17
December
NEW VICE SQUADS TROLL THE WEB FOR CHILD PORN
Within minutes of a 14 year old named Scottie getting on a Web site where gay teens exchange electronic messages, a middle-aged man from Indiana engages him in a private conversation. The man suggests they act out a fantasy where he kidnaps the boy and then the conversation turns to hard-core pornography. Scottie is not Scottie and he is not a 14-year-old boy. He is a member of the US Customs CyberSmuggling Center who is prowling the Internet for rings that are trading child-porn images or sexual predators who are