Wacky Internet Predator Wednesday, Version 16.0
You know the drill… here’s this week’s round-up of scumbags caught trying to entice kids over the Internet for sex. In one case, a father came to the rescue!
These are three more reasons that parents need to be using parental control/monitoring software to make sure their kids are safe. In the example with the father, his 13-year-old son was having graphic sexual conversations with a 58-year-old man. You think you know what your kids are doing and whom they are talking to? Think again… Do yourself a favor, save yourself the headaches and anguish before it’s too late. Check out our PC Pandora monitoring software. Try it for free for 2 hours and see for yourself, in your own house, what I am talking about.
Here’s the summary; stories follow below:
- A substitute teacher in California involved in youth soccer was arrested in connection for trying to sexually entice a 13-year-old boy, which led police to find child pornography images. The police were tipped off by the boy’s father.
- A 24-year-old Indianna man was sentenced to 3 years and 10 months after admitting to droving across state lines (to Kentucky) to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor.
- A Hawaiian man was was sentenced to 10 years in prison for using the internet to solicit a Honolulu Police Department detective, whom he thought was a 13 year-old girl, to meet him for sex.
Coach Accused Of Child Porn Possession Held Without Bail
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A youth soccer volunteer and substitute teacher charged with possessing child pornography was ordered detained without bail Thursday during his initial appearance before a magistrate in Santa Ana’s federal courthouse.
George Harcourt Bull, 58, was arrested Wednesday at his Lake Forest home as part of an investigation that began when the father of a 13-year-old boy reported that a man using the screen name “joeycal” sent sexually explicit instant and text messages to his son, a tip that led authorities to Bull, according to Laura Eimiller of the FBI.
During his appearance Thursday, in which he wore a white Mission Viejo Classic soccer tournament T-shirt, Bull listened as a prosecutor called him a danger to the community.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Anne Gannon said that agents who searched Bull’s home Wednesday found, in addition to child pornography, about 50 floppy and compact discs that had been destroyed, possibly as an attempt to destroy evidence, and a handwritten list of boys’ names and ages who were youth soccer players.
“The defendant has substantial contact with minor children through his involvement with AYSO,” Gannon said, referring to the American Youth Soccer Organization.
Bull also had a newspaper clipping about a man who had received a 60-year state prison sentence for sexual abuse of boys, Gannon said.
Gannon also expressed concern that he would try to contact children and members of the community during the FBI’s investigation.
“This defendant poses a danger to minor children,” Gannon said, later adding that possessing child pornography is “a crime of violence.”
Defense attorney Thomas Wolfsen, a panel attorney with the court, asked U.S. Magistrate Arthur Nakazato to appoint him as Bull’s attorney, but Nakazato declined, saying Bull did not qualify for “free counsel.”
Nakazato allowed Wolfsen to represent Bull Thursday, but said Bull would have to pay $150 for Wolfsen’s time and would have to retain private counsel.
Wolfsen offered no argument in rebuttal to Gannon.
Nakazato said he was “troubled” by the text messages and additional items found in Bull’s home.
“I do feel at this time that I don’t want to take any chances,” Nakazato said. “I find him to be a danger” to the community, but not a flight risk.
Nakazato said Bull “does have a strong propensity of wanting to meet with young children and possibly do some things that we don’t want with children.”
Wolfsen, who declined to comment outside the courtroom, told the magistrate that his client did not want to take a copy of the complaint against him to his lock-up because of the content.
Eimiller said after the hearing that in light of publicity about the case Wednesday, authorities received some information as to possible identification of three Latino boys depicted in images in the company of Bull and another male, all of whom have not been identified.
The images of the three boys appear to have been taken inside the bedroom and living room of Bull’s residence and the residential community pool where he lives.
The boys, Bull and the unidentified older man were all were partially clothed in most of the images, according to the FBI, and in some images, Bull has his arms wrapped around the bodies of the boys while they sat on his lap.
Eimiller said those images “are not porn in nature,” because the children are partially clothed in bathing suits, but they raise concern in light of all the evidence collected.
Read the original story here: Tip From Teen Boy’s Father Led To Arrest Of OC Teacher
Indiana Man Headed to Prison After Driving to Meet Minor for Sex
An Indiana man is headed to prison after driving to Bowling Green to meet a minor for sex.
24-year-old Michael Patterson was sentenced to 3 years and 10 months after he admitted he drove across state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
Patterson made several phone calls and engaged in explicit Internet chat with a volunteer from Perverted Justice in 2007.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online predators.
HONOLULU – Attorney General Mark Bennett announced today that on September 8, 2008, Tyler Michael D.S. Wong, aka “michael1977onoahu”, was sentenced by the Honorable Randall K.O. Lee to 10 years in prison for the offense of Electronic Enticement of a Child in the First Degree. Mr. Wong is also required by law to register as a sex offender.
Wong used the internet to solicit a Honolulu Police Department detective, whom he thought was a 13 year-old girl, to meet him for sex at the old Kamehameha Swap Meet. He was arrested by police officers when he arrived at the meeting place. Wong pled no contest to the charge on May 15, 2008.
Because this case arose before May 16, 2008, Judge Lee had the option to sentence Wong to probation with one year in prison, but chose to impose the maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Under a new law (Act 80, Session Laws of Hawai`i 2008), courts must impose a mandatory sentence of 10 years in prison on Internet predators who commit Electronic Enticement of a Child in the First Degree after May 16, 2008.
“We will continue to seek out and prosecute Internet predators to the fullest extent of the law,” Bennett stated. “Predators like Mr. Wong who are convicted, will receive mandatory 10-year sentences.”
Because of the serious nature of this offense that targets children as victims, the Attorney General reminds parents and young people to be mindful of the potential for abuse of the Internet. To aid the public in recognizing the dangers of the Internet and to help them take protective measures, the Hawai`i Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force has created a web site, at www.hicac.com, that contains Internet safety tips and provides information on how to report any suspected illegal Internet activity that targets children.
Anyone having information concerning possible Internet crimes against children should call investigators at the Department of the Attorney General at (808) 586-1240.
