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Saturday
06Feb2010

Classified crimes: Online sex solicitations

This is the interview I did with KVBC Channel 3 in Las Vegas about sexual predators on Craigslist.

The hair may be shorter but it is still awesome.

Friday
05Feb2010

Joseph Brooks out on bail

'You Light Up My Life' Songwriter Makes Bail in Sexual Assault Case:

I originally posted about Joseph Brooks here and here. He's the 70-year-old guy who wrote the song You Light Up My Life. He's also accused of advertising for actresses on craigslist and 'forcing himself' on them. By forcing himself they mean date raping. Again for some reason the media doesn't like to use the word rape for some reason.

Anyway the Oscar award winning alleged date rapist is out on bail. He's accused of raping anywhere between 11 and 13 women. Nothing like allowing an alleged serial rapist out on the streets.

Wednesday
03Feb2010

All he wanted for Christmas was a hot young boy

Bail lowered in sex solicitation case:

You know how when someone says if you look up such and such in the dictionary it would have his picture? I think if you looked up child molester in the dictionary it would have this guy's picture.

Anyway, Webster over there is 54-year-old Richard E. Woodward of Brunswick, Maryland. He's been arrested on charges of sexual solicitation of a minor and child pornography. It seems that he allegedly posted an ad on craigslist that said "all I want (for) Christmas is a young hot boy,". 

Someone on craigslist tipped off police who posed as a 14-year-old boy. Woodward allegedly sent the 'boy' a link to a website containing child porn.

Notice that someone called police about the ad. Notice there was no mentioned of the ad being flagged on craigslist. I wouldn't really call that 'community policing' as craigslist would refer to it.

Thanks to Bay for the tip.

Sunday
31Jan2010

Kijiji predator gets time served

Man sentenced to time served on child luring charge:

 In the 3rd story I've posted recently (1st, 2nd) another Canadian internet child predator gets a slap on the wrist. In this case less than a slap on the wrist. 

41-year-old Christopher Nickel of St. Catharines, Ontario was given time served for trying to sexually lure a teen girl through the eBay owned Kijiji who was advertising for baby sitting and house cleaning.

Nickel spent 5 months in jail while awaiting trial then spent some time on house arrest.

Judge Joseph Nadel said this about Nickel...

Nadel told Nickel he wasn't sending him back to jail, "and you should be grateful," he said, adding a year "is a good sentence."

Nadel ordered strict probationary terms, including Nickel's registration in the sex-offender registry, plus prohibitions on Internet use and being around minors.

He also scolded Nickel, telling him to find work and get any needed counselling.

"What makes us different from the animals is our ability to be self-aware (and) control our animal urges," he told him.

"You've got three years to turn your life around and get some help in doing so," Nadel said.

"I'd be very grateful not to have to see you again as an accused person."

If you didn't want to see him again as an accused person then you should have sent him to jail.

Saturday
30Jan2010

Md. craigslist predator given 18 years

Craigslist assailant gets 18-year term:

I originally posted about Kelvin Cousar here. He was arrested back in May of last year for shoving a gun into the mouth of a craigslist hooker and making her perform what was then called an 'oddly grotesque' act.

This past week he was sentenced to 18 years behind bars for his actions.

I don't know what the grotesque act was but it must have been pretty bad for the judge to say this...

"The crimes committed on [the victim] were crimes against human dignity. Your wife may have forgiven you, but society does not,"

You hear that craigslist? You have people on your site using it to commit crimes against human dignity. When are you going to own up to the social responsibility you claim to have?

Thursday
28Jan2010

Backpage 'escort' kept kid in closet

Bruised toddler home alone in locked closet:

Mom who left son in closet advertised herself as an escort:

The lady over there with the curious blemishes on her face is 21-year-old Corinna Davis of Mesa, Arizona.

