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”.
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.
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.
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.
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 predator behind bars.
Former Mountie cops plea One day in jail for trying to lure underage girls using Internet:
A while ago, I posted about former Canadian Mountie Adam Jonathan Clarke. He was arrested for trying to lure teen girls for sex over Nexopia. Last week, he pleaded guilty to two counts of communicating to lure a child under age 18. What sentence did he receive? A day in jail.
I guess the Mounties always get their man but the courts set them free.
MySpace sex offender gets 3½ years in prison:
Another pioneer of the MySpace predators has been sentenced. John Wentworth of Naperville, Illinois, was sentenced to only 3 1/2 years behind bars for having sexual contact with an underage teen he met on MySpace.
As far as I can tell, Wentworth only had internet contact with his victims. I wonder how many have not come forward, since the article states he would send out 50 messages a day on MySpace.
“This is not an isolated incident or a single offense,” Judge Perry Thompson said as he sentenced Wentworth. Wentworth was charged last year with two felonies after he met a 15-year-old Naperville girl online and then during a subsequent meeting engaged in sexual activity with her.
“This event devastated my family,” the teen, now 16, said in court before sentencing.
I’m sure the judge’s hands were tied with sentencing, but 3 1/2 years is not enough to discourage this predator from trying again.
Batavia sex offender guilty, gets 10 years:
48-year-old Gregory Mexin of Batavia, New York, was sentenced to 10 years behind bars after pleading guilty to indecent solicitation of a child, failure to notify police of a change of address while a registered sex offender and possession of child pornography. It seems Mr. Mexin is a well-rounded pedophile. Mexin was arrested back in December for soliciting sex from a 14-year-old girl who was actually an undercover cop. Do these perverts not watch Dateline?
Thanks to Tim, we have Mexin’s MySpace. Under “Who I’d like to meet” Mexin put “Women between 38 and 55 for dating, possible relationships or I am open to whatever the woman has in mind.” Apparently, by 38 to 55 he meant inches tall.
More girls linked to sex abuse suspect:
It seems one of our favorite new fiends, Joseph Polk, aka Boomalicious, may have some more skeletons in his closet. Not only did he allegedly pose as a teenage boy on MySpace to contact underage girls, it seems that he may have done it on Tagged.com as well. On his Tagged.com profile, Polk had 30 friends listed, all under the age of 16. So investigators believe there still may be more victims.
But what makes this article so good is Polk’s line of defense.
Polk denies he had any sexual contact with minors and claims he set up the accounts to research Internet stalkers, said his attorney, Phil Studenberg.
What a coincidence that he just happens to be accused of inappropriate contact with a 14-year-old girl.
Thanks to Pilar for the link.
Naperville Man Pleads Guilty In MySpace Sex Abuse:
John Wentworth, who I posted about here, has pleaded guilty to felony charges of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and indecent solicitation of a child.
Unfortunately, the most he’s looking at is seven years in prison.