Category Archive for : ‘INTERNET OFFENDER CASES’

OnlineAthens.com/Joe Johnson

New York-based Parents for Megan’s Law recently expanded its Sex OffenderRegistration Tips program to the state of Georgia, helping people to report if a sex offender isworking with children or violating the law in some other way.  The non-profit group usesretired New York Police Department investigators who vet tips to determine if they seem viable,then contact local probation and parole officers to let them know an offender might be engaged inprohibited activities, said Laura Ahearn, the group;s executive director.  It’s a way forpeople to report offenders who are believed

Newsday/Jennifer Barrios

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday that two more social-networking websiteshave agreed to help rid their sites of child pornography by blocking images that are in theattorney general’s database of known child porn.  The addition of LiveJournal, which hostsblogs, and Fotolog, a photo-sharing site, means that seven networking websites now use Cuomo’sdatabase as another tool in their on going efforts to rid their sites of the images.  MySpaceand Facebook, two of the most popular social networking sites, already use the database, as doFriendster, hi5 and isoHunt.  Laura Ahearn,

Foster’s Daily Democrat/Charles McMahon

Three registered sex offenders face charges following a three month long investigation into their alleged use of social networking sites and not notifying police.  Police say Eric White, 46, of Towle Farm Road, Christopher Daignault, 39, of 22 Mary Batchelder Road and Adam Miller, 31, of 85 Brown Avenue were operating under disclosed social networking pages and/or email addresses and failed to notify police.  Police say they do not believe that the offenders were using the online identifiers to conduct inappropriate activity but their failure to

Newsday.com/John Valenti

Luigi Murale, a 26 year old Garden City man, was arrested Tuesday on charges of sendingvideos of himself naked and performing lewd acts to someone he believed was a 14 year old girl, butwas an undercover officer.  Murale, of 6 Lydia Lane, was arraigned and remanded to the UlsterCounty Jail in lieu of $10,000 cash bail. 
(New York)

Daily News/Kenneth Lovett

In a major crackdown on Internet predators, more than 3,500 convicted New York sex offendershave been kicked off Facebook and MySpace, two online social networking sites.  This is thefirst sweep of registered sex offenders under the Electronic Security and Targeting of OnlinePredators Act (e-STOP), a 2008 law Attorney General Andrew Cuomo aggressively pushed.  LauraAhearn, executive director of Parents for Megan’s Law and the Crime Victims Center, said the factthousands of offenders were dumped proves the law is working.  Before e-STOP sexual predatorsfreely lurked in social networking sites

Newsday/William Murphy

Nassau County Legislator David Mejias proposed a bill yesterday aims at barring convicted sexoffenders on probation from having computer access to social Web sites where they could prey onyoungsters.  Sex offenders who used a computer in their crime could be required to registertheir computers with the county and allow the installation of monitoring software as a condition ofprobation. 
(New York)