Category Archive for : ‘INTERNET OFFENDER CASES’

Douglas I. Scott, 34, thought he was communicating with a 12 year old boy online, instead he was actually communicating with a police officer.  He was arranging a sexual encounter with the boy.  Scott has been sentenced to 12 years in prison Tuesday, two more years than prosecutors had sought.  According to the Chicago Tribune, Scott was a former security monitor and assistant athletic trainer at Elk Grove High School when he was arrested in 1997 for possessing child pornography that he downloaded from the Internet.  He lost his job

Richard Patterson, 28, is the first of four men caught seeking underage sex partners on the Internet that was sentenced to four years in prison.  He drove to a mall to meet what he thought would be a 15 year old boy named Rob.  According to the Chicago Tribune, he met Rob on the Internet but Rob turned out to be Sheriff’s Deputy Rick White.  Patterson was convicted of attempted aggravated criminal sexual abuse.

(Illinois)

Two North Carolina State University students have been arrested.  They are accused of storing child pornography on a computer.  Jon Richard Brock, 18, was charged with two counts of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and Timothy Joseph Gilrane, 22, is charged with first-degree sex offense.  According to the Associated Press, police said Brock stored pictures on his hard drive showing a minor engaged in a sexual act and Gilrane allegedly made the pictures available on a Web site and was trading pictures.

John Lee Schaefer, 50, is accused of 39 counts of possessing child pornography, carrying a possible prison term of more than 75 years.  Schaefer, a former technical college employee, learned of an on-going investigation last July and quit his job at Fox Valley Technical College.  Investigators at the state crime lab in Madison recently broke a security code on the man’s desktop computer and discovered images of mostly juvenile males.  He told a college vice president, They took my computer and they’re going to find everything.  The charges carry a

Shannon W. Coleman, 24, of Lake Worth used the online screen name SHAWN4LOVE to meet girls.  He was arrested on Friday on charges of having sex with underage girls that he met online.  His first victim was a 15 year old girl on AOL that he met at her home and brought her to his house where he had sex with her.  His second victim was an 11 year old girl on AOL that he met with and later sexually assaulted her in her home.  He has been charged with

Jack Hornbeck, 45, used the city’s main library branch computers to distribute and receive kidporn.  Hornbeck is a child molester.  He was arrested in Van Nuys where he went expecting to meet a family and engage in sexual activity with the children.  He is being held in lieu of $50,000 bail.  He is a registered sex offender and was on probation when he was arrested.  He was first identified in December 1998, when he was located on the Internet operating a child pornography and child sex club.  Using various computers