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.