TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: solicitation of a minor

  • Another case of 15 will get you 20

    Man, 35, charged after MySpace contact leads to rendezvous with girl:

    The headline is a little misleading but I’ll get into that in a second.

    35-year-old Gregory S. Malecki, of Feeding Hills, Mass. is under arrest for using MySpace to communicate with a 15-year-old New York State girl for purposes of sex. Malecki has ties to the New York area and met the girl before the two started talking on MySpace. Malecki was arrested when attempting to meet his victim.

    In early November, the teen went to the Child Advocacy Center to complain about prior non-consensual activity, Salamone said. Malecki might face additional charges relating to that incident, he said.

    I could not find a definitive MySpace for Malecki

  • Reno man arrested for luring teen boys

    Police: Reno man used Craigslist to lure boys to home:

    32-year-old Jason Hunter was arrested on Thursday for using craigslist to lure two teen boys to his home before sexually assaulting one of them.

    According to police, the suspect met the two boys, 13 and 15, through Craigslist under the ruse he was a 20-year-old woman.

    During online conversations, the “woman” asked the boys to come over to her cousin’s home where they could party, investigators said.

    One of the boy’s misled his mother into giving them a ride there, saying instead it was a friend’s home.

    Hunter is accused of providing them alcohol. Both boys later passed out on his bed, and the younger boy told police he awoke to find the suspect sexually assaulting him.

    Granted this guy is a piece of trash that should be locked away in a hole somewhere but what parent allows their kids to go on craigslist? Just like everything else I’m guessing that most parents aren’t even aware what lurks on craigslist let alone knowing what it is.

  • Family fun on craigslist

    Craigslist.org a source of crimes:

    It seems that other news outlets are picking up on how much crime goes on through craigslist. This is an article from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette that relates at least one story that I missed.

    But sometimes, the questionable listings aren’t flagged — for instance, the one police say Brian Lee Nestor posted back in September.

    According to an affidavit filed in his case in federal court, Mr. Nestor, 44, of Squirrel Hill, put a listing under Craigslist’s “Casual Encounters” section.

    It read: “Anybody into family fun?” followed by, “bring your son and hang out with us.”

    A Greensburg police officer who handles computer crimes for the jurisdiction found the ad on Sept. 9.

    He responded to the posting, saying that “Family fun sounds great, reply with age, limits, a photo would be great.”

    The police officer and Mr. Nestor corresponded through e-mail for several days. According to the affidavit, Mr. Nestor, who also solicited child pornography, became frustrated: “Look I’m tired of these endless e-mails. … I’m just looking to get with a boy discreetly.”

    In one exchange, Mr. Nestor, who was previously investigated by the FBI but not charged for having thousands of images of child pornography on his computer, wrote that when they met, the two men would have to expose themselves to each other to ensure that neither was a cop.

    He was arrested Sept. 14 and charged with coercion and enticement, as well as possession of child pornography. Mr. Nestor’s arraignment is scheduled for Tuesday.

    So let’s add pedophilia and child molestation to the list of things that craigslist is helping to facilitate. craigslist’s mouthpiece Susan MacTavish Best had the usual to say…

    …inappropriate ads…flagged by users…blah blah blah…

    But I may be paraphrasing.

    A lot of people think that newspapers, or old media if you will, have a vendetta against craigslist since they’ve taken a big chunk out of their newspapers revenue by not charging for classifieds. That may be true but doesn’t old media still have a responsibility to report the news? And this my friends is news that more people should be seeing.

  • Conn. Creeper Sentenced

    Man sentenced for arranging sex with girl he met on MySpace:

    I originally posted about Jason Palmeira here. He was charged with using the Internet to persuade a minor to engage in sexual activity and traveling in interstate commerce for the purpose of attempting to have, and having, illicit sexual conduct with a minor. That’s a mouthful. In English…

    Palmeira traveled on July 13 from Massachusetts to Connecticut to meet the girl, picking her up in a green sports car. He drove the girl to Massachusetts, bringing her to a location he described as his girlfriend’s house, the affidavit says.

    Once at the house, Palmeira is accused of having sexual contact with the girl, putting his finger in her vagina and driving her back to Connecticut, dropping her off at the Simsbury Public Library the following morning, according to the affidavit.

    Of course, this was all arranged over MySpace.

    For his troubles, Palmeira was sentenced to three years behind bars.

  • Bad Ronald

    MySpace predator sentenced to 10 years:

    51-year-old Ronald L. Phillips of Richmond, Virginia was sentenced to 10 years behind bars this past Monday for trying to meet up with a 14-year-old girl for sex over MySpace. Guess what. The 14-year-old girl was actually an agent for the FBI. Go figure. Phillips was arrested in a motel parking lot the night before he was supposed to meet “the girl”.

