Wacky Internet Predator Wednesday: Issue #48
Some weeks are huge… but other weeks are slow. Still, I maintain that not a week goes by where there isn’t AT LEAST ONE predator arrest.
This past week, on Friday, a 32-year-old church music director from Michigan was arrested for driving to Ohio and sexually assaulting two girls he met on MySpace, aged 12 and 13. The thing that you have to keep in mind here is that there are no details of how the guy was caught. Did the girls tell on him? It doesn’t say. But one has to assume that the two girls that met this older guy online agreed to meet him in real life – at least up to the point o getting in his car. There is no mention that they were abducted or kidnapped. These TWO LITTLE GIRLS CONSENTED to meeting this guy in real life. I guarantee they consented to the sexual acts as well, at the very least, at the time the acts occurred. Maybe they felt bad afterwards and told a parent… who knows. But they met the guy online, agree to meet him in real life, got into the car with him…
That is what parents need to understand. Don’t be afraid of the predators – be afraid of your own kid’s stupidity!!! Have a talk with them before something like this happens… this was 100% preventable through talking and monitoring internet activity (with PC Pandora monitoring software)…
June 13, 2009
FBI: Mich. man planned assault, drove to Ohio
Associated PressTOLEDO, Ohio – A church music director from Michigan has been arrested for driving to Ohio with plans to assault two girls he met on MySpace.
FBI Special Agent Michael Brooks says 32-year-old David Zobel of Ann Arbor, Mich., was charged Friday with interstate travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. He faces 30 years in prison if convicted.
The girls, aged 12 and 13, say Zobel picked them up in Xenia and drove them to Toledo, 170 miles to the north, and assaulted them in a parking garage. Authorities found a camera containing sexually explicit images of the girls at Zobel’s house.
Brooks says Zobel denies the assault. The FBI did not say whether he had an attorney.
The University of Michigan’s Web site listed Zobel as a pianist with the men’s glee club and music director at a church in Ypsilanti. The page was later removed.
