I cannot stress this enough: THESE GUYS DO EXIST! Parents, you MUST know who your kids are talking to online. You have to monitor their internet activity vigilantly. You have to have a program like PC Pandora 6.0 on any computer your child uses.

Also included are a sentencing and a story involving a Craigslist scam… Check out the briefs below and CLICK THE HEADLINES to read the full stories!

HAPPY ST. PATTY’S DAY!

Not the aforementioned Craigslist story, this is a different one where a 40-year-old RSO in California answered an ad on Craigslist in the personals that advertised a 13-year-old in need of help.

March 10, 2010
Huntington Beach Police Arrest Anaheim Man in Underage Sex Internet Sting
Dolores Barr, Editor and Publisher, OC180NEWS.com

When 40 year old Anaheim registered sex offender David Walker Bryan, arrived at the location where he thought he was going to meet a 13 year old girl for sex, instead, he met the officers of the Huntington Beach Police Department, HBPD. Rather than acting upon pedophilic tendencies, Bryan now is in jail facing charges which could land him in state prison for up to 5 years. He pleaded not guilty.

This is the scam story: a 20-year-old woman in Texas answered an ad on Craigslist looking for a lead singer in a Christian praise and worship band. She found a sex predator instead of a band on the other end…

Mar 11, 2010
Denton Woman Lured In By Craigslist Sex Predator
By Carol Cavazos, KTVT-TV

A Denton woman has a warning for Christians using Craigslist: Watch out for sexual predators disguised as the faithful. She said she was lured into someone’s net through an ad for a Christian praise and worship band.

A doctor in California who was busted on Dateline’s “To Catch a Predator” series was sentenced last week – more than 3 years after being caught! The vigilante group that Dateline employed to catch the scumbags is called Innocent Justice… Ironic then that it took over 3 years for justice to serve this guy…

March 12, 2010
Doctor caught in TV molest sting gets jail
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer

A Piedmont doctor whose 2006 arrest in a police sting was filmed by a television network has been sentenced to two months in jail for attempted child molesting. Maurice Wolin must register as a sex offender annually for life and will be on probation for three years, Judge Arthur Wick of Sonoma County Superior Court said at a hearing Wednesday.

A 28-year-old soldier in Colorado was arrested in an online sting op… in uniform!

March 12, 2010
Soldier arrested for Internet luring of a child
From KUSA-TV/ NBC 9

ADAMS COUNTY – A Fort Carson soldier was arrested Wednesday and after he drove from Colorado Springs to a home in Adams County to have a sexual encounter with an underage girl, according to the Adams County Sheriff’s Office. Sergeant Brian Kelly Wells, 28, of Colorado Springs, was arrested in an online operation targeting Internet predators.

A 15-year-old Kansas girl willingly (key word) had sex with a 22-year-old Missouri man she met on Facebook. The parents called the cops but as of no, no charges are filed. Still… do you know who your kids are meeting online and having sex with?

March 15, 2010
Police Investigate Teen’s Facebook Affair (VIDEO)
Investigators Say 15-Year-Old Girl Had Sex With Belton Man
From KMBC-TV/ ABC 9

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Police in Overland Park said they are investigating a 15-year-old’s affair with a 22-year-old Belton, Mo., man after the pair connected through Facebook.
Investigators said the pair decided to meet in person after they developed an online relationship.

A 38-year-old North Carolina man met a 16-year-old girl from Georgia on MySpace… the two met up in real life (she consented) and then he kidnapped her.

March 16, 2010
Man charged with kidnapping girl, 16
By Steve Lyttle, Charlotte Observer

A Mooresville man is in jail charged with kidnapping a 16-year-old Georgia girl he met on MySpace. Detectives with the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office say William David Williams II, 38, has been charged with abduction of children. The 16-year-old, who says Williams had a sexual relationship with her, also is jailed in Iredell County, charged with possession of stolen goods.

Not only do 75% of 12-18 year olds have profiles, but many times they have multiple profiles; they have the ones their parents know about and can inspect and they have the ones that the parents know nothing about where they can pretend to be older and sexually promiscuous – or perhaps use it to cyberbully others.

Either way, do you know if your child has a social networking profile? Do you know how many they have? Do you really know how they are portraying themselves?

If you even slightly hesitated to answer any of these with anything but a hefty “YOU BETTER BELIEVE I DO!” well, my friends, you need PC Pandora computer monitoring software.

The fact is, most parents have no idea (even if they think they do) about their child’s online life. Kids don’t like to share that information with their parents. They think it’s totally private and for their eyes only… which is a joke! It’s completely public information and chances are a predator is on their friends list and now knows more about your child’s online life than you do!

But you can change all that by simply monitoring their online activity.

Read this, have a Guinness and HAPPY ST. PATRICK’s DAY! The Wacky Internet Predator post will follow this afternoon…

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March 11, 2010
You’re sure your child has no social networking page?
Written by J. Patrick Eaken, The Press

Seventy-four percent of 12-18 year olds have a profile on a social networking site, a Kaiser Family Foundation study concluded.

“Parents that think their kids don’t might be surprised that their kids do,” Oregon Schools information technology director Nathan Quigg said. “Most kids have switched over to Facebook because once Grandma and Ma got on MySpace, it was no longer hip. I’m sure once there is something new, they’ll switch again.”

Facebook has a rule that a child must be 13-years-old to have an account, but that is not always the case.

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March 12, 2010
Internet safety just got “fun”
By Steven Pope, KIDK-TV

REXBURG – There are currently 260-million pages of porn on the world wide web. Some say no big deal, but members of the Rexburg community are speaking up.

Craig Kobia has held numerous anti-porn conferences across Eastern Idaho. But to engage everybody on the subject is a little tricky. That’s where a Volkswagen-limousine comes in handy.