Category Archive for : ‘INTERNET OFFENDER CASES’

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy has been touting a plan to provide free or affordable wireless fidelity, or WiFi, service to county residents so they can access the Internet anytime, anywhere.  But the problem with the proposal, some advocates and law enforcement officials say, is that it makes it easier for child sex offenders to download or distribute child pornography or sexually solicit children online, without being traced.     We have great concern because these sexual predators use IP [Internet protocol] addresses to go completely unnoticed, said Laura Ahearn, executive director

Increasingly, MySpace is a place for unfriendly attacks from digital miscreants on the Prowl, luring users to sexually explicit Web sites, clogging mailboxes with spam messages and playing on the trust users have when speaking to friends to obtain passwords that could lead to identity theft.  The bad guys are taking advantage of the same MySpace communication tools used to add friends or chat to send spam, and in some cases to send porn and offers to meet teens and minors.

(Los Angeles, California)

Daily News

Tim McDarrah, a 44 year old Us Weekly editor and former New York Post reporter, was charged onSeptember 15, 2005, with trying to pick up a 13 year old girl on the Internet for sex. He offeredto pay $200 for sex with a YOUNG hottie, and was nabbed when he showed up at a Manhattan buildingwhere he thought the girl lived. He was charged with using a computer to persuade a minor to engagein sex. An undercover federal agent pretended to be the girl.

McDarrah was convicted on December 20,

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rnSean Coraggio, a 22 year old Shirley man, who police said at one time was employedrnas a security guard in two Suffolk County school districts, was arrested early Tuesday and chargedrnwith multiple criminal sex acts with a minor. Coraggio, of 161 Forrest Avenue, is charged in arn29-count indictment with three counts of second-degree criminal sexual act, 13 counts of promotingrna sexual performance by a child and other crimes. Coraggio was previously employed as a securityrnguard in the Longwood and William Floyd school districts, as well as being a contactor

Department of Justice Press Release

John Gregory Jaroszynski, a 44 year old man from Indian Trail, North Carolina, was sentencedtoday by US District Judge Charles A. Pannell, Jr., on charges of using the internet to attempt toentice a child to engage in sexual activity. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison to be followedby 20 years of supervised release. Jaroszynski was convicted of these charges upon the entry of hisguilty plea on October 5, 2006. There was no actual child, he was talking with an undercoverdetective.

(Atlanta, Georgia)

Shiv Nair, a 45 year old man from Manhattan, allegedly thought he had arranged a sex rendezvous with a 13 year old girl, was charged yesterday with attempting to disseminate indecent material to a minor.  The teen was really an undercover detective.

(New York)