A West Mesa Justice Court constable was serving an eviction notice on the residence however no one appeared to be home. However the constable found a chair wedged up against a door. when he removed the chair he found a 2-year-old boy on a mattress in the closet.

Davis claims the boy was in there while she 'worked'. Her work seems to be as an 'escort' that advertises on the Village Voice Media owned backpage.com. She must not have been too good at that job since she was being evicted or maybe the money went somewhere else.

Do you think that sore is from meth or the herp?

By the way you wouldn't think that the 2-year-old locked in a closet is a victim of the victimless crime would you?

Thursday
28Jan2010

Recent weed busts on craigslist

Rochester man charged with selling marijuana shipped in from California:

Not guilty plea entered in pot-for-guitar trade:

First off save your 'Legalize it' diatribes because as of right now it's illegal so deal with it.

In Phelps, NY 40-year-old Leonardo D. Gaskin and 17-year-old Devonte White were arrested for selling marijuana on craigslist after getting it shipped to them from a California dispensary.

In Chino, California 62-year-old Joel Kelly Castle was arrested for trading weed for a guitar through craigslist.

So illegal transactions were being made on craigslist and the community policing didn't catch them?

I'm shocked. No...that's not the word. What's the opposite of shocked? Oh yeah, not shocked at all.

Sunday
24Jan2010

Huntington Beach PD capture another craigslist predator

Bartender accused of soliciting 13-year-old:

Police in Huntington Beach, California have captured another alleged child predator on craigslist using the exact same tactic if not the exact same ad.

This time it was 27-year-old Gabriel Preto who responded to an ad where he thought he was going to pay for sex with a 13-year-old girl. And just like the last time the girl was in fact the Huntington Beach PD.

Hopefully the Huntington Bach police will keep taking dangerous craigslist predators like this off the streets.

Now if only the courts would keep them behind bars.

Friday
22Jan2010

California craigslist attempted child rapist arrested

Brea man charged with attempted lewd act with teen:

Yet another child predator fished out of the craigslist sewers.

In Huntington Beach, California police arrested 25-year-old Venson Magbojos Villapando for allegedly setting up a meeting with a 13-year-old girl over craigslist in order to have sex with her.

Villapando was allegedly going to pay the girl $100 for sex.

Guess who the girl really was. That's right, the Huntington Beach PD.

More ads that are being missed by craigslist's 'community policing'.

Sunday
17Jan2010

Kijiji child predator gets slap on the wrist

Sex offender pleads guilty in kids' case:

Canada, I know you have a reputation to maintain as the friendly polite country but do you really have to extend that to child molesters?

Case in point, the story of 40-year-old Daryl Koluk of Hamilton, Ontario. In 2001 he was sentenced to a mere 6 months for sexually abusing children. He was already on the sex offender registry when he took an ad out on the eBay owned Kijiji last year advertising help cleaning his apartment. So who answered the ad? A 12-year-old boy and his two friends, that's who.

You know I'm all about teaching kids the value of a dollar, or in this case a Loonie, but who the hell lets their kids go clean the apartment of some stranger from a website?

Anyway, Koluk offered the kids more money of they would lay on his bed. One of the boys agreed and Koluk gave him oral sex for $40. It happened four more times as well earning the victim $200. And oh yeah, they did this in front of the other kids.

Police found a picture of one of the victims who was 11 and I quote "shown in bondage gear, with a ball stuffed in his mouth, a steel collar around his neck and his body tied up with rope."

Koluk pleaded guilty to child molestation charges and what do you think he got for his troubles? He was sentenced to only four years in prison.

Now I'm not usually one to believe in conspiracies but why do these ridiculously short sentences keep getting handed out to dangerous child molesters. Is it maybe because this kind of wretched behavior goes on within the walls of the private lives of government officials and they don't want to damn themselves to a long prison term? And I don't just mean Canada either. It also goes on in the US, the UK, Australia and most of the so called civilized world.

These types of officials should be investigated but to coin a cliche who watches the watchmen?