  • Predator sentenced, parent acts responsible

    Internet predator receives 17½ years:

    Now, this is a story about how responsible parents act.

    After a Naperville father noticed his daughter spending more time than usual on the Internet, he installed parental monitoring software to keep a closer eye on her.

    His action last summer may have kept the 13-year-old girl out of a convicted sex offender’s clutches.

    A Salt Lake City man was sentenced Tuesday to 17¨ years in federal prison in Utah for persuading the girl to send him sexually explicit photos of herself during three months of cyberspace chats and phone calls.

    Gerald Lee Wheeler, 41, was arrested last year in Utah after a multi-agency investigation. He pleaded guilty March 26 to one count of production of child pornography, which carries a mandatory 15-year minimum sentence.

    Prosecutors said Wheeler was trying to get the teen to meet him in New York for sex in exchange for a modeling contract. Fortunately, her father intervened before the girl was physically harmed.

    Of course, Wheeler is a registered sex offender in Utah.

    Anyway, do you see how easy it is to protect your kids? If not you shouldn’t be operating a computer in the first place.

  • West Philly man arrested for luring teens on MySpace

    Man Charged with Luring Teens on Myspace:

    27 or 28-year-old Jerome Booker of West Philadelphia was arrested for luring teens to his apartment while posing as a teenage girl named Jasmine and promised the boys sexual favors.

    Police are investigating to see if there have been any other victims.

    A word of advice for teens from your Ol’ Uncle Trench. The hot girl on MySpace doesn’t really want to have sex with you.

  • Joshua Innes

    Man guilty of luring teens over Internet:

    25-year-old Joshua Innes of Montreal pleaded guilty to charges of luring a child under 18 on the Internet, extortion, and distributing child pornography.

    Court heard in an agreed statement of facts that Innes posed as a 16-year-old girl named Nicky from Calgary on the popular social networking site Nexopia.

    Innes began exchanging messages with the Edmonton girl, complimenting her and eventually turned the topic toward sex.

    He sent her a video that showed a teenage girl performing a sex act which the victim believed was Nicky.

    After persistent coaxing, the girl took off her clothes and performed sexual acts in front of her web camera, which Innes recorded in Montreal on his computer.

    About a week later, “Nicky” asked the girl what was the worst thing she’s ever done. She said she once talked about a friend behind her back and asked Nicky the same question. He replied, “I pretended to be a 16-year-old girl on the Internet.”

    Innes then demanded she perform more sex acts for the webcam or he would upload the video on the web and send it to people listed as friends on her Nexopia profile.

    The victim told a friend who alerted her parents, who called police.

    When an Edmonton police officer, Det. Randy Wickens, posed online as the victim, Innes aggressively demanded the girl perform again or he would send out the video.

    Innes was arrested in his home where he lived with his parents.

    Sentencing will take place in August.

  • Convicted murderer trolling for teens on MySpace

    AG: Murderer Trolling MySpace for Teen Girls:

    52-year-old Robert Nathaniel-Roosevelt Reeves II of Detroit, Michigan was arrested yesterday for trying to meet with a 14-year-old girl on MySpace. As you can guess the 14-year-old girl was actually an undercover Michigan Attorney General Special Agent.

    Reeves sexual advances to the undercover agent became increasingly more aggressive and quickly led to Reeves soliciting and arranging a meeting with the undercover agent posing as the 14-year-old girl in a Novi parking lot. Reeves was immediately arrested when he appeared for the rendezvous by Attorney General Special Agents in Novi on Sunday, April 29, 2007.

    Reeves is looking at two separate felony charges that both carry a 20-year sentence.

    Reeves previously spent 1974-1987 in prison on a 2nd-degree murder conviction.

  • Ex-US Weekly editor busted on craigslist

    Fmr. US Weekly Editor Tried to Have Sex With Minor:

    You just never know what’s lurking in people’s closets.

    A former US Weekly editor was sentenced to six years in prison for using the Internet to try to have sex with a 13-year-old girl. Federal prosecutors say Timothy McDarrah responded to an FBI posting on “Craigslist” offering to pay $200 for sex with a minor.

    The FBI says McDarrah asked “What it’ll cost for the cutest white 14-year-old girl with a pony tail in the whole 8th grade?” Investigators say he later communicated with 13 year-old “Julie” wanting to provide her with “sex lessons.” The 45 year-old writers was convicted back in December after an eight day trial.

    You’d think a journalist would have better instincts than that. Oh well, one more pedophile behind bars.