Arrest for teen chatroom lure
A QUEENSLAND man has been charged with internet child sex offences after allegedly using a chatroom to plan a meeting with a teenage girl. However, a covert police officer was posing as the teenage girl in a bid to catch internet sex offenders.Police said the man, 28, from Mackay, was charged with procuring a child using the Internet, four counts of exposing a child to an indecent matter using the Internet and one count of possession of tainted property.Police said the...
Teen Chatroom Leicester Mercury: Protect your youngsters
I went into a chatroom posing as a young teenage girl. I wanted to see how long it took before I was made to feel uneasy, if at all. I didn't have long to wait.Within seconds of logging on to a popular, easy-to-find chatroom as Claire13, indicating I was a 13-year-old girl, I was singled out for a private conversation by "Patrick". Even though the chatroom was for "people aged under 19 only", I had no idea how old Patrick was,...
Teen Chatroom Highland Park man gets date in California court
A married Highland Park man who went on a cross-country trip with a 15-year-old Pennsylvania girl he met on the Internet is scheduled to appear in court today in California. Chris Ervin, 30, will appear in Lemoore Municipal Court for a pretrial conference. On Monday, while in court, he asked to be sent to Pennsylvania to face a felony charge of interfering with the custody of a child, but he was denied that request until he got a lawyer. Lawrence Meyer, who has since been...
Teen Chatroom TENN. MAN GUILTY OF ENTICING WR GIRL VIA INTERNET ONLINE, PIERCE PASED AS A HIGH-SCHOL FOOTBALL PLAYER
- A Tennessee man accused of having an online romance with a Warner Robins teen-ager was found guilty Wednesday by a Houston County jury.The first Internet-related jury conviction in Houston County history, according to District Attorney Kelly Burke.Gary Wayne Pierce, 37, was convicted of enticing a child for indecent purposes and contributing to the delinquency of a minor after he provided a 14-year-old girl with pornographic material over the Internet, had sexual conversations with...
Defendant tells of fall-out with boy
A man who is accused of grooming a boy he met in an Internet gay teen chatroom told a court yesterday that he had lots of young friends.Michael Britton, 51, who bought the youngster a £2, 500 motor scooter, Champagne and cake for his 16th birthday, said that he was very generous, but that sometimes people took advantage of him Mr Britton, a petrol pump attendant, said that the Darlington boy was supposed to repay the scooter loan at £10 to £15 a week,...