharp left turn onto 120th Street on the east side of Bald Eagle Lake and struck a tree.
Tucci was found to have a blood-alcohol level of 0.12 percent, according to the complaint. The legal limit is 0.08 percent. Marijuana also was found in the car, according to a Ramsey County sheriff’s investigator.
MySpace, a popular social-networking Web site, has a page with Tucci’s full name, date of birth and picture. Her profile includes the headline “RIP Renner and Shafer – I love you.”
A posting on the site states:
“I just want to let everyone know August 19 2006 Joe Renner and Joe Shafer died and me and Samatha were hurt. I’m sure a lot of you really don’t give a (expletive) about me. Fine whatever you have your reasons I don’t blame you but really think about it. Both of them knew what they were getting in to. Yes it’s my fault because I was the driver but think about how many of you did what I did. Now don’t get me wrong I take full responsability (sic) for everything that happened…. I never ment (sic) to do this. Like I said please learn from what I did.
Thanks to the article we also have Heather Tucci’s MySpace.
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.”