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2009 News of Doom Score

U.S. Score
  1. California, 143
  2. Texas, 131
  3. Pennsylvania, 107
  4. Florida, 84
  5. New York, 80
  6. Oklahoma, 44
  7. Ohio, 42
  8. Massachusetts, 35
  9. Alabama, 30
  10. Oregon, 29
  11. Indiana, 27
  12. Michigan, 23
  13. Virginia, 20
  14. Arkansas, 19
  15. Georgia, 18
  16. WA, AZ, 17
  17. Louisiana, 13
  18. MD, IL, 14
  19. Wisconsin, 12
  20. Delaware, 10
  21. Missouri, 9
  22. AK, SC, 8
  23. KY, MN, NC, TN, NV, 7
  24. New Hampshire 6
  25. West Virginia, 5
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Thursday
19Nov2009

Thomas Pennycuff charged with child solicitation

Ark City man charged in online solicitation:

Police: AC man sought out teen girls for sex:

With a name like Pennycuff you would think this guy would be a creepy clown. He is in a way. He's a creepy assclown.

25-year-old Thomas Pennycuff of Arkansas City, Kansas has been arrested for soliciting underage girls for sex over MySpace. Posing as a 17-year-old named Tom he allegedly contacted 80 girls in Ark. City and Wichita online soliciting 13 of them for sex. How much free time does this guy have?

Lucikly one girl had the wherewithal to contact her school's resource officer who helped police launch an investigation into Pennycuff.

Tom was sent a photo of an employee with the Wichita-Sedgwick County Exploited and Missing Child Unit, taken when she was 14 or 15. When Tom asked how old she was, she said 15, the affidavit said.

This led to a meeting with what Pennycuff allegedly thought was a 15-year-old girl but since you're reading this here you know it was actually the police. After the arrest Pennycuff claimed he was having a heart attack because as we all know most 25-year-old guys with out of control libidos are constantly having heart attacks.

Police are wondering if Pennycuff had any additional victims...

"Please ask your daughters if they have had any contact online or otherwise with Thomas Pennycuff. If they have, please contact the Arkansas City Police Department Investigations Division at 620-441-4435."

Saturday
14Nov2009

California man sentenced for soliciting

Dublin man sentenced for using Internet to solicit a minor for sex:

Back in March 50-year-old Jerald P. D'Souza of Dublin, CA was arrested for soliciting a 13-year-old girl over MySpace and Yahoo. Of course the 'girl' was actually working for the FBI. When he showed up for his rendezvous in Truckee, CA he was equipped with booze, condoms and a webcam.

In August he pleaded guilty to federal charges and was sentenced to 10 years in the federal pen. After he completes his sentence he'll be deported to India. Instead of deporting sex offenders back to their country of origin can't we just send them to someplace like Afghanistan or Somalia or something?

Thursday
12Nov2009

NC man pleads guilty to Xanga charges

North Carolina man pleads guilty to incident with Moline girl:

I can't even remember the last time I posted a Xanga story. I want to say it was 2006 some time. I didn't even know that people still used it.

Anyway 51-year-old John P. Krauss of Charlotte, NC pleaded guilty in federal court to child pornography charges.

It seems that in 2007 a 15-year-old girl from Moline, Ill. visited his Xanga blog and the pair began corresponding and later he requested nude pictures and videos of the girl.

Tuesday
10Nov2009

More on the Australian Facebook rape page

Facebook fury: university 'failed' on harassment:

As it turns out the page had something to do with a football team from St Paul's College.

Anyway the page was somehow supposed to encourage the team to be more competitive on the field. Probably something along the lines of how they were going to rape the competition except probably not as eloquent.

Athletes, no matter what country they're from, have never been the most sensitive bunch. Like I said before it's tasteless but the situation is way overblown.

 

Monday
09Nov2009

Facebook used to find firework killers

Teens arrested over firework killing after Facebook search:

A trio if teenage yobs from Bodmin, Cornwall, England must have thought it would be funny if they allegedly threw some fireworks into the mail slot of 59-year-old Mary Fox. What was not so funny was that the firework caused the house to catch fire killing Ms. Fox and sending her 17-year-old son to the hospital.

Locals posted the names of the perpetrators on Facebook which led police to arrest them.

