Katie Tarbox, 13, met the love of her life on the Internet. Unfortunately, he was a sexual predator waiting for the chance to strike. Mark, 23, was sweet and understanding and became her cyber-soulmate. At the age of 14, she found herself alone in a Texas hotel room with him. While on a trip with her school swim team, they set up a meeting. Her mother was also on the trip but Katie roomed with a friend. The meeting took place and she told him she loved him but he
Timothy Dowd, 36, a firefighter, has been charged with acting lewdly in front of two teenage girls as they walked to school. Dowd, a 12 year veteran assigned to Ladder 154 in Jackson Heights, and whose brother is rogue cop Michael Dowd who is serving 14 years in federal prison for taking tens of thousands of dollars from narcotics dealers in Brooklyn, was arrested and charged with public lewdness and endangering the welfare of a child. The girls, ages 13 and 14, reported the May 5th incident where he was
Diane M. Ross, 45, is accused of using e-mail to trade hundreds of pornographic images of children around the country. The associate professor who heads the English department at Lake Forest College pleaded not guilty to charges of three felony counts of disseminating child pornography. She is free on $20,000 recognizance bond and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 1st.
(Waukegan, Illinois)
According to APBnews.com, officials are mulling a proposal, believed to be the first in the nation, that would restrict supervised sex offenders’ access to the Web by requiring them to use an Internet service provider (ISP) that filters out pornographic and sexually oriented online sites. The idea was proposed to ensure that sex offenders on probation do not visit adult-oriented sites. The ban would also extend to chat rooms and Internet discussion areas called Usenet newsgroups. Other jurisidictions have restricted sex offenders’ access to computers, but the Bexar County proposal
With a few clicks of the mouse, anyone can learn whether a sex offender has moved into the neighborhood instead of having to visit their police station, dial a 900 number armed with detailed information about a suspected pedophile or wait for their school district to send them a letter. A Long Island based parents’ group has set up it’s own Web site listing 262 convicted and released sex offenders from across the state. Only high-risk offenders who committed their crimes after the law took effect in January 1996 are
According to APBnews.com, Nathan Fisher, 47, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for molesting, raping and
secretly videotaping young girls, using his sons as bait to lure them to his home. He had video cameras set up in his bathroom in his room and secretly taped the girls on the toilet and changing their clothes. Child molestation counts when he touched the girls for purposes of gratification in their private areas. A statutory rape charge involves a girl who was 13 years old at the time. He pleaded
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