I hope the British courts prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law but sometimes their fullest extent isn't enough.

Sunday
08Nov2009

Australian pro-rape Facebook page

Pro-rape Facebook group condemned:

University students' 'pro-rape' page on Facebook:

Pro-rape Facebook group appalling: uni:

Elite college students proud of 'pro-rape' Facebook page:

There has been a flap recently in Australia about a group of past and present students from the all male St Paul's College at Sydney University who allegedly created a Facebook group that has been branded as pro-rape.

The group, which no longer exists, was called 'Define Statutory' and was tagged as pro-rape and anti-consent.

Every article I've read about this has not talked to the creators or members of the group. The intelligentsia of Australia are going off like these are a group of rapists who are sharing ideas and encouraging each other to commit rape.

Personally, as of right now, I think the only real crime here is a crime against taste. While of course I think rape is one of the most heinous crimes that could be committed I think this is much ado about nothing. I think this is nothing more than what I call bad frat boy humor. It's just a bunch of douchebag college boys trying to be funny and drawing attention to themselves.

Saturday
07Nov2009

England fails to ban pedophiles from Facebook and MySpace

Bid to block paedophiles from Facebook fails:

A move to keep pedophiles and sex offenders off of Facebook and MySpace by the British government has failed due to 'human rights' concerns.

The Home Office announced in April that it was taking steps to restrict registered sex offenders from accessing the internet sites used by millions of children every day. The new law would have applied to more than 30,000 sex offenders on the register. Failure to comply would have carried up to five years' imprisonment.

But it has now emerged that the Home Office has been forced to climb down amid concerns that the plan is incompatible with the right to privacy.

How about the right for children not to be approached by sex offenders on the internet, or the right not to be molested or even the right not to be killed by these scumbags?

I'm going to say what I'm sure most British people are thinking. These scum are not deserving of human rights. In my opinion they're less than human and not deserving of the rights that the rest of us enjoy freely.

You would think that in a country where 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall was killed by registered sex offender Peter Chapman after he posed as a 17-year-old on Facebook that the government would be more open to treating these bastards like the scum that they are.

Saturday
07Nov2009

Vanessa George named names

Vanessa George: Parents to choose whether they are told if their child was abused at nursery:

Vanessa George is one of the four from the UK who were involved in a Facebook child porn and abuse ring. She was the worst of them all considering she was a nanny at a nursery and abused some of the children and photographed it.

Before she was not cooperating and would not tell the court the names of the children she abused. Now it seems she has named names as the court has given the parents of the children from the nursery the option to know whether or not their children were abused.

Personally I would want to know just for medical reasons.

Thanks to Caitlin for the tip.

Saturday
07Nov2009

Texas man sent nude pics to 16-year-old girl on MySpace

Cypress Man Indicted, Police Say He Targeted Teen on Myspace:

23-year-old Jonathan Martin of Cypress, Texas was indicted for having explicit chat with and sent nude pictures to a 16-year-old girl that he met on MySpace. He allegedly showed up at the girl's house as well in Bryan, Texas.

I found a MySpace for a 23-year-old Jonathan Martin of Cypress, Texas and if it was the correct MySpace it's not like the guy can't get laid considering he has a pregnant partner that he professes his undying devotion to.

So not only did he possibly betray his significant other but he may have also betrayed his unborn child.

I fully expect to hear how nice of guy he was though.

Friday
06Nov2009

Green Bay MySpace date raper

Green Bay man charged with drugging, raping woman he met on MySpace:

Police in De Pere, Wisc. arrested 29-year-old Leroy Hewuse of Green Bay on charges of raping a woman he met over MySpace.

Hewuse allegedly met the woman on Myspace then met her at a bar where he went by the name of Dan, convinced her he ran a massage business, offered her 'employment', went back to her place so he could use her computer, then offered her a massage and a 'vitamin'. The next thing the victim knows she wakes up with no clothes on and puking her guts up.

You know for all the money and effiort he put into his plot he could have gotten himself a hooker, or a haircut, or a gym membership.

Police believe he may also be behind other attacks in the area.

Guth said investigators believe there may be other victims involved. He asks that anyone involved in a similar situation call De Pere police at (920) 339-4078.